(NASCAR Wire Service) By Holly Cain ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Rick Hendrick conceded with a smile that when he first began interacting with driver Alex Bowman two years ago he sometimes mistakenly referred to the young racer as Alex Baldwin. Getting Bowman’s name right certainly isn’t an issue now as it goes down […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – For once, as he put it, Brad Keselowski didn’t “choke away” a chance at victory during Speedweeks at Daytona. Just the opposite. Taking the lead on Lap 39 of the Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona International Speedway, Keselowski held it the rest […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Junior Nation, you have a new standard bearer. Alex Bowman, the successor to Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, couldn’t have had a more auspicious start to the next phase of his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – When is “worse” actually “better?” When a driver talks about the way his race car handles. “Worse” in racer parlance means tougher to drive, and to the elite drivers in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, that’s a good thing. The stars of […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Holly Cain ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dressed simply in blue jeans and a black polo shirt with a GoDaddy-green sponsor patch, Danica Patrick addressed the assembled NASCAR media Friday morning – one of the last times she will do so as a professional race car driver. The last time […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Holly Cain ~ NASCAR Wire Service Only four days after confirming that her longtime sponsor GoDaddy would sponsor her final Daytona 500 attempt next month, Danica Patrick announced Monday she will make that last NASCAR start driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro with Premium Motorsports. The team will be led by […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Holly Cain ~ NASCAR Wire Service Regarding it as “the ultimate fit,” Danica Patrick announced Thursday that GoDaddy would be sponsoring her cars in the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 this year – the “Danica Double” sendoff to her historic career competing in big time auto racing. Fittingly, Patrick will […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) By Holly Cain ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Four Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series teams will officially bring in the sport’s New Year during a two-day Goodyear tire test at Texas Motor Speedway this week. Newly-crowned Monster Energy Series champion Martin Truex Jr. (Toyota) joins new Team Penske driver […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS – Tony Stewart had some sage advice for Dale Earnhardt Jr., as NASCAR’s most popular driver faced his first season of retirement from full-time driving in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. “Stewart told me that first year’s a weird one,” Earnhardt said on […]