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LONDON -- Bernie Ecclestone called on Max Mosley to resign as president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) for the first time on Saturday following Mosley's involvement in a sex scandal.
Ecclestone, 77, the commercial executive of Formula One, said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph he had been a friend of Mosley's for 40 years, but the time had come for him to quit.
It is the first time since the scandal broke in March that Ecclestone has publicly called for Mosley to quit.
"He should stand down out of responsibility for the institution he represents, including F1," he said.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR on Wednesday announced that Tony Eury Sr., crew chief for the No. 88 Chevrolet driven by Brad Keselowski, has been fined and placed on probation as have two JR Motorsports team members who were involved in a post-race altercation in the pit road impound area following the Nationwide Series race on May 24 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
• Eury Sr. was fined $1,000 and placed on probation until June 25 for violating Sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 9-4A (the crew chief assumes responsibility for the actions of his or her driver, car owner and team members) of the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rule Book.
• JR Motorsports crew member Michael Sandlin will serve a one-race suspension from the Nationwide Series and is suspended from NASCAR until June 4. He has been placed on probation until Oct. 15 and also has been fined $1,500 for violating Section 12-4-A. Sandlin failed to follow a directive from a NASCAR official and had inappropriate contact with a NASCAR official during the post-race altercation.
• Jordan Allen, another JR Motorsports crew member, also has been placed on probation until Oct. 15 and fined $1,500 for being in violation of Section 12-4-A. Allen also failed to follow a directive from a NASCAR official and had inappropriate contact with a NASCAR official during the post-race altercation.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR on Wednesday issued penalties, fines and suspensions to the No. 66 and No. 70 teams in the Sprint Cup Series.
The No. 66 car, driven by Scott Riggs, and the No. 70 car, driven by Johnny Sauter, were found to be in violation of Sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 20-3.1.3A (wing mounting locations were not as specified by the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rule Book).
The infractions were discovered May 24 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
As a result:
• Riggs has been penalized 150 driver points;
• No. 66 car owner Joe Custer has been penalized 150 owner points;
• Sauter has been penalized 150 driver points;
• No. 70 car owner Margaret Haas has been penalized 150 owner points;
• Both the crew chiefs and the car chiefs for the two cars -- Bootie Barker and Derick Jennings for the No. 66 and Dave Skog and Thomas Harris for the No. 70 -- have been suspended from the next six Sprint Cup Series events, suspended from NASCAR until July 9 and placed on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31;
• Additionally, Barker and Skog each have been fined $100,000.
The penalty also includes NASCAR's confiscation of team 66 Serial Number HMS 12 06 415 race car and team 70 Serial Number HMS 04 08 507 race car.
CONCORD, N.C. -- For Kasey Kahne and Greg Biffle, the finish of Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600 was a replay of the May 17 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Challenge at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Kahne took the checkered flag with Biffle chasing him for the final three laps, but what happened in the first 397 laps of the 400-lap marathon featured more subplots than an Agatha Christie novel.
Seizing the moment when Tony Stewart blew a tire while leading on Lap 397, Kahne streaked to the finish 10.203 seconds ahead of Biffle, who recovered from a loose wheel and a lost lap early in the race to claim the runner-up spot.
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By Dave Lewandowski
indycar.com
Scott Dixon might have started from the pole position for the 92nd Indianapolis 500, but it was anything but a clear path to his first trip to Victory Circle in "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
Dixon's crew got the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car off pit lane first during a Lap 171 final pit stop under caution and the 2003 IndyCar Series champion held off Panther Racing's Vitor Meira to claim the third 500-Mile Race victory for team owner Chip Ganassi.
Marco Andretti, who finished second as a rookie in 2006, checked in third in the No. 26 Indiana Jones car for Andretti Green Racing. Two-time winner Helio Castroneves finished fourth and Ed Carpenter a career-high fifth. Rahal Letterman Racing's Ryan Hunter-Reay was sixth and rookie Hideki Mutoh was seventh. Buddy Rice, the 2004 race winner, finished eighth for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and A.J. Foyt Racing's Darren Manning was ninth. Townsend Bell finished 10th for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.
When Ferrari wrapped up the front row of the grid for the Monaco Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton’s only real hope of victory seemed to lie in the hands of the weather gods. It duly rained before the start, but after six laps the Englishman walloped the wall hard on the exit to the Swimming Pool, while trailing poleman Felipe Massa’s Ferrari. Into the pits he came, and at that stage the race seemed to belong to the Brazilian.
McLaren, however, brimmed the MP4-23 with fuel, and Hamilton caught his first break when the safety car was deployed on the eighth lap after Red Bull’s David Coulthard and Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Bourdais went off at Massenet.
The racing resumed on the 11th lap, and two laps later Kimi Raikkonen dropped out of second place when he had to serve a drive-through penalty for having his tyres fitted too late in the grid. Now BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica moved up to push Massa, and was able to snatch the lead when the latter slid momentarily up the escape road at Ste Devote on the 16th lap. Hamilton was chasing hard after them, with Raikkonen now trailing in fourth place.
Kubica stayed ahead until he refuelled on the 26th lap, whereupon Massa went back into the lead until his stop on the 33rd lap. By then Hamilton was up to second, and after moving into the lead… he just kept going.
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