With both of Thursday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice sessions all but rained out (only eight cars made it on track during the first practice before it was delayed), Friday morning’s practice became the only practice session this weekend at Daytona International Speedway for the Cup cars. Brian Scott ended up turning the fastest lap of …
After 111 races, 84 starts, three years and multiple physical/emotional hardships, Tony Stewart is once again a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series winner. Stewart’s victory came at the 1.99-mile road course of Sonoma Raceway, site of two of his 48 Cup victories, after inheriting the lead with 21 laps to go due to pit strategy. Crew chief …
Friday saw the only two Sprint Cup Series practices of the Sonoma Raceway weekend, featuring Kyle Larson and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. as the fastest in the first and second respectively. Larson, whose hometown of Elk Grove, Calif., is roughly two hours away from Sonoma, is riding off a lot of momentum in the past month. …
David Starr, RSS Racing and Massimo Motor Sports announced Thursday that Starr would be in the No. 93 Chevrolet for the rest of the NASCAR XFINITY Series season, beginning with the July 1st race at Daytona. Starr, 48, will be racing in a NASCAR national touring series for the first time since being released from TriStar …
William Byron won his second Camping World Truck Series race of the season after getting around a dominant Matt Crafton with just five laps to go. Crafton had led 133 laps of the 167-lap race before being passed by the 18-year-old Byron. Crafton had recovered after causing the first caution of the night by cutting …
Johnny Sauter completed a lap of 180.024 mph on Friday afternoon and won the pole for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday night. It’s the first pole for the Wisconsin driver since 2013, which also came at the June race at Texas. It is his fifth overall and third in the Lone Star State. Starting …
Carl Edwards was fastest in the brief Friday morning Sprint Cup Series practice at Pocono Speedway after turning a lap at 179.802 mph. The session, originally scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. local time, was first delayed twenty minutes for fog. Then, after just 28 drivers had made their way onto the 2.5-mile …
With Tony Stewart‘s retirement on the horizon, the role of owner-driver in the Sprint Cup Series may potentially be reaching its final chapter. The addition of franchising combined with the expenses of running a top-tier program these days makes it difficult to see another athlete hopping on that bandwagon. Stewart, though, isn’t like most owner-drivers in the history of …
On Friday, a familiar name for hardcore NASCAR video game fans was announced to be the next installment in the NASCAR video game series. Dusenberry Martin Racing, a company that is committed to creating NASCAR games on consoles, PC, and on smartphones for the next four years, finally announced their new NASCAR game as NASCAR Heat …
New formats for both the NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star race and the Sprint Showdown were announced Friday afternoon. There will be three segments of 50, 50, and 13 laps for the All-Star race. The field will still be set by qualifying. Both 50 lap segments will feature the field having to take a minimum two …
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