Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. left Lucas Oil Raceway with the Nationwide Series points lead in hand Saturday night. Stenhouse did all but win the race as well; starting from the pole and leading a staggering 189 of 200 laps. However, after a series of late cautions caught theContinue Reading
Carl Edwards was hoping to add his name to the record books at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, but several circumstances prevented that from happening. Edwards fought a tight Ortho Ford Fusion most of the race, and damage to the front splitter late in the race sent him back toContinue Reading
Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) officials today announced several changes to the NASCAR Sprint Cup team’s executive lineup. Brian Moffitt, who previously headed up the RPM sales and marketing department, has been named chief executive officer for the multi-car team and Mike Hargrave has taken over the EVP, sales and marketingContinue Reading
In an up-and-down race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a tenacious Tony Stewart made sure he finished Sunday’s Brickyard 400 on the upswing. The driver of the No. 14 Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) rallied from as low as 32nd to finish sixth, securing his eighth top-10Continue Reading
Ryan Newman overcame nearly 100-degree temperatures and tough track conditions on Sunday to score a respectable 12th-place finish in the 18th running of the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The driver of the No. 39 Haas Automation Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) spentContinue Reading
Jeff Gordon earned his second runner-up finish of the 2011 season during Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All four Hendrick Motorsports drivers ran up front during the 160-lap event, but in the end it came down to Gordon and Mark Martin, who were running inContinue Reading
Kyle Busch rallied from a myriad of issues and saved just enough fuel to score a solid 10th-place finish in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The result was Busch’s 12th top-10 finish of the season and his fifth top-10 in seven career SprintContinue Reading
With his win in Sunday’s Brickyard 400, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Paul Menard is qualified to be a finalist for a chance to earn a $3 million payout in the Sprint Summer Showdown presented by HTC EVO™ 3D. If Menard can also win the Advocare 500 at Atlanta MotorContinue Reading
If there was freshly sheared grass blowing across Indianapolis Motor Speedway during Sunday’s Brickyard 400, Trevor Bayne, along with many others had an unfortunate way of finding it. Three times during the running of the race, the first coming after just six laps, Bayne had to make an unscheduled pitContinue Reading
After finishing third in Sunday’s Brickyard 400, it is becoming apparent that Regan Smith and Furniture Row Racing like to perform on the big stage. Prior to the 2011 season neither Smith nor the Denver, Colo.-based Furniture Row team had a top-10 result. But that has changed this season in a big way.Continue Reading