Michael Annett, who has been sidelined since being injured during a crash at the season opening Nationwide race at Daytona International Speedway, will return to his car this weekend. Annett, who drives the No. 43 Ford for Richard Petty Motorsports, got medical clearance from doctors Tuesday [...]
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The next five members of the NASCAR Hall of Fame will be selected this afternoon from a group of 25 nominees. A panel of 54 journalists, former racers, track operators and industry veterans will debate who among the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2014 nominees [...]
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A day after threatening to move the fall NASCAR race out of Concord, track owner Bruton Smith blamed Cabarrus County politicians for raising his taxes and not caring about the speedway as much as fans do. On Monday, Smith told WBTV there was a 70 percent [...]
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NASCAR’s Matt Kenseth crushed the opposition to win the first quarter DRIVER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013. The 2003 Sprint Cup Champion scored twice the points of his nearest rivals in a vote by an elite panel of American broadcasters and journalists In racing terms Kenseth [...]
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NASCAR announced today the launch of the second-annual “NASCAR: An American Salute” initiative, an industry-wide effort to honor and celebrate the service of members of the United States Armed Forces, veterans and their families. Beginning with the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor [...]
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Despite a dismal season to date, there are no crew chief changes planned at Stewart-Haas Racing, a high-ranking team official told SPEED.com Monday morning. “We’ve all won races together and championships together, we’re going to pull ourselves out of this together,” the team official said, speaking [...]
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James Buescher peeked in his rear-view mirror as he drove his truck to the finish line last year at Kansas and Kentucky. During a thrill-filled 2012 season that included a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship and the first four victories of his career on the [...]
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Someone in the behemoth traveling television compound behind the Charlotte Motor Speedway’s main grandstand messed up in a big way Saturday night. Some crazy NASCAR fans made it worse. With four of the race’s five segments wrapped, the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race headed toward its new [...]
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Well they did it again. Jimmie Johnson, Chad Knaus and the No. 48 Lowe’s team made history Saturday night in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. I really think they surprised a lot of people Saturday night by rewriting the record books and winning their fourth Sprint [...]
Continue reading → Since 1960, Charlotte Motor Speedway has played host twice a year to NASCAR’s premier series. But according to track owner Bruton Smith, he is strongly considering moving one of the track’s two dates to a different facility. In an interview with WBTV, Smith, the president of [...]
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