| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - November 28, 2011: FORMULA ONE BRAZIL SEASON FINALE
At the end of another season playing bridesmaid Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber got to claim one for himself Sunday, winning the Formula One 2011 season finale in Brazil after taking advantage of teammate and reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel's gearbox issues midway through the race. Vettel managed to limp his Red Bull home in second, while McLaren's Jenson Button muscled his way into third place late in the day to nab the last podium spot and lock up second in driver points.
11/28/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-2011 LA AUTO SHOW PREVIEW
With SEMA fresh in our blood from a couple weeks back, we are in a full auto-show state of mind, today charging camera batteries and clearing memory cards for Wednesday's Los Angeles Auto Show media assault. This year the expo will exceed 50 vehicle debuts and 22 manufacturer press conferences when it opens to the media November 16 to 17 and general public November 18 through 27, and when we show up Wednesday morning Mazda President and CEO Takashi Yamanouchi will kick off the press days with the Motor Press Guild (MPG) keynote address.
11/15/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - November 14, 2011: F1 ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX - WRC, SUPER GT, NHRA, GLOBAL TIME ATTACK SEASON FINALES
McLaren ace and 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton picked up his third victory of the 2011 F1 season on Sunday, taking advantage of an early exit by pole-sitter and 2011 champ Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing to take the win. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso finished in second place, splitting the two podium-sitting McLarens, with 2009 champ Jenson Button in third.
11/14/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - November 7, 2011: FIA GT1 SEASON FINALE - 29 MILLION TUNE IN TO FORMULA DRIFT INDONESIA
Francesco Pastorelli and Yelmer Buurman in the Exim Bank Team China Corvette No.11 completed the double on Sunday by winning the weekend's Championship Race in an incident-filled finale to the 2011 season in San Luis. The victory for the GT1 debutants came after they took top honors in the Qualifying Race on Saturday.
11/7/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - October 31, 2011: INAUGURAL F1 INDIA - NHRA COUNTDOWN RD. 5 LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Current World Champion Sebastian Vettel aced the inaugural Grand Prix of India on Sunday, continuing to steadily clean up in Formula One with his Red Bull Racing machine. True to his dominant form this year, he beat to the stripe McLaren's Jenson Button in second by a convincing 8.4 seconds, picking up win number 11 for 2011 with two rounds yet to go. Vettel and Button were joined on the podium by Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in third
10/31/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - October 24, 2011: CITROEN CLINCHES 7TH TITLE AT WRC SPAIN - GRC REVEALS 2012 DATES
Seven-time WRC champ Sebastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena broke their three-race winless streak with this past weekend's triumph in the Rally of Spain, Loeb's points helping him edge clear of Mikko Hirvonen in the race for the 2011 driver's title. In their works Citroen DS3 WRC, Loeb and Elena maintained an overnight advantage into Sunday for Loeb's seventh win in Spain and fifth of the season. In doing so they helped Citroen wrap up the manufacturers' title for a seventh time
10/24/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - October 17, 2011: DAN WHELDON PERISHES IN INDYCAR SEASON FINALE - F1 KOREA - S ROAD MOLA NISSAN GT-R CLINCHES SUPER GT TITLES - NHRA COUNTDOWN RD. 4 FIREBIRD RACEWAY
The 300-mile World Championships on LVMS' 1.5-mile tri-oval superspeedway were to be IndyCar's 2011 grand finale, complete with a multi-million dollar payoff promotion to commemorate the inaugural running of the event. Instead, Sunday afternoon turned into one of the series' darkest chapters, the race called after just a dozen laps after a horrific 15-car accident decimated the field and ultimately took the life of two-time Indy 500 winner –including this year's - and 2005 series champion, Dan Wheldon.
10/17/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - October 10, 2011: YOSHIHARA CROWNED FORMULA D CHAMP, McQUARRIE WINS HOUSE OF DRIFT SEASON FINALE - VETTEL CLINCHES F1 TITLE IN JAPAN
Ridiculous - it's the only way we can describe the spectacle we saw Saturday night at Toyota Speedway of Irwindale, as in a ridiculous amount of fans putting out a ridiculous amount of energy at a season finale that had a ridiculously close points battle on the line and some of the most unreal driving we have ever seen.
10/10/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - October 3, 2011: WRC FRANCE - SUPER GT AUTOPOLIS - PETIT LE MANS - INDYCAR KENTUCKY
Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia piloted their Citroen DS3 WRC to victory in this past weekend's Rallye de France Alsace for the first time, following a nail-biting finish to the world championship qualifier near Strasbourg.
10/3/2011 - Full Article
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| Headlines-Monday Finish Line - September 26, 2011: F1 SINGAPORE - NHRA COUNTDOWN RD. 2 TEXAS MOTORPLEX - XDC FINALS
Points leader and Red Bull Racing ace Sebastian Vettel did everything within his power to close in on his second straight world title this past weekend, capturing both pole position and the win in the fourth annual Singapore Grand Prix, round 14 of 19 on the F1 calendar. But by finishing in second place, McLaren's Jenson Button forestalled the inevitable, pushing the championship decider to the next round in Japan.
9/26/2011 - Full Article
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