(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Don’t underestimate the importance of career milestones for Jeff Gordon, as the driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet makes his final tour around the speedways that are home to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Gordon crossed off an item from his […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS, Nev.— Scratch one small item off Jeff Gordon’s swan song bucket list. With a track-record lap at 194.679 mph, Jeff Gordon won the pole for Sunday’s Kobalt 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, one of three active Cup […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS, Nev. – It was a different place but a familiar scene for Michael Waltrip Racing driver Brian Vickers. “I feel like we’ve had this press conference before,” Vickers quipped on Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he’ll return to racing in Sunday’s […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service Tuesday’s national and international release of H.A. Branham’s biography “Big Bill: The Life and Times of NASCAR Founder Bill France Sr.” signifies far more than the appearance of the long-awaited chronicle of the life and work of the man who transformed stock car racing. For […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—Coors Light Polesitter Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick dominated the early and middle stages of Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway—before Jimmie Johnson decided to crash the party. Johnson didn’t take the lead in the second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—It’s safe to say Jeff Gordon’s retirement tour has not gone according to plan. A week ago in the Daytona 500, Gordon was involved in the wreck that forced the race to end under caution and finished 33rd. On Sunday in the NASCAR Sprint […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—When you’re hot, you’re hot. Joey Logano, last week’s Daytona 500 winner, didn’t slow down one iota on Friday in the first competition of the year at an open-motor track. With a lap at 194.683 mph in the final round of NASCAR Sprint Cup […]

 (NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—His victory in the May 2013 restrictor-plate free-for-all at Talladega Superspeedway notwithstanding, David Ragan has lived below the radar in his three seasons with Front Row Motorsports. Ragan’s low-profile status changed suddenly and dramatically last Saturday, however, after Kyle Busch’s No. 54 NASCAR XFINITY […]