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Front Row Motorsports kicked off the 2011 season Sunday by securing all three of its cars into the biggest race of the year — next week’s Daytona 500.  After making huge upgrades in equipment and adding key personnel in the off-season, the team came to Daytona International Speedeway much improved overContinue Reading

Dale Earnhardt, Jr., No. 88 AMP Energy/National Guard Chevrolet, won the pole for the 53rd running of the Daytona 500 with a lap of 48.364 seconds/186.089 m.p.h.  It is his first pole in 23 races at Daytona International Speedway and his first-ever for a restrictor plate race. He has startedContinue Reading

Greg Biffle led the way for Roush Fenway in Sunday’s Pole Day at Daytona International Speedway, turning a lap of 48.67 (184.911 mph) to qualify ninth in the session. The session will determine the team’s starting points in Thursday’s Gatorade Duels. “It was pretty good,” said Biffle. “I thought itContinue Reading

After finishing in the runner-up position seven times, Kurt Busch finally captured a win at historic Daytona International Speedway in a thrilling finish in the 33rd annual Budweiser Shootout. The victory marks Busch’s first restrictor-plate win, the first time Dodge has visited Gatorade Victory Lane in the star-studded race andContinue Reading

TRG Motorsports has tapped veteran NASCAR crew chief Jay Guy to sit atop its No. 71 pit box for the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Guy, who begins his new assignment this weekend in Daytona, will call the race for Andy Lally, who was announced last week as theContinue Reading

When the Wood Brothers No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion hits the track for Daytona 500 practice on Saturday, it’ll represent both ends of the Speedweeks experience spectrum. The Woods have been racing at Daytona in February for 61 years, since team founder Glen Wood was driving in races onContinue Reading

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had the lucky draw on Friday night at the Budweiser Shootout Draw Party. Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, drew the lucky Budweiser bottle with the pole position for Saturday’s Budweiser Shootout, the star-studded NASCAR Sprint Cup Series non-points race set forContinue Reading

Daytona International Speedway and Chevrolet officials announced today that the Chevrolet Camaro SS will serve as the official pace car for the 53rd running of the Daytona 500 – the second time in the past three years that the iconic automobile has paced the field for the “The Great AmericanContinue Reading