NASCAR Holdings will acquire the Grand-Am Road Racing Association from NASCAR's ruling family, the Frances, the series announced.

"Nicely understated, never underrated," is the motto of Britain's Bristol Cars Ltd., now in its 62nd year of producing vehicles they describe as "Great Britain's most exclusive luxury car."

Ducati bridges the gap with a lighter, more powerful entry-level superbike. 849-cc, 134-hp, liquid-cooled L-twin; 370- lb dry weight; quarter-mile in 10.49 sec @ 132.76 mph.

He could have done anything he wanted. He was a Danish aristocrat and a direct descendant of both E. F. Hutton and F. W. Woolworth. He lived in Beverly Hills, and he looked like a movie star. But all he wanted to do was race sports cars.

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone told BBC Radio that he no longer thinks FIA president Max Mosley should resign in the wake of Mosley's bizarre prostitute sex scandal.

In what turned out to be a busy day for off-track news in the IndyCar Series--and on the heels of word that 2007 series champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti will replace Dan Wheldon at Target Chip Ganassi Racing next year--Panther...

The problem with the 2009 Volkswagen Routan isn't so much what it is as what it's not. What it is is VW's restyled version of the newest-generation Chrysler minivan, introduced last year.

With a grille that looks like the face of a stoned Pokémon character and a rear end that defies summary description, the exterior of the new Acura TLs (there are two: the base model and the SH-AWD, which replaces the Type-S) is bound to be...

So much for Dan Wheldon's expectation to remain with Chip Ganassi's IndyCar Series team.

By now, many of the folks most nostalgic for Mopar's muscle-car heyday already have snapped up the SRT version of the Dodge Challenger ("That '70s Show," AW, May 5), with its ground-pounding 425-hp, 6.1-liter Hemi V8.

Sick of high gas prices? One remedy may be the V6 version of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro.

Now in its sixth year, "The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering" might just be the classic-car-show equivalent of Major League Baseball's spring training.

Among the honored marques at this year's Concorso Italiano were "45 Years of Lamborghini" and "The Cars of Marcello Gandini."

Call me jaded, but when a car works well for the first three months, six months or year of its life in my garage, I think it's commendable. In fact, I talk it up.

Scott Dixon has put himself on the brink of another IndyCar Series championship by winning the pole for Sunday's Detroit Indy Grand Prix at Belle Isle.

Acura Motorsports will move up from the LMP2 class to LMP1 with two entries in the 2009 American Le Mans Series season.

Mecum Auction

Sports-car racer Scott Pruett was released from a New Jersey hospital on Thursday following a major accident in practice for the Grand-Am Series race at New Jersey Motorsports Park, a new 2.25-mile track in Millville.

Apparently, badge and brand management is all about definition. Muscle definition, that is.

At this time of year, old cars are antiques, automakers are coachbuilders and car shows are concours. And a pen is not a pen, it is a writing instrument.

The Audi R8 is getting even faster.

Chrysler LLC has put its hand-built Dodge Viper sports car business on the block.

MANAGING EDITOR ROGER HART: I was surprised at how much I liked this little Land Rover. It has a clean design inside and out, and the driving experience was quite nice.

In what is perhaps a sign of the times, Daytona International Speedway will close its 57,000-seat backstretch grandstand for next summer's Coke Zero 400 on July 4. The speedway will sell only infield

IndyCar Series teams are not thrilled with the financial prospect of racing in Australia on Oct. 26.