(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service NASCAR’s Sprint All-Star Race is not your typical professional sports exhibition. Despite not counting toward season points, it’s not all fun and games. Competitors don’t act buddy-buddy or attempt flashy moves just for show. The reason why? Its winner takes home $1 million. Jimmie Johnson knows […]
National NASCAR Notebook: Jimmie Johnson Hopes To Shine In Sprint All-Star Race At Charlotte
May 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Kyle Busch To Remain Eligible For NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase For The Championship
May 13, 2015 by 6 Comments
(Press Release from NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications) NASCAR announced today that Kyle Busch will remain eligible to compete for the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. Busch will qualify for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup by meeting all requirements of eligibility excluding Rule 17.6.2.1.a, which requires a driver to start all Championship Events […]
Kyle Busch Will Return To NASCAR Sprint Cup Competition In Sprint All-Star Race In Charlotte
May 12, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service Returning to racing sooner than expected after an injury sustained at Daytona in February, Kyle Busch will see his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series action of the year in Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway (9 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1). […]
Jimmie Johnson Secures Third Sprint Cup Win Of The Season Saturday In Kansas
May 10, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jim Pedley ~ NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Thanks to a brief but wild Kansas spring storm and the long delay it produced, Jimmie Johnson on Sunday became the first Sprint Cup driver to win a race on Mother’s Day since 2007. Johnson, who is pursuing a record-tying seventh NASCAR […]
NASCAR Kansas Notebook: Jamie McMurray Unemotional About Kansas
May 9, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jim Pedley ~ NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Missouri native Carl Edwards and Kansas native Clint Bowyer both got quite vocal, quite emotional the other day trying to explain what a victory in Saturday night’s SpongeBob SquarePants 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway would mean to them. […]
Matt Crafton Grabs Kansas Camping World Truck Series Win On Fuel Mileage
May 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jim Pedley ~ NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Matt Crafton didn’t have the fastest truck in Friday night’s Toyota Tundra 250 at Kansas Speedway, but he had the best feel for fuel mileage and what his crew chief would call their lucky fuel cell. The result was Crafton’s seventh series […]
Joey Logano Wins Pole For Sprint Cup SpongeBob SquarePants 400 At Kansas Speedway
May 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jim Pedley ~ NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Joey Logano strengthened his standing as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ 2015 Qualifying Meister on Friday night as he won the Coors Light Pole Award for Saturday night’s SpongeBob SquarePants 400 at Kansas Speedway. The pole was the fourth in 11 attempts […]
NASCAR Kansas Notebook: Bowyer Gets Lesson In Speeding
May 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jim Pedley ~ NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – So, when is 95 miles per hour scarier than 200 mph? For Clint Bowyer it was when a very, very hard baseball came at him at 95 as he stood in a batter’s box at Kauffman Stadium earlier this week. Bowyer, driver […]
NASCAR Kansas Notebook: Daniel Suarez Not Worried By Little Things Like Rain
May 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jim Pedley ~ NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The rain was coming down hard and pooling up across the garage area at a rate that was putting Thursday afternoon practices for Friday night’s Toyota Tundra 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Kansas Speedway in serious jeopardy. Might have been […]
NASCAR Kansas Preview: Clint Bowyer, Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray Ready For Hometrack Show
May 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service Before he began trading paint in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Clint Bowyer was a 23-year-old body shop worker at Emporia Motors in his hometown of Emporia, Kansas. At the time (2003), he raced cars, and won titles, at local tracks, including Thunderhill, Lakeside and I-70 […]
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