(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service   LAS VEGAS – NASCAR announced on Thursday at Wynn Las Vegas a multi-year deal that will make Monster Energy only the third entitlement sponsor in premier series history. The length and terms of the deal were not disclosed, but both parties hailed the partnership as […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Call him Seven-Time. Jimmie Johnson joined NASCAR’s most exclusive club on Sunday, winning the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway to claim his seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, putting the driver of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on par with icons […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Mike Hembree ~ NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla. – In his rear-view mirror, Carl Edwards saw his shot at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship dissolving. On a restart with 10 laps to go in the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, with the title on the line, Joey Logano shot deep […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service AVONDALE, Ariz. – Joey Logano earned a return trip to the Championship 4 at Homestead-Miami Speedway after a year’s absence. Kyle Busch will head to the South Florida track to try to defend his 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title. And Kevin Harvick won’t be competing […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C. – After Sunday’s victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson can proclaim justifiably “The Boys are Back in Town.” But for five other Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers, all of whom finished 30th or worse in the rain-delayed Bank of America 500, […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C. – Carl Edwards and his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates have high expectations in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup – if only they can catch a certain “rabbit.” The hare in question is Martin Truex Jr., who drives the No. 78 Furniture Row […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DOVER, Del. – A catastrophe at New Hampshire could have knocked Austin Dillon out of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup—if the driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing had let it. But Dillon and crew chief Slugger Labbe came to the elimination race […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DOVER, Del. – It was a Martin Truex Jr. blowout, a Jamie McMurray blow-up and a Jimmie Johnson “We blew it again.” Truex cruised to a decisive victory in Sunday’s Citizen Soldier 400 at Dover International Speedway, a race that pared the Chase for the NASCAR […]