For Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet, the winning move occurred on the final lap, but preparation and pit strategy helped propel the Richard Childress team to Victory Lane and claim three post-race contingency awards in the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway. The No. 29Continue Reading
Gander Mountain is excited to announce that the outdoor retailer will be the primary sponsor of Front Row Motorsports’ (FRM) #34 Sprint Cup entry at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday, April 9. The car will be piloted by veteran NASCAR driver David Gilliland, currently 26th in driver point standings inContinue Reading
Tony Stewart ran among the top-five for nearly all of Sunday’s 200-lap Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. It was the final nine laps around the 2-mile oval that posed a problem. After the race’s final restart on lap 192 whereContinue Reading
Kyle Busch dominated Sunday’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., leading five times for a race-high 151 laps. But despite the strong effort, the driver of the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) couldn’t hold off theContinue Reading
Only five races into the Kasey Kahne-Brian Vickers tandem, the two drivers combined to earn one of the best finishes in Red Bull Racing Team history.Vickers’ No. 83 Red Bull Toyota finished eighth and Kahne’s No. 4 ninth in Sunday’s 400-miler at Auto Club Speedway — yes, it was 400Continue Reading
Trevor Bayne was looking forward to taking his No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion to the high side of the race track in Sunday’s Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway. But he got a little higher up the track than he’d planned, and that resulted in a frustrating dayContinue Reading
Kyle came into Auto Club Speedway and started off in the hole, in practice before even turning his qualifying laps, lost control of the 18 M&M’s car coming off turn four and plowed through the infield front stretch, tearing up the front end of his car on the first lapContinue Reading
It was a not-so-kind Murphy’s Law day for Regan Smith and the Furniture Row Racing team. It did seem as if everything went wrong for Smith, who brought home a crippled race car to a 27th-place finish in Sunday’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Heading into Sunday’s 400-mileContinue Reading
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s Centennial Celebration and the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma will be the primary sponsors when Austin Dillon makes his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut later this season in the No. 98 Curb-Agajanian Performance Group Chevrolet. The Ronald Reagan Centennial is a historic, year-long celebration toContinue Reading
The torrid early-season pace continues for Ryan Newman, who posted a fifth-place finish in Sunday’s Auto Club 400 Sprint Cup race. It was Newman’s fourth straight top-10 result and his third top-five in the first-five races of the 2011 campaign. The fifth-place finish at Auto Club Speedway lifted Newman from fourthContinue Reading