(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service Heading into the eighth race of its debut 1984 season at Martinsville Speedway, Rick Hendrick was ready to shut down his fledgling All Star Racing team the next Monday. Plans changed following the race, however. Geoffrey Bodine piloted Hendrick’s No. 5 Chevrolet to Victory Lane, earning […]
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March 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—Take 125 horsepower out of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car, and it’s going to slow the car down, right? Well, not necessarily, as Friday’s qualifying session at Atlanta Motor Speedway proved emphatically. Joey Logano posted the fastest pole-winning speed at the 1.54-mile intermediate […]
Matt Crafton Annihilates Field In Dominant Atlanta Camping World Truck Series Win
March 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—There’s no letup in Matt Crafton. The two-time defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, Crafton charged to the front from his 15th-place starting position and ran away from the rest of the field in Saturday’s Hyundai Construction Equipment 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. […]
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. […]
Tyler Reddick Survives Wild Scramble To Win Daytona Camping World Truck Series Event
February 21, 2015 by 1 Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—As trucks fanned out four-wide behind him, Tyler Reddick took the first checkered flag of his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career in Friday night’s NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway. Behind the race winner, Erik Jones charged to the outside […]
Daytona Weekend Preview: Jeff Gordon’s ‘Great American’ Goodbye
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service Jeff Gordon kicked off his final full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season the best way he possibly could – by winning the Daytona 500 Coors Light Pole. The 43-year-old will attempt to launch his farewell full-schedule campaign in even grander fashion in Sunday’s 57th running […]
Daytona Notebook: NASCAR Modifies Daytona Qualifying Format For XFINITY Series And Truck Series
February 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Why have a five-minute qualifying session if no one is going to use the full five minutes? That was one of the rationales NASCAR considered in streamlining the time trial process for the NASCAR XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series for events to […]
NASCAR National Series News & Notes — Daytona International Speedway
February 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(Press Release from NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Next Race: Daytona 500 The Place: Daytona International Speedway The Date: Sunday, Feb. 22 The Time: 1 p.m. (ET) TV: FOX, Noon (ET) Radio: MRN, Sirius XM Ch. 90 Distance: 500 miles (250 laps) NASCAR XFINITY Series Next Race: Alert Today Florida 300 The […]
NASCAR Names Mike Helton Vice Chairman; Brent Dewar Added To Board of Directors
February 9, 2015 by 1 Comment
—— (Press Release from NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report NASCAR Wire Service NASCAR Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brian France announced two key personnel moves at the highest level of its executive leadership team on Monday, naming Mike Helton as Vice Chairman of NASCAR, and adding Chief Operating Officer Brent Dewar to the NASCAR Board […]
NASCAR Makes Two Key Competition Personnel Announcements
February 2, 2015 by 4 Comments
—— (Press Release from NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications) NASCAR today announced two leadership changes in its Competition department, including the selection of Chad Little to the new role of Managing Director, Technical Inspection/Officiating and Elton Sawyer to Managing Director, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Both assume their new responsibilities immediately. “NASCAR recently has made significant […]
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