Retired stock-car driver Dick Trickle, known for his colorful name and short-track prowess, died on Thursday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71. According to the Lincoln County, N.C., sheriff’s department, the incident occurred at 12:02 p.m. ET at Forest Lawn Cemetery off Highway [...]
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Matt Kenseth has been compared to NASCAR Hall of Famer David Pearson more than once in his career for the way he lays back, saves his car and then comes on strong at the end. He certainly resembled him Saturday at a track where nobody has [...]
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Ryan Newman isn’t very happy with NASCAR’s lack of response to issues he has with restrictor-plate racing. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver blasted the governing body just short of being fined after Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway, trying to send a message that changes are needed to [...]
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NASCAR president Mike Helton insists the governing body did not have its power undermined by recent reductions in penalties through the appeal process. “I don’t feel like this in anyway undermines what we do,” Helton said Friday at Darlington Raceway. “And in most cases the process [...]
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Regan Smith arrived at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend hoping to “hold serve,” he said. He wanted to remain close to then-Nationwide Series points leader Sam Hornish Jr., avoid the inevitable mass wrecks that are so much a part of the process and pomp of restrictor-plate racing, [...]
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Penske Racing on Wednesday lost its initial appeal of penalties against the Sprint Cup teams of reigning champion Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano. The National Stock Car Racing panel unanimously upheld fines, point penalties and suspensions issued for unapproved rear housing parts discovered during inspection of [...]
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Denny Hamlin plans to start Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway, but don’t look for him to be in the car long. Assuming nothing changes during practice or qualifying, it will be the first race back for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver since suffering a [...]
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Denny Hamlin wanted to run this weekend’s race at Richmond, his hometown track, in the worst way. However, after doctors pored over his latest scan Wednesday, they decided it was decided the L1 compression fracture had not healed enough for him to safely compete Saturday night. [...]
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Matt Kenseth says the penalties NASCAR levied against his Sprint Cup team and Joe Gibbs Racing were “grossly unfair’” and “borderline shameful.” Kenseth was penalized 50 points in the standings Wednesday, and his crew chief, Jason Ratcliff, was suspended for six races and fined $200,000 because [...]
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Johnny Sauter lost the lead in the Truck Series standings Wednesday when NASCAR docked him 25 points for a modified fuel cell found during inspection last weekend at Kansas Speedway. Sauter’s crew chief, Joe Shear, was fined $10,000, suspended for the next four races and placed [...]
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