http://youtu.be/FK4VzKHJmw8 NASCAR’s Super Bowl ad hasn’t gone over as well as anticipated. As of Tuesday morning, a Change.org petition from a user named Gluten Dude had collected more than 18,300 signatures against the ad and in support of Celiac disease awareness. The tongue-and-cheek commerical conveys a hardcore, beer-guzzling, American flag-donning, bull-riding NASCAR fan that rejects […]
Scott Dixon spearheads Chip Ganassi Ford to a fine victory on the 2015 Rolex 24 at Daytona after a seven minute sprint to the flag.Scott Dixon has led Chip Ganassi Ford to victory in the 2015 Rolex 24 at Daytona after surviving a late caution period and seven minute dash to hold firm for a […]
For quite some time now it has been known that National Guard was on their way out of the NASCAR business. This notion became evident when a review panel decided the National Guard was wasting its money on the sport last year and it became even more evident when Dale Earnhardt Jr. took on Nationwide […]
Kevin Harvick jostled his 2-year-old son on his lap, egging him on to speak into the microphone and tell the world his daddy was the NASCAR champion. “Say, ‘We win,’” said Harvick, who beamed during the celebration.Keelan Harvick clammed up in the moment and stayed quiet. That’s OK. Kevin Harvick made the only statements needed […]
Chase Elliott became the youngest champion in NASCAR history on Saturday when he wrapped up the Nationwide Series title at Phoenix International Raceway.The 18-year-old rookie is the youngest driver to win a title in any of NASCAR’s three national series. He broke the mark set by Brian Vickers, who was 20 when he won the […]
FORT WORTH, Texas Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 was moving along at a record pace with one caution in the first 175 laps.It could have easily been called uneventful.It certainly didn’t end that way.In the final laps, after a track-record 13 cautions, Jeff Gordon and Brad Keselowski made contact on the track which knocked Gordon out […]
The wide appeal of NASCAR driver Danica Patrick may be obvious to some but it’s really a bit more complex. Because behind her dashing good looks is someone ready for a fight. In New York Wednesday to greet fans and promote her new limited edition Tissot watch, Patrick wasn’t shy about giving her opinion on […]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. thought he knew Rick Hendrick’s pain.Earnhardt, whose father died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, knows the sorrow of unexpectedly losing a loved one.Hendrick also experienced tragedy when he lost his son, Ricky, his brother, John, John’s daughters Jennifer and Kimberly, Hendrick Motorsports general manager Jeff Turner, engine builder […]
NASCAR drivers brawled in the pit lane on Saturday after a number of feisty incidents on the track.Kevin Harvick was celebrating his victory in the Sprint Cup in Concord, North Carolina, but all the attention was quickly diverted elsewhere as running battles erupted. The post-race chaos was triggered when Brad Keselowski bumped both Denny Hamlin […]
Slowly and somberly, Tony Stewart is trying his best to find his new normal.He may never again be the “Smoke” the racing world knew before Aug. 9, the night a sprint car he was driving struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. at an upstate New York dirt track. The three-time NASCAR champion was fiery on […]
Cole Custer’s first stand as a NASCAR winner landed him in the stock car record book.Custer became the youngest winner in a NASCAR national series race at 16, taking the checkered flag at New Hampshire in his seventh career Truck Series start. Custer dominated early and pulled away late off the final restart Saturday to […]
Nothing is sacred and nothing is safe By: golfermike (Diary) Last week we learned the investigation into Kevin Wards death was completed by the Ontario Sheriff’s office and turned over to the DA. Today we learned the DA is taking the case to the Grand Jury. In some states it’s necessary to take any case […]
Danica Patrick had a career night Sunday at Atlanta.It took a bit of luck in the form of two timely cautions, but Danica Patrick finished a career-best sixth Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway.The result surpasses Patrick’s previous best finish of seventh at Kansas Speedway in May. The best performance by a female driver in […]
Will Power admits he struggled with the spectre of past near misses before finally securing the IndyCar championship he craved in California.A three-time runner-up, who experienced heartbreaking crashes in the final race of the season in 2010 and 2012, Power finally landed the IndyCar title with a ninth-place finish in the 500-mile season finale on […]
It’s mid-July, and Kaz Grala is having a bad day. It started yesterday, when he qualified for the Granite State 100 on a sick engine. NASCAR didn’t give the go-ahead to swap it out until late last night, and he started today’s race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 30th place with no time […]
Gordon gearing up for 750th career start this weekend.Jeff Gordon will become one of just 11 drivers to ever compete in at least 750 NASCAR Sprint Cup races. He joins HOF’ers and former champions such as Richard Petty, Terry Labonte, Bill Elliott, and Darrell Waltrip in this elite group. What makes this even more impressive […]
Stewart to return after three-week hiatus.Tony Stewart will return to Sprint Cup competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus taken after he struck and killed a fellow driver during a dirt-track race.The three-time NASCAR champion has not raced since his car hit Kevin Ward Jr. at an Aug. 9 sprint car […]
2003 Sprint Cup champ writes first of four books Matt Kenseth and his wife Katie have co-authored a children’s book about bullying. It’s the first of four books in the “Race for Success” series.Matt Kenseth is a heck of a race-car driver, and now he’s trying his hand at writing. The 2003 NASCAR Sprint […]
BRISTOL, Tenn. Joey Logano surged past Matt Kenseth with 44 laps to go and won for the first time in his career at Bristol Motor Speedway, foiling Kenseth’s gambling attempt to secure a spot in NASCAR’s playoffs.Logano became the fifth driver this season to win three times, joining the Hendrick Motorsports trio of Jeff Gordon, […]
No other driver has as many Toyota NASCAR starts, wins or accomplishments to his credit as driver Kyle Busch. Busch will make his 500th career NASCAR start in a Toyota this Saturday when he climbs behind the wheel of a Tundra race truck at Michigan International Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) […]
US police have found “no criminal behaviour” on race driver Tony Stewart’s part but will continue their probe into the bizarre incident in which he struck and killed an up-and-coming driver.Stewart, one of the most popular drivers in America’s NASCAR stock car circuit, ploughed into 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. during a non-NASCAR race on a […]
NASCAR Sprint Cup star Tony Stewart could be facing some pretty serious consequences.After striking and killing Kevin Ward Jr. during a sprint car race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park on Saturday night, Stewart could face a range of penalties from criminal charges to civil lawsuits, according to a Criminal Lawyer Chicago. After the news broke, thousands […]
On Saturday night NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver and team owner Tony Stewart was racing his sprint car at Canandaigua Speedway in upstate New York in the Empire Super Sprint car series — and hit and killed a teenage driver who had left his car and was approaching Stewart, who was still under power. Kevin […]
Ex-formula one racer Nelson Piquet is returning to the NASCAR circuit this weekend, but he is moving up the ranks.Brazilian racer Nelson Piquet Jr. is remembered in Formula One as the son of a former champion caught up in a massive scandal. He’s remembered in NASCAR as that guy who tried to kick Brian Scott below […]
By: Carl Taylor, Special contributor Motorsport.com Formula 1, NASCAR, and other motorsport have gotten to rich for their own good, and they now they are paying the consequences.We are all aware of the tough financial climate that we currently live in. Times are hard world wide, including the world of motorsports. You only have to […]
In front of 70,000, Jeff Gordon and his No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet has won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Crown Royal presents The John Wayne Walding 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana with a fabulous lap 143 restart catapulting himself around Kasey Kahne. For Gordon, it is his second win of the 2014 season, […]
Driver Morgan Shepherd gets ready for practice for Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon on Saturday. It’s been almost two decades since Morgan Shepherd last ran a full Sprint Cup season, and his last national series victory was in 1993. He can still probably wheel a race car better than […]
Considering NASCAR has its roots with the Moonshine runners from the Prohibition years, the sport has come an incredibly long way in a relatively short space of time.What isn’t particuarly well known in its home land of the USA, is just how big the sport is becoming in Europe, and especially Great Britain. At […]
On the eve of Toyota’s entrance into NASCAR’s Truck Series in 2004, Cup Series driver Jimmy Spencer had one of those did-he-just-say-that moments when asked about the sport’s newest manufacturer. “Those sons of bitches bombed Pearl Harbor, don’t forget,” Spencer said in an interview at Texas Motor Speedway. “As long as it’s good for the […]
BROOKLYN, Mich. – After a slow start to the Sprint Cup season — by his standards — Jimmie Johnson appears poised for a run at yet another championship. His latest victory came at one of the few tracks where the six-time champion had never won before. “We said coming into it that we thought it […]