Motor Sports
If there was a Hemi-powered Chrysler on the drag strip in the mid-to-late 1960s, you had better pray to the heavens that you wouldn’t have to square off against it at the starting line.
With the eyes of a nation on the auto industry, the North American International Auto Show (Jan. 17-25) in Detroit is an indicator of what’s to come.
SPRINT CUP
Las Vegas Motor Speedway opens the drag-racing season this weekend with its annual Blast-Off Testing session.
The start of the motor sports season is on the horizon, and the outlook is bleak.
In 1962, Carroll Shelby envisioned building a lightweight roadster with a powerful American V-8 under the hood. That vision became the Cobra sports car.
In town for a limited 72-hour engagement, the 2010 Lotus Evora was unveiled in December at Norm Baker Motor Co.
They gathered to say goodbye and good riddance to 2008, to consign a gloomy year to drunken oblivion and stumble into 2009 with hope for better times ahead.
Predicting what each month in 2009 will bring our local sports scene:
First General Motors cut ties with Tiger Woods. Now the troubled automaker is splitting with the Bronx Bombers.
Las Vegas headliner legend Paul Anka suffered a head wound that required two staples to close it as the result of a domestic scuffle last month, according to a celebrity Web site.
Running lap after monotonous lap is a necessary evil when fine-tuning a car, trying new parts or testing tires.
There are plenty of numbers to suggest 2008 could be the worst holiday for retailers since 1991.