Red Bull Racing Team finally turned right Sunday, thinking it’d be a successful stroll around an undulating road course tucked in the hills of northern California wine country. And why not? Both Red Bull Toyotas started in the top 10, and Kasey Kahne had won a Sprint Cup Series raceContinue Reading
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series RACE: Save Mart 350 TRACK: Infineon Raceway DATE: June 26, 2011 Race Highlights: RCR teammates finished fourth (Clint Bowyer), ninth (Kevin Harvick), 17th (Paul Menard) and 21st (Jeff Burton). RCR teammates are second (Harvick), eighth (Bowyer), 17th (Menard) and 24th (Burton) in the Sprint CupContinue Reading
On a day when many of his fellow competitors were anything but patient, Kyle Busch was one cool customer en route to an 11th-place finish in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350k NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. The driver of the No. 18 M&M’s Pretzel ToyotaContinue Reading
In only his fifth career Sprint Cup start on a road course, Regan Smith hustled his way to a 16th-place finish in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway. It was not only Smith’s best-ever road-race finish, but it was also a career-best road-race result for the Denver, Colo.-based Furniture Row Racing team.Continue Reading
Sonoma County is famous for wineries, not woodsheds, but Kurt Busch found the latter Sunday at Infineon Raceway, administering a good old-fashioned whipping to his NASCAR Sprint Cup competition in the Toyota/Save Mart 350. Busch led 76 of 110 laps and beat runner-up Jeff Gordon to the finish line byContinue Reading
The 2011 Daytona 500 Champion Trevor Bayne is set to be this year’s key-note speaker at the 19th annual New Hampshire Motor Speedway Governors Breakfast on Friday, July 15. Driver of the No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, Bayne launched his way into stardom byContinue Reading
I’m not saying my running buddies and I are shallow, but I’ll admit that we aren’t generally given to a great deal of philosophical discourse. As result, when someone does utter a pronouncement of any import, it is worth remembering. Case in point: Over lunch during a recent trip toContinue Reading
Beginning this weekend at Infineon Raceway, NASCAR officials have increased the caution car speeds by five miles per hour at all four NASCAR-sanctioned road courses – Infineon, Watkins Glen International, Road America and Circuit-Gilles Villeneuve. Pit road speeds also have been increased by 5 miles per hour at Watkins GlenContinue Reading