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NASCAR: Drivers will try to win race, not friends, at Coke Zero 400

...Smaller cooling systems and a smaller front grille will keep cars from getting in big packs for the first 390 miles. Engine builders will turn their backs and crew chiefs will tell their drivers to ignore their temperature gauges in the final four...

http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/auto-racing/2012-07-06/nascar-drivers-will-tr
Auto Racing
NASCAR Racing notes: Aug. 16

...International Speedway when Denny Hamlin reportedly will have a TRD engine under the hood."I think Mark (Cronquist, JGR engine builder) and his team, when it comes to horsepower, when it comes to performance, they're really good and I think TRD...

http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/auto-racing/2011-08-16/nascar-racing-notes-au
Auto Racing
Sports briefs

...Cronquist of rural Brainerd, has been named NASCAR's engine builder of the year. Cronquist, the nephew of Jean Ebertowski...standings for the award, just two points behind the engine builder for Rusty Wallace, before Labonte finished fifth...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/112700/spo_1127000007.shtml
Sports
Foyt team tops dramatic day of qualifying

...outside of the first row of three on May 12, the first day of qualifications. "We had some engine problems and (engine builder) Jack Roush and his engineers finally nailed it on the head," Foyt said. "There was nothing tricky about these...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/052101/rac_0521010009.shtml
Sports
Bruce Bowler doesn't get mad, he gets even

...we decided right then that as long as we had a chance at the title we were going to try. We sent our equipment to engine builder Brad Anderson via Fed Ex and he got us fixed up for the fight." Bowler particularly relishes the championship because...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/060201/rac_0602010107.shtml
Sports
Everything far from humming as auto racing season ends

...accident. CART's future is in jeopardy as well, its engine builders -- Ford, Toyota and Honda -- having indicated displeasure...of the turbocharged business, leaving CART with no engine builders for 2003. Indecision over a TV contract, schedule-expanding...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/112301/rac_1123010051.shtml
Sports
Cycle engine builder also gets to be a racer

Shane Clarke has the best of both worlds.

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/062802/rac_0628020018.shtml
Sports
Studebaker Scotsman is Guess the Vehicle vehicle

...this series. "The car seemed to drive real similar except it had a ton more power," he said. He noted that his engine builder said his car's engine produces about 560 horsepower. NASCAR Winston Cup racers Matt Kenseth and Dave Blaney will...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/040303/aut_0403030015.html
Cars
Despite signs of thaw, issues facing IRL-Champ split

...put its full weight into NASCAR. That would leave Honda as the lone manufacturer, an untenable situation for the engine builder. "Our whole philosophy is built on competition," said Robert Clarke, Honda's director of motorsports. "Personally...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/052805/aut_0528050107.shtml
Cars
NASCAR, EPA work to get the lead out of racing

...to make it out to be," said engine builder Ernie Elliott. "To change it...in a NASCAR race. "When the engine builders tune a NASCAR car, it's in...easy. And it won't be cheap. Engine builders have to find new ways to cool...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/070905/aut_0709050071.shtml
Cars

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