Ford Motor Co. is recalling 19,000 truck chassis-cab units from the 1985 and 1986 model years for replacement of a nut that could cause fuel leaks.
Saugus Speedway, the oldest auto racing facility in the West, will begin its 28th consecutive season of stock car racing Saturday night with a 150-lap factory stock enduro--sometimes called the Freeway 150--and a destruction derby.
For Paolo Barilla, the talented 24-year-old race-car driver from Parma, Italy, the family's pasta business could wait.
Getting into the U.S.
Bobby Rahal held off Danny Sullivan Sunday to win the Champion Spark Plug 300-kilometer Indy-car race, his third straight victory at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, Calif.
In a cluttered basement room at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Ronald Vale cleared space on a counter, rummaged for a pair of tweezers and slowly squeezed a single, glistening drop of protoplasm from the nerve filament of a squid.
Pennsylvania has belonged to Mario Andretti for many years, except for the 2.5-mile tri-oval at Pocono International Raceway.
For the first time since 1972, Gary Beck, the defending champion, won't be driving a top-fuel dragster when the National Hot Rod Assn. holds its 22nd annual Winston World Finals, which start a four-day run today at the L.A.
vehicle rear-ended a motor home, rolled down a steep incline and burst into flames, the California Highway Patrol said.
In 1971, Bobby Ferro drove solo from Ensenada to La Paz in a Sandmaster Funco to win the Baja 1000.
Bubba Shobert has been riding motorcycles since he was 6 and racing since he was 8, but he has never had a hot streak like the one he's on now.
Danny Sullivan, the 1985 Indianapolis 500 winner, nursed a broken clutch nearly all the way and bumped past Bobby Rahal, this year's Indy winner, just 26 laps from the end in winning the Chase Meadowlands Grand Prix Indy-car race Sunday at East Rutherford, N.J.
Terry Vance can go from 0 to 60 m.p.h. on his Suzuki motorcycle in 1.2 seconds.
A Czechoslovak engineer escaped to the West in a motorized hang glider after eluding two military jets and landed in a forest just as his homemade aircraft ran out of gas, police said Tuesday.
Overlooked in the excitement over Al Unser's joining A.J.
The San Pedro husband-wife team of Wayne and Denise Bennet, who scored an unprecedented sweep of a United States Auto Club midget racing doubleheader two weeks ago in Ventura, will attempt to repeat the feat Sunday night at Ascot Park.
Mike Sweeney, a third-generation Southern California race driver, is about to become an Outlaw.
Broc Glover, six-time national motocross champion, will return to action Saturday night at Anaheim Stadium after taking nearly a year off to allow a broken wrist to mend.
Interest in the California Racing Assn. sprint car driving championship may be overshadowed this year by the battle for car owner supremacy between two pioneers of the sport--Alex Morales, 79, of Anaheim, and Bruce Bromme, 69, of Gardena.
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