(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 […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – When Carl Edwards wins the pole at Bristol, good things happen – for Edwards. So forgive the driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing if he feels optimistic about Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway (1 p.m. ET on FOX), […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – Kyle Busch likes his chances. Last week at Texas Motor Speedway, the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion swept the XFINITY Series and Cup races — a week after winning both the Camping World Truck Series and Cup races at Martinsville Speedway. Busch […]