APRIL 13, 2016

(Photo by Russell LaBounty/LAT Photo USA ©2016, courtesy of Toyota Racing)
Kyle Busch celebrates with his wife, Samantha, after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday night in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry. It was the 30-year-old's second straight Sprint Cup win and 36th of his meteoric career. It was also his fourth straight NASCAR national series race, having swept last week's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup events at Martinsville Speedway and having won Friday night's NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Texas. "It's pretty darn good, I'll tell you that," Busch said of his streak - and life. "I've got a great wife, a great son and I'm having a blast, living the dream." Get more NASCAR info here.

(Photo by Alan Marler for GM/Chevrolet Racing)
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Nationwide Chevrolet SS) finished second in Texas. Kevin Harvick (No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Jimmy John's Chevrolet SS) finished tenth.

(Photo courtesy of Ford Performance)
Joey Logano (No. 22 Team Penske Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion) finished third at the Texas Motor Speedway Saturday night.

(Matthew T. Thacker LAT Photo USA ©2016, courtesy of Toyota Racing)
Kyle Busch (No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing NOS Energy Drink Toyota Camry) dominated the O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race from the pole at Texas Motor Speedway Friday night, leading a race-high 150 of 200 laps at the 1.5-mile track. It was Busch's fourth victory in five XFINITY starts this year. He also extended his own series record to an incredible 80 wins.

(BMW)
Alessandro Zanardi started his 2016 para-cycling season with a win and a new race record on Sunday. The 49-year-old BMW Brand Ambassador celebrated his fifth victory at the prestigious Rome Marathon. Zanardi bettered the outright race record he set in 2012 by two and a half minutes. The Rome Marathon’s 42 kilometer route started and finished in front of the famous Colosseum and went through the Italian capital’s historic center, passing numerous landmarks. The event dates back to 1995, and, with over 13,500 participants, is one of the biggest marathon events in Europe. Zanardi has no motorsport racing on his schedule for 2016 and is instead concentrating on his para-cycling competitions.

(MotoGP)
Jorge Lorenzo (No. 99 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), Marc Marquez (No. 93 Repsol Honda) and Andrea Iannone (No. 29 Ducati Team) enjoy the moment after the Red Bull Grand Prix of The Americas at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. Marquez dominated the MotoGP race from start to finish, with Lorenzo finishing second and Iannone third.

(Volkswagen Motorsport)
With the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) transforming its rules for 2017, Volkswagen is starting to reveal information about the next generation Polo R WRC. Key details? It's wider, lighter, more aerodynamic (bigger rear wing and front spoiler) and more powerful (380HP roughly 60HP more than the current car). The increase in power is achieved by widening the air restrictor from 33 millimeters to 36 millimeters, and an electronic center differential can now be used for the power transmission. The new cars will appear at the Monte Carlo next January.

(FIA World Rallycross Championship)
The 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy will kick off this weekend (April 15-17) for the season-opening Bompiso Rallycross of Portugal in the picturesque town of Montalegre, located in the hills of the Vila region, close to the Spanish border. The circuit presents a unique challenge for both drivers and engineers because it is the highest altitude - 1800 meters above sea level - event on the World RX calendar. Two new additions to the star-studded lineup of drivers this year include Sebastien Loeb and Ken Block. In the top World Championship class, a total of 23 600HP Supercars will go head-to-head in Portugal over four qualifying sessions [Q1-Q4], two semi-finals, plus one final.

(Ford)
The all-new, much anticipated 2016 Ford Focus RS will be the official safety vehicle of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix At Long Beach Saturday, April 16. The Focus RS boasts a highly-tuned, 2.3-liter EcoBoost engine mated to a high-performance All-Wheel-Drive system with Dynamic Torque Vectoring. The Focus RS accelerates from 0-60 mph in 4.7 seconds and has a top speed of 165 mph. Ford Chip Ganassi Racing’s two Ford GTs will fight for the GTLM class win against Corvette Racing, BMW Team RLL and the factory Porsche and Ferrari teams.

Editor's Note: “The Decision” is the first of five video shorts from the Ford Motor Company about the development of the Ford GT. It features Bill Ford Jr., Raj Nair, Dave Pericak and Edsel B. Ford II, who attended the 1966 race with his father, Henry Ford II. The shorts will culminate in one long-form documentary that will follow the development of both the Street Car and Race Car version of the Ford GT from the decision to build the cars to the return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. (The Autoextremist makes a cameo appearance as well.) Watch it here. -WG