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RacinToday.com JD Motorsports announced Wednesday that it will field a second car for the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series season. Johnny Davis, owner of JD Motorsports, will field the No. 4 Chevrolet to double their efforts on the track this season. Mike Wallace will continue to drive the No. 01 Chevrolet for JD Motorsports on a full-time basis with [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32859/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32482 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32482#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:57:16 +0000 Jim Pedley http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32482
RacinToday.com NASCAR’s Busch brothers will spend the 2012 Nationwide Series season as teammates. Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Monster Energy Company as primary sponsor of the team’s No. 54 Monster Energy Camry in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Team owner Kyle Busch, will share driving duties with his brother Kurt Busch, [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32482/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32377 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32377#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:10:33 +0000 Rick Minter http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32377
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dale Earnhardt Jr. is probably still a little young to be considering what will eventually be his legacy in NASCAR. But a big part of it undoubtedly will involve his role as a car owner who was passionate about giving young drivers a chance at stardom. Earnhardt’s latest pick to drive his [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32377/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32367 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32367#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:22:59 +0000 Info Manager http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32367
RacinToday.com Joe Gibbs Racing announced today that Matt Lucas has been named crew chief for the No. 18 Nationwide Series Toyota team. Lucas, who has spent the past two seasons as the race engineer for the No. 18 team, replaces Jason Ratcliff, who was named crew chief for JGR’s No. 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team last [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32367/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32323 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32323#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:25:54 +0000 Jim Pedley http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32323
RacinToday.com Phoenix Racing announced Monday that in addition to running the complete NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule with Kurt Busch, they will field the No. 1 Chevrolet in a limited amount of NASCAR Nationwide Series races. The first of those races will be in February at Daytona. The team plans on running all major events and are looking [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32323/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32289 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32289#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:05:25 +0000 Jim Pedley http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32289
RacinToday.com Joe Gibbs Racing announced today that Mark Martin will drive the Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry in the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Las Vegas in March. “We’ve always hoped to have the opportunity for Mark to drive for us and to have him behind the wheel of our Interstate Batteries Toyota for the Nationwide race [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32289/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32285 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32285#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:36:43 +0000 Info Manager http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32285
The  economy of racing apparently has claimed another victim as former NASCAR champion Rusty Wallace has decided to temporarily shut down his two-car Nationwide Series team. A press released stated that, “While the organization’s day-to-day competition activities will temporarily cease, key elements of RWR’s business staff will remain in place to continue development of future opportunities. “The [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32285/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32263 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32263#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:41:52 +0000 Info Manager http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32263
JR Motorsports announced Wednesday that Cole Whitt has been tabbed to drive the company’s Nationwide Series No. 88 Chevrolet in 2012. Whitt, a 20-year-old native of Alpine, Calif., will also compete for Sunoco Rookie-of-the-Year honors. He comes to JR Motorsports from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, where he finished ninth in last year’s championship standings [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32263/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32215 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32215#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:02:56 +0000 Info Manager http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32215
RacinToday.com Turner Motorsports, along with Great Clips, Inc., announced Monday that Kasey Kahne will increase his time behind the wheel of the No. 38 Great Clips Chevrolet in 2012 to compete in 15 NASCAR Nationwide Series events. Brad Sweet, who has competed on a limited basis in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for the last two [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32215/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32210 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32210#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:12:37 +0000 Jim Pedley http://www.racintoday.com/?p=32210
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor RacinToday.com It wasn’t so much that Tony Stewart won the 2011 Sprint Cup championship which made his season so remarkable. It was how he did it – with a walk-off victory over second-place Carl Edwards in the final race of the year. Dramatic much? For both what and how he won his third [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/32210/feed 1 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31968 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31968#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:28:48 +0000 Jim Pedley http://50.57.152.227/?p=31968
RacinToday.com Brendan Gaughan will drive the No. 33 Chevrolet of Richard Childress Racing in 10 races on the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule. Gaughan will also drive in eight races on the 2012 Camping World Truck Series schedule, driving RCR’s No. 2 Chevrolet Silverado. Gaughan, 36, is the 2002 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31968/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31666 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31666#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:21:02 +0000 Jim Pedley http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31666
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor RacinToday.com Ricky Stenhouse finished second in  the Ford 300 season-ending NASCAR Nationwide race Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway and that was plenty good enough to secure him the 2011 series championship. Had the race gone another lap, he might have capped off his championship-securing run with a race victory. Instead, Brad Keselowski held Stenhouse [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31666/feed 1 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31552 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31552#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:00:20 +0000 Jim Pedley http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31552
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor RacinToday.com Ricky Stenhouse Jr. makes me wonder – wonder about things like potential, late bloomers, the economics of racing, luck and rapidly closing windows of opportunity. Stenhouse heads to NASCAR’s season-ending weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway this week needing, basically, just to roll out of bed on Saturday morning to collect the Nationwide [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31552/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31435 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31435#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:02:28 +0000 Info Manager http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31435
RacinToday.com Sam Hornish Jr., a three-time IndyCar Series champion, won his first NASCAR race on Saturday. The victory for Hornish, who has also won the Indianapolis 500, came in the Nationwide Series race at Phoenix International Raceway. “I won so much over there (Indy car racing) that I didn’t know how much to appreciate it at the time,” [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31435/feed 0 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31387 http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31387#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:43:25 +0000 John Sturbin http://www.racintoday.com/?p=31387
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com FORT WORTH, Texas – Austin Dillon will graduate into NASCAR’s Nationwide Series in 2012 as the future of Richard Childress Racing, albeit with a bow to the organization’s legendary past. Dillon and Richard Childress Racing will campaign the “stylized” No. 3 – the number forever synonymous with seven-time NASCAR champion Dale [...]]]> http://www.racintoday.com/archives/31387/feed 0