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 [...]
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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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He was supposed to be a player for the million dollar payout (the official prize was $1,039,175) starting in the sixth row in the Miller Lite Ford for Roger Penske with a highly publicized mosaic paint scheme on his No.2 “Blue Deuce” for the Sprint All [...]
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It’s only fitting that Jimmie Johnson’s latest romp through the record books was shrouded in post-race controversy. What’s a Johnson win, after all, without a good conspiracy theory? The latest instance of black helicopters hovering over the Hendrick Motorsports team came in the closing laps of [...]
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For more than two decades, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series has been dominated by four race teams: Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Richard Childress Racing and Roush Fenway Racing. From 1990 through the 2010 season, the Cup champion emerged from one of those four organizations in all [...]
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Racing 600 miles is the ultimate endurance test when it comes to competing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Every aspect of the race car needs to be built the best it can be, starting with the heartbeat of the Chevrolet SS—the engine. This weekend, Hendrick [...]
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Jimmie Johnson might have won last year’s Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway by being the driver who best took advantage of the event’s unique set of rules. He makes no apologies for it. “We played the game is what we did,” Johnson said Friday. [...]
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