Jimmie Johnson, a four-time winner of the Kobalt Tools 400 event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and a five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, is favored to repeat the feat in Sunday’s main event. Although winless in the first two races of the 2011 campaign, Ed Salmons, Race and SportsContinue Reading
While fans at Phoenix International Raceway said goodbye to the track’s old racing surface and configuration, Jeff Gordon bid adieu to a winless streak of 66 races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Gordon pulled away from Kyle Busch during the closing laps for victory in the SUBWAY Fresh FitContinue Reading
Regan Smith’s strong performance of 2011 was continuing in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway. But on Lap 67 of 312, Smith’s No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet was in the wrong place at the wrong time as it suffered major damage after being involved in a 14-car wreck on theContinue Reading
Sixth place goes down in the record books as just that: sixth. It’s not a shiny number. It’s a solid number. And for a team that’s been blanked by a 1-mile slick and slippery race track for the past four years, sixth is quite an accomplishment. “To come out ofContinue Reading
Trevor Bayne’s been saying all along that there would be highs and lows in his first year driving the Wood Brothers No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion. But he wasn’t counting on them coming so close together. Just a week after his thrilling victory in the Daytona 500 and weeklongContinue Reading
After a disappointing finish in the season-opening Daytona 500, Jeff Gordon and the No. 24 team are already thinking about changes entering this weekends Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR). Gordon started second at Daytona but was collected in a lap-29 multi-car accident at the 2.5-mile track.Continue Reading
Coming off a successful Daytona 500, including a career-best finish, Regan Smith and the Furniture Row Racing team have quickly flip-fopped their focus. “After Daytona I found time to take a few deep breaths, and for a short period only, rehashed what could have been,” said Smith, who finished seventh inContinue Reading
“We almost won the Daytona 500” were words that JTG Daugherty Racing co-owner Tad Geschickter uttered to Bobby Labonte and his team on pit road following the 53rd running of The Great American Race on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway. “We’re big believers in Bobby Labonte,” Geschickter said. “He putContinue Reading
Strong, reliable horsepower gave 20-year-old sensation Trevor Bayne the momentum he needed Sunday to capture his historic Daytona 500 victory, picking up a victory for the fabled Wood Brothers and a MAHLE Clevite Engine Builder of the Race contingency award for Roush Yates Engines in the 53rd running of theContinue Reading
Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 Crown Royal Ford with Roush Fenway Racing, and his wife Katie welcomed a new bundle of joy into their family early Tuesday morning with the birth of the couple’s second daughter. Grace Katherine Kenseth was born February 22 at 3:49 a.m. EST weighingContinue Reading