Ed Carpenter, the lone team owner/driver in the IZOD IndyCar Series recorded a blistering four-lap average speed of 228.762 mph (best lap of 229.347 mph; 39.2418 seconds) in the No. 20 Fuzzy’s Ultra Premium Vodka car to win the pole for the 2013 Indianapolis 500.
The one-car team bested the best of Team Penske and Andretti [...]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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Kansas City, Kan. – Randy Moss may not have a Super Bowl ring, but he now has a NASCAR race-victory trophy.
That trophy was earned Monday when Mike Skinner drove a Moss-owned truck to Victory Lane in the rain-disrupted O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway.
“Randy,” [...]
By Rick Minter | Senior Writer
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Talladega, Ala. – NASCAR’s rules for racing at Talladega Superspeedway are intended to produce safer racing. Drivers run restrictor plates to slow speeds and they’re prohibited from going below the yellow line at the bottom of the race track, among other things. But on Sunday at the end of the [...]
By Rick Minter | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
Increasingly in NASCAR these days, interviews with top drivers occur in scrums held behind the team hauler in the garage. The driver stands on the steps. Reporters push and shove their way to the front, trying to get in a question or two. Others stand around the periphery, straining to [...]
By Rick Minter | Senior Writer
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Talladega, Ala. – David Ragan’s first major NASCAR victory, a last-lap thriller in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Talladega, was a long time coming. It followed 185 winless starts in the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series.
It actually was a lot longer than that.
The Ragan family from Unadilla, [...]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
RacinToday.com
Yes, Scott Dixon said, finishes of 16th and 15th in the first two races of the 2009 IndyCar Series season were taking a bit of an emotional toll on him and his team. He said he was noticing long faces and people on the team “were not as nice to [...]
Watching the Road Runner Turbo 300 at Kansas Speedway?
Nick Bromberg is.
Join him today as he chats “Flag to Flag” about the race.
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Correspondent
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Talledega, Ala. – Forty years ago NASCAR’s regular drivers went on strike at the Talladega Superspeedway and towed their cars out of the massive Alabama track the day before the race. In qualifying for the Aaron’s 499 on Saturday, 10 drivers were trying to fight their way into the field [...]