The inaugural Super Weekend at the Brickyard is more than eight months away, but the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series already has placed the race among its elite events by including it as the exciting finale of its new North American Endurance Championship for 2012. GRAND-AM officials announced Nov. 9Continue Reading
Team Penske IZOD IndyCar Series driver Will Power has been cleared to test the 2012 Chevrolet IndyCar next week as he continues to recover from injuries suffered in final race of the 2011 season. Power was diagnosed with two small compression fractures of his thoracic vertebrae following the multi-car accidentContinue Reading
It wasn’t a matter of if, but when. Finally, all the ingredients came together for Stuart, Florida native Bryan Silas as he stormed to his first career CARS Pro Cup Series (formally known as the USARacing Pro Cup Series) victory Saturday afternoon at Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway. In racing, it’s oftenContinue Reading
Longtime Indianapolis Motor Speedway media center official Bill York was announced as the winner of the 2011 Jim Chapman Award for excellence in motorsports public relations. The Chapman Award is considered by many in the industry as the highest honor in racing public relations. It is named in memory ofContinue Reading
Josh Richards put his heart and soul into pursuing an unprecedented third consecutive World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship, but in the end the racing luck necessary to complete the job just wasn’t on his side. In a heartbreaking conclusion to his otherwise spectacular 2011 campaign, Richards fell oneContinue Reading
Returning to Perris Auto Speedway as the reigning Budweiser Oval Nationals champion, 20-year-old Chris Windom tightened the points gap between himself and frontrunner Levi Jones on Saturday. Second in the USAC Sprint Car National Championship point standings, Windom left the three-night show with only 33 markers separating him from Jones.Continue Reading
Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DJRT), a “Full Throttle” lifetime experience company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a subsidiary of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (NYSE: TRK), and will establish a western operations hub in Las Vegas, effectively opening upContinue Reading
A week after a raid at his home that deputies say turned up meth, 69 guns and $100,000 in stolen goods, Jeremy Mayfield has been indicted by a grand jury on drug charges. Mayfield, a former NASCAR driver, was indicted by the Catawba County grand jury on Monday for felonyContinue Reading
Daytona International Speedway has partnered with Predator Performance/50+ Racing to create a special ticket package to commemorate the team’s participation in the historic 50th anniversary of the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 28-29. Brian Johnson, vintage racing competitor and lead singer for popular rock band AC/DC, along with ByronContinue Reading
Race Highlights: Richard Childress Racing teammates finished ninth (Clint Bowyer), 13th (Kevin Harvick), 15th (Paul Menard) and 27th (Jeff Burton) in the AAA Texas 500. Bowyer collected his 14th top-10 finish of the 2011 NSCS season. Bowyer made 154 green-flag passes, second-most of any driver in the 43-car field, duringContinue Reading