Penske Racing's Brad Keselowski wrote off his #2 Blue Deuce car in a major accident in testing at Road Atlanta on Wednesday, and was taken to hospital for evaluation.
F1 driver Lewis Hamilton got to try out one of NASCAR's stock cars, while Tony Stewart was also given the chance to take the McLaren-Mercedes F1 car around historic Watkins Glen.
Mobil 1 orchestrated a unique car swap this week between former F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton and two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart at Watkins Glen. Here's what they thought of it...
Marcos Ambrose came close to having his 2011 season disappear without trace, but now things are back on track with an impressive 3rd at Dover and a chance of a wild card into the Chase.
How do you flesh out the entry list for a NASCAR Sprint Cup race? Hold it on a road course. On the circuits where right turns won't necessarily get you in trouble, you'll routinely see drivers who rarely appear on the staple of stock car racing - the ovals.
Justin Wilson provided Dale Coyne Racing with its first-ever IndyCar Series victory - in the 25-year old team's 558th open-wheel start - in the Camping World Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, fending off the attentions of three of the series' 'big four' in the process.
The combination of Darren Manning's hard driving and the tactical savvy of the AJ Foyt/ABC Supply team produced a season-best finish in the Camping World Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International as the Briton brought the #14 car home second overall.
Current Star Mazda points leader Charles Hall will make his Firestone Indy Lights debut with the RLR/Andersen Racing team, at the Watkins Glen double-header next weekend.
Thirty-three year old racing instructor Chris Cook has been handed a dream NASCAR opportunity by Joe Nemechek, who has hired Cook to contest two Nextel Cup and two Busch Series races in 2005.
Sterling Marlin produced the TV quote of the week at Watkins Glen when he called Greg Biffle a 'bug-eyed dummy' live on NBC after the former Daytona 500 winner found himself unceremoniously nerfed into the wall by an impatient Biffle early on in Sunday's Sirius at the Glen.
Michael Waltrip's 20th-place finish in the Sirius at The Glen on Sunday was not the road course finish he and his DEI team anticipated after a pleasing final practice and first half of the race, not to mention finishing fourth in June's race at Infineon Raceway.
Less than half way into Sunday's 90-lap Sirius at the Glen, Tony Stewart's #20 Joe Gibbs Racing crew had Boris Said sitting in Stewart's back-up Home Depot Chevrolet to see if the versatile road course ace could squeeze his lanky frame into the cockpit of the #20 machine should an increasingly il