(NASCAR Wire Service) Jeff Olson ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Austin Dillon led just nine laps Saturday night, including the one that mattered most. Dillon, grandson of legendary team owner Richard Childress, outlasted Elliott Sadler and Chase Elliott during a green-white-checkered finish to claim the crash-filled Subway Firecracker 250, the NASCAR XFINITY Series […]
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Austin Dillon Wins XFINITY Series Subway Firecracker 250 At Daytona International Speedway
July 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
NASCAR Daytona Notebook: Squier-Hall Award For NASCAR Media Excellence To Steve Byrnes
July 4, 2015 by 1 Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jeff Olson ~ NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR posthumously honored Steve Byrnes by awarding him the Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR Media Excellence on Saturday. Byrnes, who died of cancer April 21 at the age of 56, will be honored during the induction ceremony Jan. 22 at the NASCAR Hall of […]
NASCAR Daytona Preview: Tony Stewart Can Make Daytona Dash For Chase Berth
July 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service Throughout his 17-year NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career, Tony Stewart has averaged 17.5 top-10 finishes per season. This year, he only claims one – a sixth-place showing in April at Bristol. And there are only 20 races left. Stewart’s struggles have put him in an unescapable hole […]
Wheels Of ‘Fortune’: NASCAR Sees Fortune 500 Involvement Increase
July 1, 2015 by 3 Comments
(NASCAR Wire Service) Seth Livingstone ~ NASCAR Wire Service Technology, in the form of Fortune 500 investment, is reinforcing the notion that NASCAR makes good business sense. For the third consecutive year, the number of Fortune 500 companies utilizing NASCAR as part of their marketing mix has increased. In fact, nearly half of America’s Fortune 100 […]
Local XFINITY Series Driver Charles Lewandoski To Help The Simon Foundation, Inc. Save Pets’ Lives
June 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
NASCAR XFINITY Series driver Charles Lewandoski has partnered with The Simon Foundation, Inc. in an effort to spread the word of the preservation and adoption of dogs and cats that would otherwise be abandoned, neglected, abused or euthanized. Lewandoski, a Stafford Springs, Connecticut native who now resides in Mooresville, North Carolina, is the newest ambassador for […]
NASCAR National Series Preview: Pattern Of Parity At Sonoma Raceway
June 25, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(Press Release from NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications) You don’t have to be Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking to notice the pattern of parity at Sonoma Raceway. The last 10 races at the road course have produced 10 different winners. Two of those drivers – Tony Stewart in 2005 and Jimmie Johnson in 2010 – went […]
Erik Jones Completes Two-Track Weekend Sweep With Xfinity Series Win At Chicagoland
June 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jack McCarthy ~ NASCAR Wire Service JOLIET, Ill. — Erik Jones’ last-ditch push had a victory payoff on Sunday. Neck-and-neck with Ryan Blaney entering the final dozen laps, Jones finally slipped ahead after a restart and rolled to a 1.958-second victory margin in Sunday’s Owens Corning AttiCat 300 race at Chicagoland Speedway. “I […]
NASCAR Chicagoland Notebook: Ross Kenseth Shrugs Off Practice Spin For Front Row Start
June 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Jack McCarthy ~ NASCAR Wire Service JOLIET, Ill. — Ross Kenseth had a bumpy introduction to Chicagoland Speedway’s 1.5-mile oval during Friday’s practice as he prepared for his NASCAR XFINITY Series debut. Kenseth, the son of the 2003 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Matt Kenseth, caught a rough patch in turn four and […]
NASCAR National Weekend Preview: Chase Elliott Eyes Xfinity Series Points Lead
June 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service Despite being from Atlanta, over 700 miles away from Chicago, Chase Elliott happens to really like the Windy City. He grabbed his latest win there last July, vaulted to the top of the standings, and stayed there, using the momentum to run away with the NASCAR XFINITY […]
Matt Kenseth And Son Ross Kenseth Eager For Memorable Father’s Day Weekend At Chicagoland
June 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment
(NASCAR Wire Service) Staff Report ~ NASCAR Wire Service On Father’s Day weekend in the Kenseth family – everyone wins. Son Ross Kenseth intends to give his father something only an aspiring racing prodigy can deliver, and father Matt Kenseth prepares to hand over the wheels of the No. 20 Dollar General Toyota in an epic […]
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