NASCAR kicked off its 12-driver, 10-market Chase Media Week with the first-ever, nationally-scaled media availability to open the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. During Chase Media Week, each of the 10 Chase tracks will welcome one of the 12 drivers who will compete for the 2011 NASCAR Sprint CupContinue Reading
Speedway Children’s Charities (SCC) National Executive Director Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Tom Sadler will be given the Distinguished Veteran Airman Award from the Armed Services Council during the organization’s annual Air Force Birthday luncheon Wednesday, Sept. 14, at The Union League of Philadelphia. Gen. Sadler’s name was submittedContinue Reading
NASCAR today announced the expansion of its successful NASCAR Kinetics program from 12 to 20 schools, further increasing the breadth of the program to 17 states and dozens of additional students for the fall 2011 semester. This innovative case study competition gives college students the opportunity to work through real-worldContinue Reading
Scott Wimme will make his inaugural start with the MacDonald Motorsports racing team in Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race, the Dollar General 300 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., and will be seeking his first career top-10 finish at the 1.5-mile track. Wimmer has competed in 19 of 27 racesContinue Reading
Talladega Superspeedway announced today a multi-year partnership with Good Sam Club for sponsorship of the track’s fall NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. This year’s event, the Good Sam Club 500, is scheduled for October 23. “Talladega Superspeedway has long been known for our thousands of acres of free and reservedContinue Reading
J.J. Yeley will get the call to drive the No. 38 Long John Silver’s Ford once again, this time at the 1.5-mile tri-oval of Chicagoland Speedway. The Geico 400 race weekend will be Yeley’s third time piloting the No. 38 Ford Fusion since joining Front Row Motorsports in July. HeContinue Reading
David Gilliland is ready to show off his style this weekend – driving style, that is. The unique mile-and-a-half tri-oval of Chicagoland Speedway is the perfect stage for Gilliland to showcase the progress the No. 34 team has made in its mile-and-a-half program. The high-banked turns of Chicagoland Speedway caterContinue Reading
Being a Chicago Bulls fan, Kyle Busch is very familiar with the term three-peat. Busch’s beloved Bulls made the term prevalent in the 90’s after they won three consecutive NBA Championships from 1990 to 1993 and then repeated the feat from 1995 to 1997. Busch will be looking to makeContinue Reading
MARCOS AMBROSE No. 9 Stanley Ford Fusion · Marcos Ambrose started the race at Richmond International Raceway from the 33rd spot · Ambrose finished the 400-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in the 21st position · Unofficially, Ambrose sits in 20th position in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standingsContinue Reading
In the final race before the 12-driver, 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship begins, U.S. Army driver Ryan Newman pulled off another solid performance, finishing eighth in Saturday night’s Wonderful Pistachios 400 at Richmond International Raceway. Driving the 9/11 U.S. Army Chevrolet, which carried the names of the 75Continue Reading