LONG POND, Pa. – Rain has forced the cancellation of NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying Friday at Pocono Raceway, putting points leader Tony Stewart on the pole for Sunday’s Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500. The field is set according to the NASCAR rulebook. Only 43 teams were at the track, so all competitors made the field.
LONG POND, Pa. – NASCAR officials say they have no plans to change the way they monitor pit-road speeds, or how and when that information is released to teams, despite questions in the aftermath of the July 26 Allstate 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
LONG POND, Pa. – Richard Petty Motorsports driver Kasey Kahne is pretty confident about his chances of making NASCAR’s Chase For The Sprint Cup. If the Chase began today, however, Kahne isn’t sure if his team could make a run at the title.
LONG POND, Pa. – Roush Fenway Racing’s Matt Kenseth says that his recent shift in sponsors is a sign of the economic struggles teams and sponsors are facing this season.
LONG POND, Pa. – By almost all accounts, Kurt Busch has put together a strong season this year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
NEWTON, Iowa – Penske Racing’s Justin Allgaier led Friday’s first NASCAR Nationwide Series practice at Iowa Speedway in preparation for Saturday’s inaugural U.S. Cellular 250.
LONG POND, Pa. – The Prelude to the Dream charity Dirt Late Model race at Eldora Speedway has been rescheduled for Sept. 9, track owner Tony Stewart announced Friday. And thanks to sponsorship from Gillette, the event will once more be available on HBO Pay-Per-View.
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Board of Directors directed their board chairperson and their interim executive director to begin negotiating for the rights to promote the Milwaukee Mile, according to a Fair Park news release.
NEWTON, Iowa – Iowa Speedway officials have worked on a bump in the track’s surface over the infield tunnel between turns 1 and 2, but Richard Childress Racing Nationwide Series drivers Austin Dillon and Stephen Leicht said it is still there.
The Kevin Harvick Inc. driver became the first in NASCAR Truck Series history to win four consecutive races with his victory last weekend at O’Reilly Raceway Park. Now, he will attempt to extend that record to five races this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway.
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Board of Directors directed their board chairperson and their interim executive director to begin negotiating for the rights to promote the Milwaukee Mile, according to a Fair Park news release.
LONG POND, Pa. – With the National Weather Service calling for a 100 percent chance of rain today at Pocono Raceway, the only thing the Sprint Cup drivers will worry much about is missing practice time.
NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Michael Annett came to Germain Racing by way of the ice-hockey rinks of Iowa and the Midwest. And after a cool start to the 2009 season, Annett is finally starting to heat up.
This week’s race at Pocono Raceway could mark a turning point for Kyle Busch.
LONG POND, Pa. – There were a lot of folks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend wondering why NASCAR didn’t pull the plug on qualifying when showers hit the track Saturday morning.
NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Michael Annett came to Germain Racing by way of the ice-hockey rinks of Iowa and the Midwest. And after a cool start to the 2009 season, Annett is finally starting to heat up.
LONG POND, Pa. – There were a lot of folks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend wondering why NASCAR didn’t pull the plug on qualifying when showers hit the track Saturday morning.
NEWTON, Iowa – Kevin Hamlin will serve as backup for Front Row Motorsports driver Tony Raines at Iowa Speedway for Friday’s practice and Saturday’s qualifying for the NASCAR Nationwide Series U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway.
NEWTON, Iowa – Phoenix Racing’s Mike Bliss posted the fastest speed in Thursday’s six-hour practice session at Iowa Speedway in preparation for this weekend’s inaugural U.S. Cellular 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race.
The speed.
NEWTON, Iowa – Kevin Hamlin will serve as backup for Front Row Motorsports driver Tony Raines at Iowa Speedway for Friday’s practice and Saturday’s qualifying for the NASCAR Nationwide Series U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway.
NEWTON, Iowa – Phoenix Racing’s Mike Bliss posted the fastest speed in Thursday’s six-hour practice session at Iowa Speedway in preparation for this weekend’s inaugural U.S. Cellular 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race.
The speed.
Dover Motorsports ended the first six months of 2009 with a net loss of $800,000, down 147 percent from a $1.699 million profit for the first six months of 2008.
CINCINNATI – Whether premium stock-car racing can be considered a “market” when determining a monopoly and whether NASCAR works with sister company International Speedway Corp. to keep tracks such as Kentucky Speedway off the Sprint Cup schedule were the primary issues discussed Thursday morning during a hearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
International Speedway Corp. and Chicago-based Premiere Global Sports announced today a multi-year licensing agreement.
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get much worse for Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch, here comes Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup event at Pocono Raceway.
Three NASCAR stock cars from Roush Fenway Racing were shown to the Argentinean media Wednesday during the presentation of the Turismo Carretera race that will be held next weekend at Potrero de los Funes circuit, located in the San Luis Province.
NASCAR Nationwide Series teams head to Iowa Speedway for the first time this weekend, and they’ll face a laundry list of concerns.
TRG Motorsports says that sports-car driver Andy Lally will attempt to make his NASCAR Sprint Cup debut in the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips race at Watkins Glen International on Aug. 9. Lally will join TRG Motorsports’ full-time driver David Gilliland in a second entry for the team.
This trip to Pocono Raceway is always a little different for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams. After all, they just raced at the track the first weekend in June.
What should NASCAR Nationwide Series competitors expect when they get to Iowa for Saturday’s U.S. Cellular 250? Corn, says Germain Racing’s Michael Annett, a native of Des Moines, Iowa, some 30 miles west of Iowa Speedway,
Lisa Mayfield, stepmother of Jeremy Mayfield, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the suspended NASCAR driver/owner for comments he made after she testified in an affidavit that she had seen Jeremy use methamphetamines.