CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The bright lights never find some auto racers. The media scrums that search out the pretty boys – the drivers with the big names and high paying endorsement deals – run away from, not to this group. Despite critically important contributions to their sport, some racers in this bunch remain invisible to [...]
Read the full story »
RacinToday.com
The following is the complete, unedited transcript from the post-race press conference with 2012 champion Brad Keselowski, team owner Roger Penske and crew chief Paul Wolfe:
ROGER PENSKE: First I want to thank the media and obviously all the fans that turn out for these races for 38, 39 weekends around the country and all [...]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
RacinToday.com
Those who thought that Brad Keselowski would crack in the season-ending Sprint Cup race and somehow blow the 20-point lead he possessed when the race at Homestead-Miami Speedway started on Sunday, whiffed.
Instead, it was five-time champion Jimmie Johnson and his Hendrick Motorsports team that succumbed to the pressures as late-race [...]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
RacinToday.com
Jimmie Johnson insisted Thursday that he just has this feeling that somehow, some way, he will win his sixth Sprint Cup championship on Sunday. Can’t explain it, he said.
Over in a publishing plant in Olathe, Kan., NASCAR guys this week were saying the same thing: Johnson picks up where he [...]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
Only Mark Martin’s departure from Roush Fenway Racing in 2006 has stirred more memories and emotions than the impending conclusion of Matt Kenseth’s tenure from the House that Jack Built.
Sunday’s 2012 season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway will be Kenseth’s career 472nd and last NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start [...]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
Formula One superstar Sebastian Vettel, whose meteoric career was launched in the United States five years ago, is poised to move closer to an historic third consecutive World Driving Championship at America’s latest/greatest motorsports venue.
Vettel will start Sunday’s inaugural United States Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, [...]
RacinToday.com
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won his second straight NASCAR Nationwide Series championship by finishing sixth in the season-ending race Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Regan Smith drove the No. 5 JR Motorsports Chevrolet to victory, beating polesitter Kyle Busch to the finish line by 1.375 seconds.
Brendan Gaughan finished third in the race, followed by Sam Hornish Jr. and [...]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
NASCAR’s “cool factor,” its Gen 6 race car and the quality of racing were among myriad topics discussed by chairman/CEO Brian Z. France and Steve O’Donnell, the sanctioning body’s vice president of racing operations, during a press conference Saturday morning at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Here is the complete transcript of what has [...]
RacinToday.com
James Buescher won the 2012 Camping World Truck Series championship Friday night with a 13th-place finish in the season-ending race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The championship was his first in the series and gave team owner Steve Turner of Turner Motorsports his first title.
Rookie Ty Dillon of Richard Childress was involved in a wreck with Kyle Larson with [...]
Joey Logano may have knocked Brad Keselowski off the front row in Friday’s time trails at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but points leader Keselowski will still start ahead of Jimmie Johnson.
The last of 47 drivers to make a qualifying attempt, Logano circled the South Florida track in 30.672 seconds (176.056 mph) to claim the pole for Sunday’s [...]
By Jeff Hood | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – There was plenty of drama in a packed media center at Homestead-Miami Speedway Friday afternoon as Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports team owner Rick Hendrick discussed the four-time Sprint Cup champion’s retaliation against Clint Bowyer at the conclusion of last week’s race in Phoenix.
Gordon, who said he [...]
YouTube Channels
Upcoming Events
- May 25, 2013
- May 26, 2013
- June 1, 2013
- NNS Race DoverNNS Race DoverTime: 2:30 pm
2:30 p.m. (ET) ESPN Dover International Speedway Dover, DE at 2:30 pm - IndyCar Dual Race 2 DetroitIndyCar Dual Race 2 DetroitTime: 3:30 pm
3:30 p.m. (ET) ABC Detroit, MI at 3:30 pm - IndyCar Dual Race 1 DetroitIndyCar Dual Race 1 DetroitTime: 3:30 pm
3:30 p.m. (ET) ABC Detroit, MI at 3:30 pm
- NNS Race Dover
- June 2, 2013
- June 7, 2013
- June 8, 2013
- June 9, 2013
- June 15, 2013
- June 22, 2013
- June 23, 2013
- June 27, 2013
- June 28, 2013
- June 29, 2013