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The Line


Monday
Sep072015

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

(Photo Matthew T. Thacker/LAT Photo USA, ©2015, courtesy of Toyota Racing)
Carl Edwards (No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Arris Toyota Camry) won the the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina Sunday night. The "throwback" event celebrating NASCAR's past turned into an endurance contest unfortunately, because of a track-record eighteen cautions. Brad Keselowski (No. 2 Team Penske Miller High Life Ford Fusion) finished second after leading the most laps, Denny Hamlin (No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Sport Clips Toyota Camry) was third and Joey Logano (No. 22 Team Penske Shell Pennzoil Ford Fusion) came in fourth. Watch Darlington video highlights here. 

(Photo by Scott R. LePage/LAT Photo USA ©2015, courtesy of Toyota Racing) 
Denny Hamlin (No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Sport Clips Toyota Camry) gets pit service from his Joe Gibbs Racing crew.

(Photo by Harold Hinson/HHP for GM/Chevrolet Racing)
Kevin Harvick (No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Budweiser/Jimmy John’s Chevrolet SS) races to a fifth-place finish Sunday night at Darlington Raceway. 

(Wood Brothers)
The famed Wood Brothers Racing team were clearly the best dressed for NASCAR's Darlington "throwback" weekend. The Woods showed up in old-school uniforms, with original team members Leonard and Delano Wood on pit road for the start of the race, holding the same pit boards the team used for most of its eight Darlington victories. Unfortunately the team's No. 21 Snap-on Ford Fusion - with its way-cool mosaic paint scheme made up of countless historic images - wound up 30th at the finish, as rookie Ryan Blaney who, after running around the top fifteen for much of the first 100 laps, earned his first Darlington stripe, which led to the team falling four laps behind the leaders.

(Bridge of Weir Leather Company)

The first inductees to the Scottish Motoring Hall of Fame, selected by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers and sponsored by the Bridge of Weir Leather Company, are: Jim Clark (above and below) one of the greatest drivers of all time, twice World Champion (1963, 1965) and winner of the 1965 Indianapolis 500; Sir John Young "Jackie" Stewart, "The Flying Scot" was World Champion in 1969, 1971 and 1973, with 27 race wins in 99 Formula 1 races; and Ian Callum, Director of Design for Jaguar Cars, one of the best British car designers of the 21st century.


(Bugatti images)
Bugatti will present its virtual concept Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo at the 66th International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt. The Bugatti was developed in cooperation with Polyphony Digital Inc., creator of the Gran Turismo video game franchise, as a real show car. Bugatti says that the design of the virtual race car celebrates Bugatti’s racing history and is based on state-of-the-art motor sport technology. The project is the brand’s tribute to its great racing tradition of the 1920s and 1930s and its victories in Le Mans 24-hour races.