 |  | | Monday Finish Line - July 21, 2008: Redline: Time Attack! Cali Speedway, F1 Germany | | | In front of possibly the largest tuner gathering at the erstwhile California Speedway since the JGTC rolled through in late 2004, Gary Sheehan in the Unlimited AWD GST Motorsports Subaru Impreza led competitors from all classes in a successful last-ditch effort to be crowned Overall Champion at Round 4 of the 2008 Redline: Time Attack series. On the Fontana, California track's Auto Competition Course - also known as the "roval" - in the final session of July 20th, Sheehan laid down an untouchable 1:38.395 for the victory, some three seconds faster than the next closest time. | | Full Article | | By: URC Staff - 7/21/2008 |
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - July 14, 2008: Formula D/Battle of the Imports Las Vegas, ALMS Lime Rock Park Toshiki Yoshioka won his first Formula DRIFT final on Saturday, taking out Dai Yoshihara and the Bridgestone/RMR Pontiac GTO at the inaugural Las Vegas Super Tuner Nationals in a thrilling match-up that went to One More Time. Yoshioka flicked his way into winner's circle with superior speed and angle behind the wheel of the Yokohama Toyota AE86 Corolla in a contest that featured several journeyman racers from Japan, including the champ. 7/14/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - July 7, 2008: British Grand Prix, Indy at The Glen McLaren's Lewis Hamilton delivered a rousing maiden British GP victory to an adoring hometown crowd at Silverstone on Sunday, dominating the wet race and crossing the stripe over a minute up on second-place finisher Nick Heidfeld in his BMW Sauber machine. Honda's Rubens Barrichello used his usual wet-track expertise to post a surprising third, his first top-three result since 2005 when he was still a Ferrari driver. 7/7/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - June 30, 2008: NHRA POWERade, Redline: Time Attack! Utah, BOTI Maryland Tyler McQuarrie and the CWest/Brian Crower Honda S2000 wowed 'em again at a Redline: Time Attack!, this time setting the pace at Round 3 Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, and earning both Unlimited RWD and Overall champion hardware, the second time he has done so this season. Second place overall went to Unlimited AWD victor Gary Sheehan in the GST Impreza, while third was U-AWD runner-up Luke Russell in the Top Speed Impreza. 6/30/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - June 23, 2008: NHRA POWERade Englishtown, F1 France They say that racing gives us the best and gives us the worst, and on Saturday at the NHRA SuperNationals in Englishtown fans saw the worst, as two-time Top Fuel champ and beloved Funny Car competitor Scott Kalitta was involved in a horrifying high-speed crash during the final round of qualifying.
NHRA emergency crews quickly pulled Kalitta from the car and he was transported to Old Bridge Township Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. Kalitta was just 46. 6/23/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - June 16, 2008: Formula D E-Town, WRC Turkey Round Three of the 2008 Formula Drift Championship was billed as the "Gauntlet", but it could have just as been fittingly named "Beat the Heat". Don't get us wrong - Englishtown's Raceway Park Road Course brought ample challenge, but the hot and humid weather conditions that greeted the nation's top sliders reached 80 degrees, and humidity made the real-feel somewhere 15 to 20 degrees more uncomfortable; a very real competition factor when you consider drivers are in full driving suits for stretches up to half an hour at a time. 6/16/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - June 9, 2008: F1 Canada, SPEED World Challenge at The Glen, NOPI Drift Ohio BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica collected what some may say is a long-overdue first Formula 1 victory this past Sunday in Montréal, Canada, after a pit row error by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton took himself and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen out of the race. Kubica's performance at a track where he crashed hard last year led a BMW 1-2, with teammate Nick Heidfeld coming home in second place. Red Bull Renault's David Coulthard rounded out the top three, pocketing his first points of the season and first podium in years. 6/9/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - June 2, 2008: Acropolis Rally, NOPI Drift Lake Erie Total-Citroen's Sebastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena won the 2008 Acropolis Rally of Greece Sunday afternoon to move into the lead of the Drivers' World Championship. The victory is Loeb's second at the Greek round of the WRC series, which he last won in 2005, and fifth in the seven rallies of the season so far. 6/2/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - May 26, 2008: Indy 500, F1 Monaco, Prodrift European Series, Grand-Am, World Challenge For the first time in six starts, Scott Dixon won the Indianapolis 500, racking up his 12th career victory in the IndyCar Series and second W this season behind the wheel of his Target Chip Ganassi Dallara-Honda. A pair of previous 500 runner-ups filled out the podium; Vitor Meira in the Delphi National Guard machine had a silver finish for the second time in his career (he was second in '05 too), while Andretti Green's Marco Andretti crossed the bricks in third (he saw checkers in second as a rookie in '06). 5/26/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - May 19, 2008: Rally Italy, ALMS/World Challenge Touring Cars Utah Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas played spoilers this weekend on a newly configured Miller Motorsports Park circuit, taking the spotlight away from Gil de Ferran and his new Acura team with a win at the Utah Grand Prix for team Penske and Porsche. Dumas' top-qualifying RS Spyder crossed the finish line 22.656 seconds ahead of Patrick Long in the second Penske Porsche, which he shared with Sascha Maassen. The de Ferran entry of Simon Pagenaud and the team owner placed third, some 29 seconds back. 5/19/2008 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - May 12, 2008: Formula D Georgia, F1 Turkey, 24 Hours of Lemons 2005 series champion Rhys Millen, in the Red Bull/RMR Pontiac Solstice GXP, won this Saturday's second round of the Formula D Championship after a close final against runner-up Michihiro Takatori in the Super Autobacs Nissan R34 Skyline, one that necessitated One-More-Time extra laps. Joining them on the podium was third-place finisher Ryan Tuerck, who backs up a NOPI Drift victory last week with his second podium in seven days. He used the Mobil 1/Maxxis/Gardella Racing Pontiac Solstice GXP to get by Dai Yoshihara and the Bridgestone/RMR Pontiac GTO. 5/12/2008 - Full Article
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