Just a week after competing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway, Justin Marks and the No. 66 GoPro team made the long trek out West for round two of competition at Phoenix International Raceway on Friday night. Marks made the most out ofContinue Reading
Kenny Wallace and RAB Racing earned their first top-10 finish of the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) season over the weekend in the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 at Phoenix International Raceway. Wallace, who drove the No. 09 Family Farmers Toyota Camry to a tenth place finish in Saturday’s event, tied hisContinue Reading
Jeff Gordon, winner of the SUBWAY Fresh Fit 500™ at Phoenix International Raceway on Feb. 27, helped get construction started for PIR’s upcoming track pavement project after celebrating his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win in 66 races. The attached photo of Gordon after making the first cuts into PhoenixContinue Reading
Jimmie Johnson, a four-time winner of the Kobalt Tools 400 event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and a five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, is favored to repeat the feat in Sunday’s main event. Although winless in the first two races of the 2011 campaign, Ed Salmons, Race and SportsContinue Reading
While fans at Phoenix International Raceway said goodbye to the track’s old racing surface and configuration, Jeff Gordon bid adieu to a winless streak of 66 races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Gordon pulled away from Kyle Busch during the closing laps for victory in the SUBWAY Fresh FitContinue Reading
Phoenix International Raceway is one of Justin Lofton’s favorite race tracks. He entered the event weekend with high hopes at the one-mile facility, but an issue with his No. 77 Lofton Cattle Toyota Tundra early into the Lucas Oil 150 on Friday night left him with a 30th place finish.Continue Reading
Regan Smith’s strong performance of 2011 was continuing in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway. But on Lap 67 of 312, Smith’s No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet was in the wrong place at the wrong time as it suffered major damage after being involved in a 14-car wreck on theContinue Reading
Sixth place goes down in the record books as just that: sixth. It’s not a shiny number. It’s a solid number. And for a team that’s been blanked by a 1-mile slick and slippery race track for the past four years, sixth is quite an accomplishment. “To come out ofContinue Reading
Trevor Bayne’s been saying all along that there would be highs and lows in his first year driving the Wood Brothers No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion. But he wasn’t counting on them coming so close together. Just a week after his thrilling victory in the Daytona 500 and weeklongContinue Reading
Panhandle Motorsports’ No. 20 Panhandle Grading Toyota Tundra team, headed up by the youngest driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – Johanna Long – earned their first top 20 finish at their inaugural visit to Phoenix International Raceway. Long lined up the No. 20 Panhandle Grading Toyota TundraContinue Reading