McLaren's championship leader Lewis Hamilton clinched pole position for today's Belgian Grand Prix ahead of his main challenger Felipe Massa, on a track in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, that was supposed to favour the Ferrari car.

Hamilton's McLaren teammate Heikki Kovalainen took third place on the grid, with Ferrrari driver and world champion Kimmi Raikkonen finishing fourth.

"The team made no mistakes and I made no mistakes," said... // Toronto Sun

"Ironic thing," Gordon said at Richmond International Raceway, where weather postponed the race to set the 12-driver field for the playoffs to today.

Gordon is 10th in the standings, 102 points ahead of 13th-place David Ragan, heading into the Chevrolet 400.

"Last week Jimmie (Johnson) and his team went to Kentucky to test on Monday. Our team was scheduled to be there on Tuesday," Gordon said of his Hendrick Motorsports teammate. "Jimmie got a full day in, and it rained on Tuesday and we didn't get any testing in."

In the race they were working toward, Johnson led 228 of 250 laps in California on Sunday and won for the third time this season, while Gordon finished a very pedestrian 15th.

This week already has offered more of the same.

Gordon showed up at Richmond and had the... // Arizona Republic

RICHMOND, Va. -- He's the most accomplished driver in the NASCAR garage, and by a wide margin, but changes in the Sprint Cup Series have not been very kind to Jeff Gordon.

The four-time champion hasn't won a title since NASCAR went to the 10-race playoff format five years ago, and he hasn't won a race since the Car of Tomorrow became the car of today.

Only now is he starting to feel like things are coming together, even if the component of good fortune so appreciated by drivers at this level still hasn't swung back around his way.

"Ironic thing," Gordon said at Richmond International Raceway, where weather postponed the race to set the 12-driver field for the playoffs to today.

Gordon is 10th in the standings, 102 points ahead of 13th-place David Ragan, heading into the Chevrolet... // Memphis Commercial Appeal