(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga. – With wrecks erupting behind him, Jimmie Johnson took the checkered flag in overtime under caution in Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway—and then he remembered. Almost lost in the euphoria of Johnson’s second straight victory at the 1.54-mile track […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga. – It didn’t dawn on race runner-up Dale Earnhardt Jr. right away that Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson had tied his father, Dale Earnhardt Sr., for seventh on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series all-time victory list. But Johnson’s fifth victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway, […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service In a move that startled the NASCAR world and signaled a paradigm shift in the balance of power among manufacturers in the sport, Stewart-Haas Racing announced on Wednesday a switch from Chevrolet to Ford starting in 2017. Stewart-Haas has been a Chevrolet team since three-time NASCAR […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Most of the time, when an athlete talks about a “team victory,” it’s nothing more than a sports cliché. But Denny Hamlin’s win in Sunday’s Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway—by the closest margin in the history of the Great American Race—was […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Mark McCarter ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla – There is a new sponsor and a bright, glitzy new paint job for Martin Truex Jr., whose 2015 car was black as a funeral suit. Still, two more coats of new paint on the front bumper and Truex is the Daytona 500 […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dave Wilson didn’t mince words. “This is very difficult for me to put in words,” said the president of Toyota Racing Development. “I cannot articulate adequately what this means to Toyota. “I’ll start by saying it’s our single biggest race in our […]