Formula 1 rocked the racing world last week, and the aftershocks might soon be coming to a racetrack near you. Namely, Daytona International Speedway. Formula 1 announced it was getting rid of “grid girls,” the models who hang around the pits in various states of undress. They’ve been doing it for decades, then along came […]
You won’t be able to miss Danica Patrick when she makes her NASCAR farewell thanks to perhaps the brightest paint scheme of her career.In a GoDaddy press release today, Danica Patrick called the paint scheme she’ll be racing in the 2018 Daytona 500 “kind of like ‘back to the future,’” and she’s not wrong. Patrick […]
Kelvin van der Linde is looking forward to his debuts at the Rolex 24 at Daytona and Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour after the Montaplast by Land Motorsport team came so close to the GT Daytona class victory last year. The South African driver won the Nürburgring 24 in his breakout year in GT3 racing last […]
January. Not the most interesting of months in motor racing, by any stretch. But there’s salvation coming from America as the prototype season begins at Daytona, and Dubai hosts its annual twice-round-the-clock GT race to open the Hankook 24H series. It hardly needs saying that this is going to be a fascinating season for sports […]
McLaren Honda Formula 1 Team driver Fernando Alonso will return to racing in America in January 2018, when he contests the Rolex 24 at Daytona with United Autosports. Having recently tried his hand at the Indy 500, where he was in with a shot of winning the race before suffering an engine failure, despite no […]
Nascar Whelen Euro Series new Season Presents New Logo Aligned With NASCAR’s New Brand Identity And Exciting 2018 Season Already one of the best touring car series in Europe, the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is taking the next step by introducing new evolutions for 2018 to come even closer to its American model, beginning with […]
Nielsen to drive for Wright Motorsports in IMSA WeatherTech serie Fresh from back-to-back championships in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD class, Christina Nielsen is changing teams. Nielsen and Wright Motorsports announced on Saturday that she will join forces with Porsche and Wright Motorsports to race a 911 GT3 R in the GT Daytona (GTD) […]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wrapped up his final season as a NASCAR driver with one last piece of hardware. He won the Most Popular Driver Award on Thursday night for the 15th consecutive time. The award is based on a fan vote and sponsored by the National Motorsports Press Association. Only Bill Elliott won the award […]
No one really knows for sure when the first auto race took place, though some have speculated. “There is no doubt precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles,” NASCAR legend Richard Petty once said. “It was the day they built the second automobile.” The idea that drivers could race cars not much different […]
After Danica Patrick announced 2017 would be her last full-time season in NASCAR, Brad Keselowski took to Twitter with one prediction. “In time,” he wrote, “you will be truly appreciated for all that you’ve contributed to this sport we all love.” Before Sunday’s Cup Series finale — the Ford Ecoboost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway — IndyCar […]
Martin Truex Jr has won the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship after winning the final race of the season; the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The #78 Furniture Row Racing driver held off title rival Kyle Busch in a thirty lap sprint to the chequered flag to seal his first NASCAR Cup Series title. As many may have predicted heading into […]
The starting grid for Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400, the final race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup season, will include the final four drivers for the championship: Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr. It will also include Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick and Matt Kenseth. The lineup for the 2018 Daytona […]
Finally. After 35 weeks of racing, countless wrecks (both intentional and otherwise) and technicalities and trips across the country, we are finally down to the last NASCAR Cup Series race of the season. And it is finally time to crown a champion. But, who will it be? First the contenders: Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, […]
During the pace laps for the AAA 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, team owner Roger Penske told Brad Keselowski to have a “good, blue-collar day.”Keselowski, the championship-winning veteran, rebounded from a disastrous first lap to deliver a top-five that likely saved their championship hopes. Keselowski and Kyle Busch came together in the very first corner, […]
Martin Truex Jr.’s career at NASCAR’s top competitive level has been a study in the tentacles of circumstance. Name the obstacle, and he’s probably had to deal with it in the Monster Energy Cup Series. So, it only seems fitting that in the midst of Truex’s best season, he’s dealing with the most difficult of […]
The sun went down, the new lights came on, and all hell broke loose at Martinsville Speedway. In a wild overtime finish that took Sunday’s First Data 500 to 505 laps at the 0.526-mile short track, Kyle Busch beat Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series leader Martin Truex Jr. to the stripe by 0.141 second to […]
McLaren Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso is taking on a new challenge in 2018. One year removed from his Indianapolis 500 experience, the two-time F1 champion has agreed to race in the Rolex 24 at Daytona with United Autosports. Alonso will co-drive a Ligier LMP2 with 2017 FIA Formula 3 champion Lando Norris and Asian […]
Fernando Alonso will contest the 2018 Daytona 24 Hours with McLaren boss Zak Brown’s United Autosports team.T he race, set to held next January 27-28, will mark Alonso’s second appearance at an iconic American race in less than a year, following his participation in the 2017 Indy 500, and his debut in sports car racing. […]
Martin Truex Jr. won the Hollywood Casino 400 Sunday at Kansas Speedway, but the much bigger story turned out to be the misfortune suffered by most of the NASCAR playoff drivers in the Round of 12’s elimination race. Those woes began early in the race and claimed one driver after another. Kyle Larson, who entered the race ranked […]
Martin Truex Jr. wasn’t expecting to be a contender at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday. However, the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing’s never-say-die attitude paid off with the team’s sixth victory of 2017 and 13th career win for Truex in the Bank of America 500. “Way to go pit crew, you guys owned it,” said […]
Kyle Busch drove away from Kyle Larson in the final laps en route to a fairly easily victory in Sunday afternoon’s ISM Connect 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The victory was the 2015 champion’s third at the 1-mile track near Loudon, his third this season and 41st of his career. His most recent Monster Energy NASCAR Cup […]
Even if he is a little bland, Jimmie Johnson is such a prolific stock-car driver that you’d think more people would be pulling for him lately, especially since he has a chance to make history this fall by becoming NASCAR’s first eight-time champion. Apparently, that is not the case. Johnson is tied for the most […]
Given the right situation, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. believes his girlfriend still wants to be a race car driver. Danica Patrick will have to scramble to make that happen. And if the opportunity doesn’t present itself, well, she has plenty of other things to fill her time. Patrick is at a career crossroads and will not return […]
Kyle Larson won the regular-season finale Saturday at Richmond Raceway. At least for now. Nothing against Larson, but after what happened in the past week, it’s hard to be sure of anything in NASCAR these days. He’ll have to wait until Tuesday, when his car goes through an additional inspection at NASCAR’s research and development center, […]
A woman considered to be one of the top up-and-coming female drivers in NASCAR said she would “love to have a tampon on the side of my car.” Julia Landauer Julia Landauer, who competes in NASCAR’s K&N Pro Series West, made the statement to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in a profile of her and her racing […]
Journeyman Jeremy Clements and his small team topped big-name race organizations Sunday to clinch a first-ever victory in 256 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts.On the second-to-last lap of the Johnsonville 180 at Road America, Clements attempted to pass Matt Tifft for the lead. He wheeled his Chevrolet to the inside of Tifft’s Toyota Camry, sending both […]
Kyle Busch has won the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The #18 Joe Gibbs Racing driver held off a late charge by pole sitter and rookie Erik Jones to take his second win of the season and his third win of the week after […]
Martin Truex Jr. won a fuel-mileage gamble, holding off Matt Kenseth on the final lap to capture the NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen International on Sunday. Brad Keselowski had a big lead but was forced to pit with three laps to go. That gave the lead to Ryan Blaney, who began to run dry and […]
Kyle Busch’s celebratory burnout produced a cloud of smoke over the frontstretch at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, but Ryan Preece’s first run in top-of-the-line equipment made an even bigger impression in Saturday’s Overton’s 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race. After a major snafu on pit road took a potential win away from Brad Keselowski, who had […]
Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway signifies a few alerts such as it’s the first race of July. Only 10 races remain until the playoffs start with NBC taking over broadcasting duties. Maybe most of all, it could be Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s last race at Daytona as he’s set to retire at […]
Kyle Larson passed Kyle Busch to take the lead with 15 laps remaining, then withstood two late restarts to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Kyle Larson burn out Larson started on the pole and led a race-high 96 of 200 laps in scoring his second victory of the 2017 Monster […]
Darrell ‘’Bubba’’ Wallace Jr. is making history again. He is set to become the first African-American driver to race at NASCAR’s top level since 2006, starting this weekend at Pocono Raceway. Wallace will fill in for the injured Aric Almirola in the No. 43 Ford, according to a Richard Petty Motor sports team release, giving Wallace his first […]
Jimmie Johnson passed Kyle Larson in overtime to win the AAA 400 Drive for Autism race Sunday at Dover International Speedway.it was Johnson’s 83rd career NASCAR Cup victory, tying him for sixth with Cale Yarborough on the all-time list. Many fans could have almost seen this win coming Saturday, when Johnson unveiled a special commemorative driver’s helmet […]
Tony Kanaan has fired back at Lewis Hamilton over his recent comments about the competition level in the Verizon IndyCar Series. As Fernando Alonso was tackling the Indianapolis 500, Hamilton scoffed at how the Spaniard was able to be so competitive straight out of the box in qualifying. “To see him fifth against drivers who […]
After years away from the sport, the #3 is back in Victory Lane in the Cup Series. With a deep history, the number has finally come full circle again in NASCAR. Numbers mean everything in racing. From the position on course to the time on pit road, numbers mean so much to a team, driver […]
Danica Patrick’s Wonder Woman-branded NASCAR was engulfed in flames after getting into a wreck at the Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway on Saturday. The powers of Princess Diana of Themyscira seemed to protect Patrick, who walked away unscathed, but another driver was injured in the crash. Danica Patrick’s car is No. 10, ie the […]
The Big One is as inevitable at Talladega Superspeedway as sunrise.This particular Big One occurred on lap 169 of Sunday’s GEICO 500, and it was large indeed. Eighteen drivers — almost half the field — were involved. At the center of the latest conflagration at NASCAR’s biggest track were AJ Allmendinger and Chase Elliott. In […]
Jimmie Johnson proved on Sunday that you can’t keep a good driver, a good car and a good team down for long — even if you change the playing field at one of his favorite race tracks. The seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion passed Joey Logano for the lead on lap 318 of […]
BY: Mike Prison Autoweek This isn’t WWE: NASCAR must suspend Kyle Busch now OK, boys and girls, have at it. NASCAR has given the green light for fighting. Driver vs. driver. Driver vs. opposing crews. Opposing crews vs. opposing crews.Have at it. After all, it’s an emotional sport and things happen.NASCAR CEO Brian France had […]
NASCAR came up with all kinds of new gizmos to jazz up its product for the 2017 season.Turned out none of them was especially needed Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, where Kurt Busch won a completely enthralling Daytona 500.“We put on a performance those last 50 laps,” Busch said of a race that featured eight […]