Daytona speedway boss Chitwood faces rough road ahead

DAYTONA BEACH — It's almost as if it was ordained that Joie Chitwood III would ultimately have a connection to Daytona International Speedway.

Homestead-Miami off 2011 IndyCar schedule

Homestead-Miami Speedway is off the 2011 Indy Racing League schedule. Kansas Speedway may not be far behind. IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard confirmed the change Wednesday. Homestead was IRL’s traditional opening site for much of the last decade and will be where the final race of this year takes place on Oct. 2.

International Speedway Corporation and KB Marine Holdings Announce Extension on the Closing of the Staten Island ...

International Speedway Corporation today announced that it executed a second amendment to its definitive agreement to sell its 676-acre parcel of property located in Staten Island, New York, to KB Marine Holdings LLC . Â The Second Amendment provides an extension to KB Holdings to close the transaction on or before November 30, 2010. Â The total sales price is $88.0 million, $32.6 million of ...

Series news and notes 2010-09-08

1. Catching up with Bertrand Baguette: First-year IZOD IndyCar Series driver Bertrand Baguette recorded his first top-10 finish of the season Sept. 4 in the Kentucky Indy 300, which followed his previous best of 12th a week earlier at Chicagoland Speedway.

Ingram's Flat Spot On: Atlanta's high banks get trimmed

This year's Labor Day weekend race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway predictably produced another belly-to-the-ground, flat-out scramble that would have made Fireball Roberts, the first winner on the same high banks in 1960, proud.