Racing News (Page 2,125)

Sports car racers from around the world gather this weekend at Daytona International Speedway for the 51st annual Rolex 24. The 24-hour endurance race takes the green flag Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on SPEED-TV. Making its second start on  the 3.56-mile road course is the AF Waltrip Racing team featuringContinue Reading

hree 50-lap heat races, including transfers to Race 3 for the top-two finishers in the first two qualifying races, will determine the starting grid for the seventh Iowa Corn Indy 250 on Sunday, June 23, at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. The format for heat race qualifications on Saturday, JuneContinue Reading

Richard Childress Racing has added two members to its communications staff.   Andrea Cleveland has been named manager of communications in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for the No. 27 Menards Chevrolet team and driver Paul Menard. Jeff O’Keefe has assumed a similar position with RCR’s NASCAR Nationwide Series programContinue Reading

INDYCAR and its television partners today announced IZOD IndyCar Series television windows for consistent blocks of network coverage and new race distances at selected events. Live coverage of all 19 IZOD IndyCar Series events – including ABC’s first prime-time race and three doubleheaders (one on ABC and two on NBCContinue Reading

NASCAR and ExxonMobil today announced a multi-year partnership extension, making Mobil 1™ synthetic motor oil the ‘Official Motor Oil of NASCAR’ through 2017. The 2013 NASCAR season will mark the 11th consecutive season in which the Mobil 1 brand is an official partner of NASCAR, the premier motorsports series inContinue Reading

The North Carolina Motorsports Association will honor legendary racing promoter H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler with its Achievement in Motorsports Tribute Award at the seventh annual North Carolina Motorsports Industry Awards Ceremony presented by Fifth Third Bank. The ceremony will take place Jan. 28 at the Embassy Suites Concord. The NCMA MotorsportsContinue Reading

Florida is the birthplace of NASCAR and Friday afternoon, two marquee tracks in the state joined the NASCAR family. NASCAR and track officials announced New Smyrna Speedway and Orlando Speedworld will be sanctioned tracks in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series in 2013. New Smyrna is a half-mile banked paved ovalContinue Reading

The highly anticipated opening of the state-of-the-art Kern County Raceway Park in Bakersfield will become a reality when NASCAR Whelen All-American Series-sanctioned races hit the track in 2013. The grand opening race has been scheduled for Saturday night April 20. The half-mile and quarter-mile paved tracks at the Kern CountyContinue Reading

Dylan Kwasniewski, the 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West (NKNPSW) Champion, will compete for a championship in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East (NKNPSE) with Turner Scott Motorsports (TSM) in 2013. TSM, which currently houses NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) teams, will expand theirContinue Reading