Racing News

CBS.SportsLine.com's Brian De Los Santos and Charlie McCarthy provide analysis on three weekly racing topics.

Fresh off a second-place finish in his American stock car debut, former American open-wheel race car driver Patrick Carpentier will replace Scott Riggs in the No. 10 Dodge this weekend at Watkins Glen.

Ferrari reportedly wants to sign Lewis Hamilton from Formula One rival McLaren.

Kyle Busch chose to drive for Joe Gibbs Racing next season and began informing other teams Monday of his decision.

Hendrick and Gibbs are the big guns in Nextel Cup racing in 2007, but in his latest Power Rankings, Brian De Los Santos says the most intriguing matchup is Penske vs. DEI in the battle for Chase for the Championship spots.

Ray Evernham completed the sale of his NASCAR team Monday to Montreal Canadians owner George Gillett Jr., ending nearly six months of negotiations to bring on a partner.

Helio Castroneves wound up on crutches after a collision with Vitor Meira sent both of their cars hard into the concrete wall 58 laps into Sunday's Firestone Indy 400.

Tony Kanaan held off protege Marco Andretti for the final 27 laps Sunday and won the Firestone Indy 400, a race marred by a spectacular wreck in which Andretti Green Racing teammate Dario Franchitti took a wild, upside-down ride.

Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti walked away from a spectacular and frightening six-car crash Sunday during the Firestone Indy 400 at Michigan International Speedway.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won his third Formula One race of the year at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, beating Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari and BMW-Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.

Defending world champion Fernando Alonso edged McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton to take the pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

A.J. Foyt plans to oversee his ABC Supply Racing team in the IndyCar Series race in Michigan this weekend, relieved he survived a plunge into a lake while operating a bulldozer.

Stock cars roared into Canada this weekend for NASCAR's first foray north of the border, and early indications are this inaugural race will be an unqualified success.

We saw Jeff Gordon's tactics win at Pocono eight weeks ago. But the second time around Sunday won't be a cakewalk, Pete Pistone says. With the Chase just weeks away, every driver will be grabbing for every point.

The Indy Racing League and Michigan International Speedway will part ways after Sunday's race because they couldn't agree on a new contract, ending a decades-long relationship between thrilling, open-wheel racing and the 2-mile oval.

Kevin Harvick is still upset with good friend Tony Stewart, who ran into him in the closing laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and ruined what should have been a second-place finish.

Juan Pablo Montoya will race in his final Busch Series event next week at Watkins Glen, then the team will stop competing.

Greg Biffle was fined $5,000 and put on probation until Dec. 31 for skipping a press-box interview following his second-place finish in the Kroger 200 Busch Series race at O'Reilly Raceway Park last week.

Formula One's governing body will hear an appeal regarding its decision not to impose sanctions against McLaren for obtaining confidential information from rival Ferrari.

Scott Speed, the only American driver in Formula One, was dropped by the Toro Rosso team Tuesday and replaced by Germany's Sebastian Vettel.