Starting his 150th-career NASCAR Nationwide Series event from the 34th position, Eric McClure hoped to have a career-high finish at the 1.5-mile D-shaped oval. However, after an untimely caution following a green flag pit stop, the team was only able to bring the No. 14 Hefty® BlackOut™/Reynolds™ Chevrolet home inContinue Reading
Perseverance, patience and the right pit strategy lifted Regan Smith from being two laps down to an eighth-place finish in Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The result was Smith’s third top-10 result after the 12th race of the season, and the second top-10 in the last three Sprint CupContinue Reading
Sam Hornish Jr., driver of the No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger, finished 12th Saturday afternoon in the Top Gear 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This event marked the fifth NNS race of the 2011 season for Hornish and his third start in theContinue Reading
Kevin Harvick took his No. 29 Budweiser/Armed Forces Chevrolet to victory lane in a wild finish of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was the third win of the season for the Richard Childress Racing driver and propelled him to second in the standings, just 36 markers outContinue Reading
Roush Fenway Racing came into Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 looking for its third consecutive NASCAR weekend sweep and despite dominating the event, fell just short of the accomplishment. In a wild ending, David Ragan posted a career-high second-place finish, needing just one spot to bring home Roush Fenway’s fifth 600Continue Reading
Just when it appeared that Ryan Newman was going to make one of his patented late-race charges, the U.S. Army driver found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time as he was a victim of a three-car accident. The incident resulted in Newman finishing a disappointing 31st in Sunday night’sContinue Reading
AdvoCare International, LP, an award-winning, premier health and wellness company headquartered in Plano, TX., will be the title sponsor for Atlanta Motor Speedway’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series night race on Sept. 4, 2011. The multi-year contract between AdvoCare and the Speedway calls for AdvoCare to sponsor the track’s Labor DayContinue Reading
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was within a half-mile of breaking a 104-race drought. But Kevin Harvick came up a winner when Earnhardt’s gas tank ran dry on the final lap of a green-white-checkered-flag finish in Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Harvick powered past Earnhardt off Turn 4 andContinue Reading
Red Bull development driver Cole Whitt finished 15th in Pastrana-Waltrip Racing’s No. 99 Red Bull Toyota on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway to match his best showing in three Nationwide starts. A regular in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series — he’s the points leader, in fact, the first rookieContinue Reading