Marcos Ambrose News

If there was one track that 'owes' Marcos Ambrose, it is the Sonoma Raceway. And if there is one favorite going into this weekend, it's also Marcos Ambrose.

"Fast," the defending Sprint Cup champion said. "This is, to me, the fastest track we have -- and it might be in speed, but it definitely is in feel."

Carl Edwards didn't quite break the track record during NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying Friday at Michigan Int'l Speedway, but his 202 mph lap was more than enough to earn him the pole for Sunday's Quicken Loans 400.

He didn't flinch. He didn't take his foot off the gas. And he didn't hesitate to respond.

By Michigan has perhaps been Earnhardt's best racetrack since he joined Hendrick Motorsports for the start of the 2008 season.

Saunders-Klimenko, the property developer daughter of the late Hungarian immigrant John Saunders, who co-founded Westfield with Frank Lowy, is no stranger in pit lane, through her ownership of a Mercedes-Benz team in the Australian GT Championship, Erebus Motorsport.

A NASCAR win for Marcos Ambrose at Dover this weekend would mean more than the Australian clocking up his first oval win.

Don't look now, but driver Marcos Ambrose and crew chief Drew Blickensderfer have found some much-needed speed.

NASCAR will wait on Fox Sports' investigation of what caused an overhead TV camera rope to snap during the Coca-Cola 600 before deciding if such technology will be used in future races.

Charlotte Motor Speedway said 10 fans were injured Sunday at the Coca-Cola 600 and three of them were taken to the hospital after a nylon rope supporting a Fox Sports overhead television camera fell from the grandstands and landed on the track surface.

The Coca-Cola 600 has been delayed on the 126th lap after a FOX Sports television cable fell on the racing surface.

With the Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway looming, and NASCAR activities in and around the Charlotte-area ramping up, Richard Petty kicked off Charlotte race week Tuesday night by hosting the fifth-annual "King's Cup - Karting for a Cause" presented by D&B Motors and Xtreme Motorsports at Victory Lane Karting in Charlotte, NC.

Porsche racer Nick Percat is delighted to welcome Pirtek Fluid Systems to the 2013 Porsche Carrera Cup Championship, joining long-time supporter Coates Hire, on the Team BRM entry.

Marcos Ambrose heads into Charlotte Motor Speedway looking for the speed he found last year when the team qualified on the outside pole for the Coca-Cola 600.