MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Brad Keselowski led 446 of 500 laps in winning Sunday’s STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway. An easy victory, right? Well, not exactly. After Keselowski’s pit crew put him in the lead for a restart on Lap 380, the driver of the No. 2 Team Penske Ford spent the rest of the race […]
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March 24, 2019 by 1 Comment
Martinsville Notebook: Questions About 2018 Bump-And-Run Still Dog Joey Logano
March 23, 2019 by Leave a Comment
MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Joey Logano offers understanding, but no apologies. After he applied the bumper to Martin Truex Jr.’s Toyota in the final corner of last year’s fall race at Martinsville Speedway, Logano edged past Truex for the race victory and a guaranteed berth in the Championship 4 event at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In that season […]
Monster Energy Cup Rookie Ryan Preece Has Set His Sights High For 2019
March 22, 2019 by 19 Comments
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Even JTG Daugherty Racing’s Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate, Ryan Preece, can appreciate the irony. For a young talented driver renowned for his short track background and expertise, his best showing so far this year is a top-10 in the Daytona 500 on the sport’s most famous superspeedway. Preece, 28, […]
NASCAR Notebook: Denny Hamlin Sees Small Universe Of Potential Winners At Martinsville
March 22, 2019 by 1 Comment
MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Denny Hamlin, who won the most recent Daytona 500 on a 2.5-mile track, is happy to be visiting NASCAR’s oldest and shortest Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series speedway this weekend. In Hamlin’s view, .526-mile Martinsville Speedway features something else that’s short—the list of potential winners. “There’s really five guys that are kind […]
Ryan Preece Heads To Martinsville Speedway Sunday Looking For Short Track Turnaround
March 22, 2019 by 5 Comments
For former NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion Ryan Preece, the last four weeks on the NASCAR Montser Energy Cup Series haven’t been much to put a smile on his face. Sunday the Monster Energy Cup Series Rookie of the Year contender heads back to a race track that helps to give him smiles every day. […]
NASCAR National Weekend Preview: Martinsville
March 22, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The NASCAR short track season is officially upon us – huge grins, high spirits, bumpers and intensity all around. Sunday’s STP 500 at the half-mile Martinsville Speedway (at 2 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) opens the test of gumption, patience and short track mastery for the season. Certainly the last time the […]
Free Unmuffled Quickcast With Kevin Harvick On Stafford Speedway, Short Track Racing
March 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
On Friday in California, Motor Racing Network announcer Kyle Rickey asked NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick about the announcement this week that his company, KHI Management, would return to Stafford Speedway in 2019 as a contingency and double their contingency award from what it was in 2018. Harvick went in depth talking […]
Kevin Harvick And KHI Management Double Down On Stafford Speedway SK Mod Bonus For 2019
March 13, 2019 by 17 Comments
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series star Kevin Harvick and his company KHI Management are back in Connecticut short track racing. Partnering with Stafford Speedway in Stafford Springs, CT for the 2nd consecutive season, Harvick and KHI Management are set to present the same two weekly bonuses to Stafford’s SK Modified® division as last season but […]
Kyle Busch Scores Monster Cup Victory At Phoenix; Now Has 199 National Series NASCAR Wins
March 10, 2019 by 2 Comments
AVONDALE, Ariz. – There was an air of inevitability to Kyle Busch’s closing run in Sunday’s TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway. Busch was tracking down race leader Ryan Blaney after restarting fourth on Lap 239 of the fourth Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race of the season. Running in Blaney’s wake for 37 laps, Busch […]
Castigating NASCAR Superstars For Disconnect With Short Track Racing Is Absurd
March 8, 2019 by 28 Comments
Jimmie Johnson is a seven-time Monster Energy Cup Series champion and certain Hall of Famer who has through his career proved himself to be a model citizen among his peers and an impeccable ambassador for NASCAR as a whole. Though Johnson has never been one to moonlight at short track events, or even make many […]
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