For the second week in a row, Carl Edwards came out victorious in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. This week’s win came at Texas Motor Speedway in the Dickies 500. The pole-sitter, Jeff Gordon, finished in second. Behind him were Jamie McMurray, Clint Bowyer, and Greg Biffle to round out the top five.

Once again Edwards was given the Dow Automotive “Strategic Call of the Race”, EA Sports Move of the Race, and the Sunoco Diamond Performance contingency awards for his efforts at the track.

The full results from this race have been posted at the following link:

2008 Dickies 500 Results from Texas Motor Speedway

The standings have been updated and can be found here:

2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Standings

Mikko Hirvonen drove his Ford Focus RS to a win this weekend during the World Rally Championship’s Pioneer Carrozzeria Rally Japan. He finished 30 seconds ahead of the second place finisher Jari-Matti Latvala, who was also in a Ford Focus RS.

The top finishing drivers were:

1 – Mikko Hirvonen (Ford Focus RS WRC 07)
2 – Jari-Matti Latvala (Ford Focus RS WRC 07)
3 – Sebastien Loeb (Citroen C4)
4 – Chris Atkinson (Subaru Impreza WRC 2008)
5 – Per-Gunnar Andersson (Suzuki SX4)

Some of the big name drivers that didn’t finish the weekend included Dani Sordo, Francois Duval, Henning Solberg, and Conrad Rautenbach.

The full results from the race have been posted here:

Results from the 2008 WRC Pioneer Carrozzeria Rally Japan

The standings have been updated and can be seen here:

2008 World Rally Championship Standings