After a banner 2010 that included a sweep of America’s biggest auto racing events, NASCAR race team owner Chip Ganassi and his organization are among the nominees at next week’s Fourth Annual Sports Business Awards. Ganassi is the first race team executive to be nominated for Sports Executive of theContinue Reading
NASCAR today announced the return of the NASCAR Wendell Scott Scholarship Program and the University of Central Florida, DeVos School of Management Scholarship. For a second consecutive year, the NASCAR Wendell Scott Scholarship Program is funded in part by long-time NASCAR partner UPS. The program was established to provide financialContinue Reading
The last thing any racecar driver wants to be called is “dirty,” but they’ll make an exception to this rule on Wednesday, June 8 when the most celebrated dirt track in all of motorsports hosts the Prelude to the Dream. Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, will once again be theContinue Reading
If Webster’s dictionary had illustrations, Bobby Allison’s picture would accompany the entry “hard-core racer.” Allison, whose NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career spanned nearly three decades beginning in 1961, could hold his own with any of his peers – a stellar group that included NASCAR Hall of Fame member Richard PettyContinue Reading
For the fifth consecutive year, Dover International Speedway has joined forces with Autism Speaks to create awareness for the special cause through the entitlement of the Monster Mile’s spring NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, titled the “FedEx 400 benefiting Autism Speaks.” The NASCAR community has embraced the messaging of AutismContinue Reading
Today, JTG Daugherty Racing received news that members of the National Motorsports Press Association selected the team as the first quarter winner of the NMPA Speedway Motorsports Spirit Award. The team was recognized for its efforts with six-year-old Jordan Jemsek, who was racing for her life. Little Jordan was inContinue Reading
Roush Fenway Racing will hold Trevor Bayne out of this week’s Nationwide Series race at Dover International Speedway. Fellow Tennessee native Kevin Swindell will fill in for Bayne in the No. 16 Roush Fenway Mustang this weekend in the Nationwide Series race. “Trevor’s symptoms have subsided and we are veryContinue Reading
Fans in attendance at the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 will have a chance to witness history as 2007 Formula One World Champion Kimi Raikkonen will make his NASCAR debut, May 20, at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race will mark the first time in theContinue Reading
Lane Construction, of Chesire, Conn., might be considered your average construction company to an outsider. But they are far from ‘average,’ as the organization’s specialty is paving race tracks, especially big ones like Daytona International Speedway, one of the most talked about large-scale motorsports re-paving projects in recent memory. ButContinue Reading
On Wednesday, Lafferty Motorsports was pleased to announce it would be adding Whisky River as an associate sponsor for Chris Lafferty’s No.89 entry in the N.C. Education Lottery 200. Whisky River will join primary sponsor NASCAR SpeedPark® and associate sponsor Blue Ox for the Camping World Truck Series race atContinue Reading