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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In the type of stunning victory that has typified racing at Talladega Superspeedway since its inception, David Ragan led an extraordinary 1-2 finish for Front Row Motorsports, which had never won a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race before Sunday. David Gilliland, pushed Ragan to the lead [...]
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Up until Saturday night Kevin Harvick’s season had been one of frustration and more about what it could be than it actually was. While many of the characteristics needed to score good finishes were there something was still amiss, and heading into this past weekend, the [...]
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Kyle Larson almost collided with a cleanup truck during Friday’s Nationwide Series race, narrowly avoiding disaster. For the second time in as many years, a NASCAR driver almost made contact with a safety vehicle. The incident occurred at Texas Motor Speedway in the middle of a [...]
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Mark Martin will get credit for finishing 10th at Martinsville Speedway, but it was the epitome of a total team effort. Filling in for the injured Denny Hamlin, Martin and the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team were able to overcome numerous obstacles to finish in [...]
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Has a week off cooled the budding feud between Joey Logano and Tony Stewart? Logano sure thinks so, as he has put behind him the post-race incident from Fontana where he and Stewart nearly came to blows after Logano threw a late-race block that kept Stewart [...]
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It’s been an eventful few weeks for Denny Hamlin. Two weeks ago, he was fined by NASCAR for remarks he made about the Gen-6 car, and last week, he was involved in a war of words with Joey Logano that resulted in a tussle in the [...]
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Brad Keselowski moved to the top of the Sprint Cup Series standings on Sunday with his third-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway. Keselowski leads Dale Earnhardt Jr. by nine points and the duo are the only two drivers to begin the season with four-straight top-10s. Jimmie [...]
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Just about every year there seems to be one or two drivers who sneak up and in surprising fashion, snag a Chase berth. Last year it was the Michael Waltrip Racing duo of Clint Bowyer and Martin Truex Jr. While both drivers had made the Chase [...]
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Much better weather awaits the NASCAR weekend in Las Vegas as the Pacific storm system that washed out NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying and practice along with Nationwide practice has moved off to the east into Colorado and the Central United States. Few clouds will linger but [...]
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