Kyle Busch forged ahead of the pack on the final two laps yesterday to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway. With the win, Busch became the first driver to clinch a spot in the Chase, which begins in three weeks at Chicagoland. The victory is Busch’s first at [...]
Wait, is there hair-pulling in NASCAR, because frankly that doesn’t seem very manly. Yes, during yesterday’s Napa Auto Parts 200, Nationwide Series racer Steve Wallace took out Patrick Carpentier in a mid-race wreck. Carpentier’s crew chief Jerry Baxter didn’t like that very much, so afterward, he attacked Wallace before he could even get out of [...]
It looks as though the die has been cast. Danica Patrick and sponsor GoDaddy will announce their plans for 2012 next week in Phoenix, Arizona. A press conference is set for Wednesday, August 24 at 10 a.m. PDT. It now appears all but certain that Patrick, 29, will run the full season in the Nationwide [...]
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Gentlemen, start your engines! Canadian driver Maryeve Dufault will be making her NASCAR debut this Saturday in the Nationwide Series Napa Auto Parts 200 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Dufault, who began racing in the ARCA Series earlier this year, used to be a model on the game show The Price is Right [...]
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With less than 2 weeks to go until the historic Baltimore Grand Prix, the race’s founder has just filed a $750,000 lawsuit against the event’s organizers. Steven C. Wehner says Baltimore Racing Development LLC, the company that he formed in his mother’s basement five years ago, failed to pay him $575,000 over five years to [...]
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Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton mixed it up over the weekend when they bumped into each other under a caution flag at Texas Motor Speedway. This is one way to boost NASCAR ratings for sure! Burton, being the class act that he is, took full responsibility for the incident. “He pulled up next to me [...]
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Jack Roush, a NASCAR team owner, is in serious but stable condition after walking away from a plane crash in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith says Roush may need surgery, but he and his passenger were able to walk out of the plane. Roush had bee flying his own plane and [...]
