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Bobby Dale has a heart for racing. He also has the genes for it. Bobby, who is 22 years old, lives Read more »in Rockingham, N.C., in the shadow of a speedway that once hosted NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekends, and where large crowds still show up for ARCA and street stock races and driving schools.

Like so many other aspiring race car drivers, he spends his days working at a "normal" job -- he is a cook at the local KFC -- and his weekends at the track.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (AHN) - Milka Duno may look like a million bucks and have multiple advanced education degrees, but The Indy Racing League thinks she needs to shape up he Read more »r driving skills.

On Saturday the sanctioning body for the IZOD IndyCar Series placed Duno on probation for the rest of the year for consistently meeting minimal performance standards.

Duno has failed to finished above 20th in any of her series starts and she had a on-track issue yet again this week while preparing for the Edmonton Indy event.

Speedway, IN, United States (AHN) - Chip Ganassi and Jamie McMurray joined some pretty elite company Sunday Read more »at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Ganassi got the rare season-sweep of Indianapolis with Dario Franchitti winning the Indianapolis 500 and McMurray, who captured the the Brickyard 400 on Sunday.

McMurray pulled off a rarity himself as he became just the third driver to win both the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 in the same season -- the others were Dale Jarrett and Jimmie Johnson.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (AHN) - The day in open-wheel racing was filled with controversy as two open-wheel races on two different continents produced two controversial wins.

Ei Read more »ght hours after Ferrari was fined $100,000 for orchestrating a win for driver Fernando Alonso over teammate Felipe Massa, Scott Dixon accepted a controversial IndyCar win in Edmonton.

In the case of Dixon, the win was handed to him by IndyCar even though Helio Castroneves' ride was the first to cross the finish line Sunday in the Honda Edmonton Indy.

Morrison, CO, United States (AHN) - Allen Johnson may have struggled this season but Read more » he always seems to know his way to the Winner's Circle at Bandimere Speedway.

Johnson scored his first Pro Stock win of the season and his third victory in in the last four years Sunday at Bandimere as Doug Kalitta (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) all scored wins Sunday at the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals.