Nashville is Music to Michael Annett’s Ears: The 24-year old racer has six previous starts on Nashville Superspeedway’s 1.333 mile D-shaped oval including four NASCAR Nationwide Series races, one NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event and one ARCA Racing Series event. In his two most recent attempts at the Lebanon,Continue Reading
Martinsville Speedway founder H. Clay Earles, who carved a monument to stock car racing out of the Southern Virginia countryside, was one of 25 nominees to the NASCAR Hall of Fame announced Tuesday. Earles played an integral role in the early years of NASCAR’s development. He built and opened MartinsvilleContinue Reading
NASCAR announced today the list of 25 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s third induction class to be enshrined in January 2012. From that list, five inductees will be elected by the NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel, which includes a nationwide fan vote on NASCAR.COM. Of the 25Continue Reading
Today, Go Canada Racing, the newest all-Canadian NASCAR contender, officially starts its quest for NASCAR glory. Go Canada Racing is the only current NASCAR national series team with a Canadian owner, businessman Steve Meehan, and a Canadian driver, rising Canadian NASCAR star J.R. Fitzpatrick. “Go Canada Racing brings together myContinue Reading
Richard Childress Racing and Caterpillar have reached agreement to continue their partnership on the No. 31 Chevrolet which began with the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Jeff Burton, driver of the No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet, has also reached agreement on a multi-year contract extension with RCR. The South Boston,Continue Reading
NASCAR Rev’d Up, a free concert and festival put on annually by NASCAR to kick off NASCAR Sprint All-Star Weekwill feature performances by multi-platinum country artist Gary Allan and singer-songwriter Josh Kelley on May 18 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. “NASCAR Rev’d Up is a greatContinue Reading
For the second time in the 2011 race season, Gander Mountain is excited to announce that the outdoor retailer will be the primary sponsor of Front Row Motorsports’ (FRM) Sprint Cup entry. The Gander Mountain No. 34 Ford Fusion will appear at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday, April 30, pilotedContinue Reading
P1 Groupe driver Scott Wimmer, driver of the #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Malibu, left the Talladega Superspeedway with a solid Top-15 finish yesterday. The race included drama, hard wrecks, and two green-white-checkered attempts, and while some cars couldn’t make it to the finish, Wimmer and his team continued to workContinue Reading
Drive to End Hunger and Talladega Superspeedway today announced that, on behalf of DTEH, Americrown, Talladega’s food and beverage concessions operator, has donated its extra food items from the Aaron’s Dream Weekend to the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama. Drive to End Hunger is AARP and AARP Foundation’s nationalContinue Reading
Due to a lack of sponsorship, the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and driver Joey Logano were not originally scheduled to run this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. However, a number of factors following this past Saturday’s event at Talladega Superspeedway changed that. First, with Logano’s second-place finish at Talladega,Continue Reading