Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing News

A pair of history-making drivers are the latest stars to be added to the line-up for the 4th Annual PRI CKI All-Star Karting Classic as Buddy Rice and Graham Rahal will participate in this year's event to be being held in conjunction with the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show in Orlando, Dec.

UNSUNG heroes of grassroots sport in Rotherham enjoyed their moment in the spotlight with the Rotherham Sports Awards.

When you look up the definition of "rising star" in a motorsports dictionary, the name Graham Rahal will most likely come up.

The Comptroller for the State of Tennessee gave a brief address about the importance of using federal stimulus money before the Jackson Rotary Club, Wednesday.

Robert Doornbos, already drenched by rain, got the customary champagne shower after the race and he was a flying Dutchman who clearly enjoyed every drop.

Graham Rahal was honored this week with the IndyCar Series' Rising Star Award. He arguably was "Best in Class" as well.

Question: Your article on Sept. 25 stated clearly that Danica had signed for another year with Andretti in the IRL.

There is a perception in Champ Car that anything less than a podium finish for a Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing driver is an abject failure.

IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal got some hands-on instruction from The Golf Channel's Michael Breed during a recent visit to Walt Disney World's Palm Golf Course.

If you attended the previous Times-News Taste of Home Cooking Schools in 2006 and 2007, you probably noticed the bubbly redhead on stage.

IndyCar Series driver Tony Kanaan has become so addicted to Twitter that he is averaging 45 posts a day since mid-May. But it's gaining him fans.

MOTEGI, Japan - Scott Dixon claimed his fifth victory of the season, winning the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi to take over the IndyCar Series points lead with one race remaining.

"When jobs are slow--you have to find something to do," said Justin Wilson. So Wilson enrolled in ASU Newport's High Voltage Lineman program.

I didn't travel to Japan this year for the IndyCar Series race, so I decided to watch it live via IndyCar's Website on Sept.

Some have called it the Super Bowl of amateur sports car racing. Elkhart Lake's Road America is hosting this week's Sports Car Club of America National Championship Runoffs.

Hamburgers and shopping - ties that bind teenagers half a globe apart - were hot topics of discussion as a 16-member delegation of Speedway eighth- and ninth-grade students, their Japanese host families and chaperones were guests at the official welcome party for the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi.

The landscape is vague, but Graham Rahal remembers the hospitality shown by the Japanese when he visited Twin Ring Motegi in 1999 as a spectator for the CART race in which his father competed.

Eleven Honda dealerships from Motegi to Tokyo have an interesting tie-in with the Indy Japan 300.

Dale Coyne Racing star Justin Wilson is aiming for a strong finish to his 2009 IndyCar Series campaign heading into this weekend's penultimate outing at the Twin Ring Motegi in Japan.

ARDMORE Watching grass grow is tedious, but researchers in the Oklahoma Panhandle say they'll stare at their switchgrass all 1,000 acres of it until they know whether they've found a commercially viable source of biofuel.