Ryan Newman fought an ill-handling racecar and rallied from one lap down to score a hard-earned fourth-place finish in the inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta. It was the fifth top-five finish of 2011 for the driver of the No. 39 Tornados Chevrolet Impala forContinue Reading
As the season winds down, the action continues to heat up in the battle for the coveted NASCAR Nationwide Rookie of the year title. Friday night, such was the case as Florida’s Blake Koch drove the Daystar Television Network #81 Dodge to a top 25 finish in the Feed theContinue Reading
Dave Blaney started the Quaker State 400 from the tail of the field due to a transmission change. He drove the No. 36 Big Red Chevrolet to the 28th position before an issue during a pit stop and a flat tire marred the Tommy Baldwin Racing (TBR) team three lapsContinue Reading
They built it. And the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series finally came 10 years later. The fans came, too. Even if some never made it. Red Bull Racing Team’s two trucks were parked inside Kentucky Speedway long before clogged arteries — i.e., traffic problems — trumped the chatter surrounding the CupContinue Reading
Perhaps there’s something to be said for having more than 40 years of experience hosting NASCAR’s premier series. Talladega Superspeedway Chairman Grant Lynch wants to assure race fans that his staff is well prepared to handle the influx of more than 100,000 people when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series arrivesContinue Reading
A steady performance by Regan Smith landed the Furniture Row Racing driver a 17th-place finish in Saturday night’s inaugural Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway. Smith, who started the race from the 12th position, virtually rode in the top-20 throughout the 267-lap, 400-mile event. An untimely caution after making aContinue Reading
Brendan Gaughan has had many great finishes at Kentucky Speedway, including two fourth-place results in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Thursday night, Gaughan ran into some difficulties in front of the 30,000 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series fans in attendance for the UNOH 225, but, with the help of his GermainContinue Reading
Strategizing and conserving fuel earned Rusty Wallace Racing’s No. 62 Pilot Flying J team their third consecutive top-10 finish in the Bluegrass State this weekend. Driver Michael Annett’s seventh place finish in Friday night’s Feed the Children 300 at Kentucky Speedway advanced him to ninth in the Nationwide Series championshipContinue Reading
What was Kyle Busch’s dominant impression of his victory in the inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway? It wasn’t that he’ll be written into the record book as the first Cup winner at the 1.5-mile track, the first speedway introduced into the series in 10 years. No, BuschContinue Reading