Before David Ragan climbs into his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car for Sunday’s race at Sonoma Raceway, he’s going to climb into the driver’s seat of the 18-wheeled transporter that carries the race car 2,700 miles from North Carolina to California. The driver of the No. [...]
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The extra horsepower Toyota Racing Development provided Sunday compared to last weekend was evident to Martin Truex Jr. in his third-place finish in the Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway. TRD provides engines to Joe Gibbs Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing. TRD detuned its engines [...]
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Sunday was a rough day for Hendrick Motorsports. Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had promising rides derailed by car problems, and Hendrick teammate Jeff Gordon’s shot at winning at Michigan International Speedway ended less than 10 laps in because of a crash. Throw in a [...]
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Greg Biffle led the charge for Ford Racing’s comeback with the 1,000th win for the ‘Blue Oval’ brigade — a win at their home track, Michigan International Speedway — in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Quicken Loans 400. After questioning where the Fords stood against the [...]
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Penske Racing boss Roger Penske is squarely behind his mercurial and often gabby NASCAR Sprint Cup champ Brad Keselowski. Keselowski, the hard-charging driver from Rochester Hills, found himself the center of controversy — and not for the first time — on Friday for accusing Hendrick Motorsports [...]
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Brad Keselowski should keep quiet and focus on racing rather than teams’ hiring practices. That was the opinion of Richard Petty, who reacted Saturday to Keselowski’s comments earlier in the week that teams like Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing are “stealing away” top race-shop talent [...]
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. will wear the “Superman” logo on the hood of his Chevrolet in Sunday’s Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway while doing everything behind the steering wheel to live up to that image. That has essentially been the story of Earnhardt’s career, from [...]
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Brad Keselowski was asked to pick one word to describe a lap at Michigan International Speedway. ”Fast,” the defending Sprint Cup champion said. ”This is, to me, the fastest track we have – and it might be in speed, but it definitely is in feel.” MIS [...]
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Jason Leffler’s life will be celebrated Wednesday in North Carolina as memorial funds continue to be established for his 5-year-old son Charlie Dean Leffler. Leffler, 37, a former NASCAR driver, was killed June 12 in a sprint-car accident at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey when something [...]
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Regan Smith got out of his car quickly after winning the Alliance Truck Parts 250 at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday. Smith was ecstatic about his second NASCAR Nationwide Series victory of the season and the fact that he leads the championship handily. But the driver [...]
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