NASCAR, WEC, Formula One Weekend Review

Bowyer Wins at Charlotte
Clint Bowyer stretched his fuel mileage to take his third win of 2012. He held off Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle and Kyle Busch.

With the victory, Bowyer jumps to fourth in the standings, 28 points behind the points leader Brad Keselowski. Keselowski led a race high 139 laps, only to come home 11th. His points lead is now only four over Johnson and fifteen over Hamlin. Kasey Kahne came home eight and is fifth in the points (-35 back). The points go as follow from sixth to twelfth, Biffle (-43), Martin Truex Jr. (-49), Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon (-50), Kevin Harvick (-58), Matt Kenseth (-67) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (-86).

Dale Earnhardt Jr. sat out this past race and will miss Kansas with a concussion. Regan Smith is substituting for Earnhardt Jr. AJ Allmendinger returned to racing, driving for James Finch's Phoenix Racing. He finished twenty-fourth, four laps down.

Toyota Beats Audi On It's Home Turf
The Toyota TS030 Hybrid, driven by Alexander Wurx, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima, won the Six Hours of Fuji, holding off the Audis. This is the Toyota's second win of the year in the FIA World Endurance Championship, they won earlier this year at Sao Paulo. Both wins have come from pole position.

André Lotterer, Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler lead the Driver's World Championship by 16.5 points over their Audi counterparts and elder statesmen Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen. The final round of the 2012 WEC season will take place in two weeks time from Shanghai.

Also to note, the American Starworks Motorsport clinched the LMP2 class championship at Fuji. The entry has been split this year between Ryan Dalziel, Stéphane Sarrazin, Enzo Potolicchio and Tom Kimber-Smith.

Vettel Retakes Point Lead in Korea
With his third consecutive win and fourth of the season, Sebastian Vettel retook the points lead for Fernando Alonso. He leads by four points with four rounds remaining. The German held off his Australian teammate and pole sitter, Mark Webber for the win. Webber set fast lap. Alonso came home third, with his Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa finishing behind him in fourth. Kimi Räikkönen started fifth and finished fifth, ahead of Nico Hülkenberg. Romain Grosjean finished seventh ahead of the Toro Rosso teammates Jean-Éric Vergne and Daniel Riccardo. This is second race of 2012 in which both STR drivers have scored points, the other being Spa. Lewis Hamilton rounded out the points in tenth.

Formula One's next stop is the Indian Grand Prix in two weeks.