By Aaron Bell - Motorsport.com
Kasey Kahne is starting to feel like the king of comebacks.
Kahne, who was winless in 2007, won for the second time in three starts when he rebounded from a pit road mistake to take the checkered flag in the Pocono 500 today at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA.
Kahne, who started the race from the pole, followed Jimmie Johnson for the first 16 laps before making the first lead change of the day on lap 17. But a miscue on pit road on lap 59 cost him a bunch of track position and threatened to keep him out of contention for the win.
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By ADAM COOPER
Robert Kubica scored his maiden Grand Prix win on Sunday after a flawless performance in Montreal. It was also the first win for the BMW Sauber team since its humble beginnings as a privateer back in 1993.
Incredibly, Kubica now leads the world championship, thanks to his consistent points scoring while the title-chasing McLaren and Ferrari drivers have endured some unfortunate races. Indeed, Lewis Hamilton dominated the early stages of the Canadian race, only for the McLaren team leader to make a silly error and ram into the back of rival Kimi Raikkonen at the end of the pitlane when the Ferrari man stopped for a red light.
Hamilton secured pole position on a track made difficult by a surface that was breaking up. Kubica was alongside and Raikkonen third, while Felipe Massa was down in sixth in the other Ferrari.
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FORT WORTH – Saturday night's Bombardier Learjet 550 ended with the cars coasting around Texas Motor Speedway at less than 90 mph.
That's a crawl for cars that reach speeds of 220 mph. What a downer.
Scott Dixon, the IndyCar Series' dominant driver, won his third race of the season. He was the fifth polesitter to win in 19 IndyCar races at TMS.
But he won it as the yellow and checkered flags waved together. Some fans were already leaving before Dixon crossed the finish line. It's the second time in a week that a late crash has forced an IndyCar Series race to end under caution.
That should not happen.
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(CNN) -- World championship leader Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal to claim pole position for Sunday's race.
But the McLaren man had to produce a dramatic last lap to pip Robert Kubica in the BMW who had surprisingly posted the quickest time moments before in Saturday's session.
Hamilton, who had been on pole prior to Kubica's late charge, certainly reserved his best for last with a stunning one minute 17.886 seconds to be over a half a second clear of the field.
"At the end I had two laps," Hamilton told the Associated Press.
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Kyle Busch is working overtime to try to win three points championships
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By JIM PEDLEY
The Kansas City Star
From the sound of it, Kyle Busch is in the throes of a major funk at this very moment. He’s probably sitting in a hotel room or in his motor home or on an airplane somewhere chewing his fingernails.
All because today he is not in a race car. Today, for the only time in a five-day stretch, Busch’s schedule takes him out of a race car. That means he can only think about racing.
And that really stinks.
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PARIS, June 3 (UPI) -- Max Mosley, the scandal-plagued president of the world auto sports governing body FIA, will keep the job after winning a vote of confidence in Paris Tuesday.
Mosley, 68, comfortably survived the vote by member automobile racing clubs, held at Federation Internationale de l'Automobile headquarters in Paris, with the vote going 103 in favor of keeping Mosely and 55 against, The Sun newspaper reported.
Mosely had blasted reports in the British tabloid News of the World linking him to Nazi-themed sex acts with prostitutes, decrying it as an invasion of his privacy and launching a libel suit seeking to clear his name.
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By DAN GELSTON
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Kyle Busch eggs on the jeering pre-race crowd in his role as NASCAR's latest "Bad Boy."
The usual noise he hears after races this year are the sounds of celebration. Busch can tune out those boos when a crew is whooping it up, confetti is falling all over him and victory drinks are spraying in his direction.
No matter the series, the track or crowd reaction, nothing has slowed down Busch this season.
Busch led the way again, dominating the second half of the 400-mile race Sunday at Dover International Speedway and charging to his Sprint Cup series-best fourth win of the season — and 10th overall.
"That darned 18 car got us again," said runner-up Carl Edwards.
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