(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—His victory in the May 2013 restrictor-plate free-for-all at Talladega Superspeedway notwithstanding, David Ragan has lived below the radar in his three seasons with Front Row Motorsports. Ragan’s low-profile status changed suddenly and dramatically last Saturday, however, after Kyle Busch’s No. 54 NASCAR XFINITY […]
NASCAR Atlanta Notebook: Kyle Busch’s Injury Puts A Sharper Focus On David Ragan
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NASCAR National Weekend Preview: Kasey Kahne Goes For Repeat At Atlanta
February 25, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service Kasey Kahne was in desperation mode at Atlanta Motor Speedway last August. Sitting in 18th on the Chase Grid – 33 points below the 16th-place cut off line – the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports driver needed a win to make NASCAR’s playoffs. Kahne came through. […]
Celebratory Homecoming: Joey Logano Speeds Through Whirlwind Tour As Daytona 500 Champ
February 23, 2015 by 6 Comments
It’s become an annual rite of winning NASCAR’s biggest event. Win the Daytona 500 and it means a trip within a couple days afterward to run the gauntlet of media variety that is the ESPN campus in Bristol. For most drivers, leaving Daytona to head for chilly Bristol, CT in February might seem a bit […]
Scoring The Big One: Joey Logano Wins The Daytona 500
February 22, 2015 by 3 Comments
In 1997, then 7-year old Joey Logano told the Hartford Courant that one day he would be Jeff Gordon’s worst nightmare in NASCAR events. Sunday NASCAR Nation began a season-long farewell to the retiring Gordon with the sport’s legend starting on the pole for the season opening Daytona 500. And when the day was over […]
Kurt Busch Exhausts All Appeals, Indefinite NASCAR Suspension To Stand
February 21, 2015 by 1 Comment
NASCAR officials announced late this evening that Kurt Busch has now exhausted all his available appeals of the indefinite suspension handed down to him on Friday. Busch went through NASCAR two appeal levels on Saturday. Below is the text of a press release from NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications announcing the denial of the second appeal […]
Matt Crafton To Replace Kyle Busch For Joe Gibbs Racing In Daytona 500
February 21, 2015 by 1 Comment
Two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Matt Crafton will take over the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Sprint Cup Series car for Sunday’s Daytona 500, in place of Kyle Busch, according to a statement from Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch was injured in a crash during Saturday’s Xfinity Series event at Daytona International Speedway. Crafton won […]
Ryan Reed Gets First XFINITY Series Win; Crash Knocks Kyle Busch Out Of Daytona 500
February 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—With a spectacular last-lap move to the inside, not to mention a timely shove from Roush Fenway Raceway teammate Chris Buescher, Ryan Reed stormed to his first NASCAR XFINITY Series victory in Saturday’s Alert Today Florida 300 at Daytona International Speedway. “Oh, my […]
Daytona Notebook: Kurt Busch Suspension Means Big Opportunity For Regan Smith
February 21, 2015 by 1 Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—When the green flag flies for the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Regan Smith will be behind the wheel of the No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet, subbing for suspended driver Kurt Busch. Last-minute relief jobs are nothing new to Smith, who took drove the […]
Kurt Busch’s First Appeal Of Indefinite NASCAR Suspension Denied
February 21, 2015 by 4 Comments
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—The National Motorsports Appeals Panel on Saturday denied Kurt Busch’s appeal of an indefinite suspension imposed by NASCAR on Friday in the aftermath of a finding by the Family Court in the State of Delaware that Busch had likely committed domestic abuse against […]
NASCAR Indefinitely Suspends Sprint Cup Series Driver Kurt Busch
February 21, 2015 by 2 Comments
(Press Release from NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications) NASCAR has indefinitely suspended driver Kurt Busch for actions detrimental to stock car racing following the release today of a supplemental disposition setting forth the findings and conclusions that formed the basis for the Family Court of the State of Delaware’s decision on Monday to issue an Order […]
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