(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – The honeymoon at Joe Gibbs Racing may be over. Yes, on Sunday at Richmond International Raceway, Carl Edwards won his second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in the Toyota Owners 400 and the fourth in a row for JGR, but he did […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – To bump or not to bump? That is the question. The person with the most eloquent answer to that existential question wasn’t Carl Edwards, who bumped his way to victory in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway. And it wasn’t Kyle […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – For the first time this season, the driver of the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet was the driver who was supposed to be behind the wheel. Returning sooner than expected from a burst fracture to his L1 vertebra suffered during an offseason all-terrain […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – With rain threatening to fall at Richmond International Raceway, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers put extra effort into Friday morning’s opening practice. The effort paid off for 2014 series champion Kevin Harvick, who was fastest in practice at 129.089 mph and consequently will […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service With a tweet released at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday morning, Tony Stewart announced that the wait was over, and he would return to racing this weekend at Richmond International Raceway – less than three months after fracturing his back in an all-terrain vehicle accident. Stewart, […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – The record will show that polesitter Carl Edwards won Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in dominating fashion, leading 276 of 500 laps and beating runner-up Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the finish line by .766 seconds. But while Edwards cruised to […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – No one was happier to see Trevor Bayne running with the leaders than Trevor Bayne. The driver of the No. 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford won the 2011 Daytona 500 in his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start, but that he hadn’t scored […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – Danica Patrick and Denny Hamlin had had their differences in the past, but what happened in Saturday morning’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice at Bristol Motor Speedway had nothing to do with old grudges. Nevertheless, contact between their two cars bent the […]