In a quest to make it into the 2011 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship, Virginia’s own Denny Hamlin drove his way to the checkered flag Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. Sunday’s win is Hamlin’s first of the season, after winning eight times in 2010 and contending forContinue Reading
Mike Wallace and his No. 01 Cowboys & Aliens Chevrolet of JD Motorsports took an interesting path to the checkered flag at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday. After posting the 25th and 28th positions, respectively, in the two practice sessions on Friday, Wallace backed that up by qualifying 27th forContinue Reading
Had it not been for the long, flat stretch of pavement that connects the two ends of the frontstretch, who knows what the Red Bull Toyotas could’ve accomplished Sunday? But that stretch of pavement, commonly called pit road, essentially ended any chance of the Red Bull Toyotas contending for aContinue Reading
RCR Post Race Report — Michigan NASCAR Sprint Cup Series RACE: Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 TRACK: Michigan International Speedway DATE: June 19, 2011 Race Highlights: RCR teammates finished fourth (Paul Menard), eighth (Clint Bowyer), 14th, (Kevin Harvick) and 24th (Jeff Burton). RCR teammates are second (Harvick), 10th (Bowyer), 16th (Menard) and 25thContinue Reading
Trevor Bayne, back in the driver’s seat of the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion for his first race in more than two months, scored a solid 16th-place finish in the Heluva Good 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Bayne and his Donnie Wingo-led Wood Brothers crew spent the early portionsContinue Reading
The beginning was frustrating, but the ending was heartbreaking. In between the start and the finish it appeared it was going to be another good day for Regan Smith and the Furniture Row Racing team. After suffering right-front damage to his No. 78 Chevrolet on Lap 10 of 200 as aContinue Reading
The numbers were all good for Ryan Newman following Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway (MIS). Driving the No. 39 U.S. Army 236th Birthday Chevrolet honoring NASCAR Hall of Famer Bud Moore, Newman brought home a sixth-place finish at the two-mile oval. It was his second straightContinue Reading
Paul Menard, No. 27 Pittsburgh Paints/Menards Chevrolet, scored his best finish of the 2011 season after starting ninth and coming home fourth in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series event at Michigan International Speedway (MIS). Four other Team Chevy drivers came home in the top-10 in a race that saw severalContinue Reading
Roush Fenway towered above the field for the bulk of Sunday’s 400-mile Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway, leading 115 of 200 laps and making a strong run at victory. In the end, the team would battle through a myriad of circumstances, with Matt Kenseth’s wild last-corner desperation passContinue Reading
Sam Hornish Jr, driver of the No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger, finished 24th Saturday afternoon in the Alliance Truck Parts 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Michigan International Speedway. This event marked the sixth NNS race of the 2011 season for Hornish and his third start inContinue Reading