JIMMIE JOHNSON/No.48 Chevrolet finally put the road race monkey off his back Sunday at Infineon Raceway for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota/Save Mart 350 race at Infineon Raceway. It was his first road course victory in 17 starts, and his fifty-first career win, putting him tenth in overall NASCAR Cup wins. Johnson started second in […]
Month: June 2010
LUG NUTS, GREASE AND A BETTER VIEW
While the 66 degree F temperature at Infineon Raceway didn’t reach the forecast 80 degrees, it was still nice and warm with blue skies and a bit more of a breeze. The drivers had their meeting, their Driver Intros and then the obligatory parade lap around the course in a convoy of red, white and […]
SUNDAY IN SONOMA
It’s a beautiful morning at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma CA for the first road course race of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule. Everything is a somewhat relaxed, but taking care of business mode for the noon Toyota/Save Mart 350 race. At 9:30 am PT it’s already close to 60 warm degrees F with […]
HOME ON THE RANGE
French Canadian driver, ANDREW RANGER/No.35 Chevrolet, led twice, for 17 laps and won the NASCAR K & N Series Thunder Valley Casino Resort 200 Race Saturday afternoon at Infineon Raceway. He had such a large margin ahead of PAULIE HARRAKA/No./12 Toyota that he still had a cushion of 6.059 seconds when he coasted to his […]
AUSSIE AUSSIE OY! OY! OY!
Saturday morning’s weather at Infineon Raceway was warmer (63F), less breezy, with hazy blue skies. The NASCAR Sprint Cup teams had two morning practice sessions. MARCOS AMBROSE/No.47 Toyota was the fastest in both sessions, turning his fastest lap in the first 45-minute practice. Now the Sprint Cup drivers are through for the day, giving them […]
KASEY KAHNE – WILD CHILD
Friday afternoon at Infineon Raceway, KASEY KAHNE drove the wheels off his red No.9 Ford to grab the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota/Save Mart 350 Race. Kahne, last year’s Infineon victor, turned a lap of lap was 93.893 mph/76.30. The ride looked like it was on the wild side, but Kahne said he […]
AMIABLE AUSSIE SHOWS THE WAY • FUELISH GORDON? • ROAD RACE RINGERS
It was cool (59 degrees F), breezy and partly cloudy for the first 90-minute NASCAR Sprint Cup practice session Friday noon at Infineon Raceway. Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 Race has drawn 46 entries for the 43-car grid. MARCOS AMBROSE/No.47 Toyota was overall fastest with a final time of 1:16.375/93.800 mph. He went to the top […]
GILLILAND GOES
It was a cold and foggy Friday morning at Infineon Raceway for the morning practices of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West for Saturday’s Thunder Valley Casino Resort 200 Race. DAVID GILLILAND/No.45 Dodge was fastest in both sessions. In the early morning session, his time was 1:18.992/90.693 mph, and faster in the mid-morning session at […]
IT’S EASY BEING GREEN
Among the familiar race cars at the inaugural Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Infineon Raceway this weekend was the lime green/navy blue 1971 Alfa Romeo GTV, with door-filling numbers. The iconic graphics began with STEVE GRISWOLD of Berkeley who originally started racing Alfa’s in the sixties, with #58 as his number. When Norman took over […]
EARLE’S INAUGURAL EVENT
Sunday’s weather was again warm, sunny and breezy at Infineon Raceway for the ‘First Annual Sonoma Motorsports Festival’ – an inaugural event – put on as a joint venture by STEVE EARLE’s General Racing and the race track. Saturday’s crowd was up over previous years when Earle ran the Wine Country Classic…which had a 24-year […]