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With track position key, Will Power starts out front in Sunday's IndyCar race

Will Power, feeling a little under the weather from a cold that has been traveling through members of the Penske Team this weekend, put his foot down Friday afternoon to let Ganassi driver Scott Dixon know someone else can find his way around the 2.258-mile road course.

Franchitti, Dixon eat cereal from boxes with their pictures on them

Organizers of the Grand Prix of Baltimore are working hard to avoid traffic delays as they begin the construction of the street course for the Labor Day weekend racing event in the city.

This is IndyCar driver Ryan Hunter-Reay's second blog for The Baltimore Sun. It was written before he won the pole for Sunday's race in Edmonton.

Milwaukee's mayor says Baltimore should have confidence in the Baltimore Grand Prix management team.

Each morning, Monday through Friday, we'll hook you up with some reading material to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday.

Ryan Hunter-Reay has been an "up and coming" driver for much of the last decade in the IZOD IndyCar Series, but that part of his career is over now. The Florida native has won the last three races and leads the championship points chase.

The group running Baltimore's Grand Prix race announced Monday that Sunoco, Dr. Pepper and Giant Food would be sponsors of the Labor Day weekend event.

With this season of "The Bachelorette," almost over, we break down some of the show's highs and lows.

The new organizers of the Baltimore Grand Prix said Tuesday they are prepared to lose money on the race this year, but pledged that no vendor or taxpayer would go unpaid.

Ryan Hunter-Reay, driver of the No. 28 Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda Andretti Autosport Chevrolet/Dallara, will blog for The Baltimore Sun this summer.

Covering Indy 500 while ignoring Monaco Grand Prix shows wrong priorities

While promoting Sunday's Indianapolis 500, IndyCar driver Dario Franchitti recalls a positive experience at the first Baltimore Grand Prix

The Sun needs to do more to boost the Baltimore Grand Prix.

A pair of local investors who have teamed with racing star Michael Andretti's promotions company became the third group to be given control of the Baltimore Grand Prix race.

Rec sports for Howard County

The first race of the Offshore Powerboat Association season will be held off Ocean City Sunday

The team promoting Baltimore's Grand Prix — a group announced by city officials this week following the collapse of two other race organizers — has fewer than four months to hawk sponsorships, market the event, sell tickets and set up the race course and grandstands.

Racing champion and former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Michael Andretti will lead a third effort to organize Baltimore's Grand Prix race.

The proposed Baltimore Grand Prix agreement with promoter Michael Andretti is even worse than the last deal.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blakesaid Wednesday that the city would not increase spending on the Baltimore Grand Prix to ensure the Labor Day weekend race comes to fruition.

Just four months before high-speed cars are set to whirl through downtown streets, the IndyCar Series is seeking a new team to take over the Baltimore Grand Prix.

Baltimore Grand Prix isn't working out for the city so let's put it behind us

Turmoil in the new Baltimore Grand Prix management group is a bad sign; the city should cut its losses and give up on holding a race in 2012.

IndyCar executives met with Baltimore officials Monday to discuss the future of the company planning the city's Grand Prix — and whether the leader of the group should depart.

With the second Baltimore Grand Prix less than five months away, organizers of the race have yet to sign key agreements, land sponsorship deals, launch a marketing campaign, or start selling tickets.

Taxpayer money used; spending similar to O'Malley's rates in luxury skybox

Downforce Racing, the new operator of the Baltimore Grand Prix, missed three of five benchmarks that it agreed to have complete by March 15 under its contract with the city, a city official said.

Government watchdog group calls for more transparency

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's guests in the city's private skybox at Ravens games this past season included a small circle of city employees, prominent business leaders, donors to her campaign, and several family members, documents show.

The costs to put on the Baltimore Grand Prix were way out of line.

Peltz: In wake of Wheldon's death, wait is on for action from IndyCar CEO

Racecar great Ayrton Senna gets a movie worthy of his wit, intellect and drive in the thrilling documentary 'Senna'

Twenty years after becoming the first African-American to race in the Indianapolis 500, 10 years after driving competitively for the last time, Willy T. Ribbs will be back in the driver's seat this weekend as part of the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix.

At 71, Mario Andretti is anything but retired This country's most versatile racecar driver reflects on his four-decade career and talks about his love for Baltimore

Marco Andretti has enjoyed the opportinity — and expectations — that come with his famous family 24-year-old from Nazareth, Pa., considers Baltimore Grand Prix his 'home race'

Living in the basement of his mother's Rodgers Forge home, Steven Wehner set his sights on his biggest challenge yet: Bringing an Indycar race to downtown Baltimore.