Alex Zanardi grew accustomed to pain while racing with prosthetic legs. Applying heavy pressure on the brake pedal hundreds, maybe thousands of times during an endurance event meant the Italian’s leg and its contact points in the prosthesis were being battered.Like a boxer whose hands are numb and raw after a prize fight, Zanardi’s sacrifice […]
Mazda came out of the blocks strongly in the opening session at the Roar Before the Rolex 24, leading the 10 DPis to participate in Friday’s first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice. Oliver Jarvis posted a best lap of 1m35.989s in the No. 77 Mazda DPi, while Olivier Pla was third best in the No. 55 […]
Christina Nielsen has replaced Jackie Heinricher in the Acura which Simona De Silvestro will drive in next month’s 24 Hours of Daytona. Heinricher, whose Heinricher Racing outfit has formed an alliance with Meyer Shank Racing for the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, has pulled out of the race due to a back injury suffered in […]
Joey Logano won his first career NASCAR Cup Series championship in the 2018 season. Will he repeat as champion in the 2019 season? Throughout the majority of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series, the “Big Three”, which consisted of Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch and Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr., dominated. These […]
The BMW M Motorsport engineers compare him to a drummer, while Alessandro Zanardi (ITA) himself says: “I feel a bit like Jimi Hendrix.” The manner in which the BMW works driver controls the BMW M8 GTE that he will drive during the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA) in January is comparable to a virtuoso performance. […]
This year looks like being a momentous year for Toyota. Not only did Japan’s No 1 carmaker launch an all-new version of the world’s biggest selling car – the Corolla – but it also just announced a major collaboration with Japan’s second-biggest media and telecommunications company Softbank, a conglomerate that Americans may know as the […]
Kasey Kahne won’t return to the NASCAR Cup Series this season and indicated Tuesday that he might never be able to return to full-bodied stock cars.Kahne, who announced in August that he would not race in NASCAR regularly starting in 2019, has missed the last five races as he has worked with doctors to determine why […]
Hailie Deegan passed teammate Cole Rouse on the final lap to win Saturday night’s race at Meridian Speedway in Meridian, Idaho, becoming the first first female driver to win in the history of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series. In her first season in the series, 17-year-old Deegan had twice been a runner-up in a NASCAR K&N Pro […]
Alon Day, a driver from Tel Aviv, Israel, will add an international flair to Saturday’s race at Richmond Raceway when he makes his 2018 Cup series debut. The 26-year-old Day is the first NASCAR driver from Israel to ever compete in the Cup series, according to a news release on Monday from his sponsor, Best Bully Sticks. Day […]
NASCAR today announced that Steve Phelps has been named NASCAR President, effective October 1, 2018. Brent Dewar has elected to step down and will remain with the company through the end of the 2018 racing season, transitioning to a senior consulting and advisory role in 2019. Phelps will assume the duties held by Dewar and […]
Brad Keselowski has enjoyed a truly spectacular September. It began with a victory in the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Sept. 2. He won back-to-back NASCAR majors with a triumph in the rain-delayed Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sept. 10. On Sunday at Las Vegas, he added a page to Team Penkse’s rich history by […]
A snoozer of a NASCAR season got a huge jolt of energy right before the playoffs with back-to-back wins by Brad Keselowski. Keselowski wasn’t a championship contender before the two crown jewel victories — at the Southern 500 and the Brickyard 400 — pushed him into the title conversation. His door-slamming race with Denny Hamlin in the […]
Brehanna Daniels was munching on a Chick-fil-A sandwich when Norfolk State athletics department member Tiffani-Dawn Sykes suggested a career path that would change her life. It was the spring of 2016, just weeks from graduation, and Daniels — a Spartans senior point guard — was in a quandary about what to do after college: train […]
A skirmish has broken out between the old-time stock-car fans who think NASCAR is headed to Boot Hill — or already has one foot in the grave — and the younger stock-car fans who think the grumblers are too pessimistic when everyone should be … gosh-darn positive! Credit: Getty Images As with most debates, both sides have […]
One day after the 10,000,000th Mustang rolled off the Ford Assembly line, Ford took the camouflage off its newest version of the Mustang — the one it plans to use in the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Tony Stewart, a three-time Cup Series champion and current team owner in the series, did the honors by driving the […]
Nascar was already facing headwinds when Brian Z. France, its chief executive and chairman, was pulled over in Sag Harbor, N.Y., Sunday night.France was arrested on charges of drunken driving and drug possession, adding leadership instability to the variety of challenges facing stock car racing, including attendance woes, declining television ratings and opaque finances that potential […]
Brian France had just helped his family present a humanitarian award in honour of his late mother at a glitzy Las Vegas affair when his night went awry. The NASCAR chairman followed his wife toward the stairs at the front of the stage so the couple could rejoin their table in the audience at last […]
Nascar president Brian France has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the North American stock car-racing series amid reports he was arrested on Sunday for driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of a controlled substance. In a statement yesterday (Monday) evening, Nascar confirmed that Jim France, Brian’s uncle, will serve as interim chairman and […]
Road America’s winning GT Daytona combination of Porsche factory driver Patrick Long and two-time IMSA GT Daytona champion Christina Nielsen pointed to chemistry as the underlying key to victory. Coming off a frustrating race at Lime Rock where Long’s pole position went south in the latter stages of the race when mechanical issues intervened, the […]
Joey Logano reaffirmed his mastery of the road course at Watkins Glen International, but it took a three-wide restart late in Saturday’s Zippo 200 for the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford to get the job done. After winning his fourth straight NASCAR Xfinity Series pole at the 2.45-mile track, Logano took teammate […]
Is there anything that Katherine Legge can’t drive? In the latest addition to an incredibly diverse career, Legge will make her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut this month at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, driving the No. 15 JD Motorsports with Gary Keller Chevrolet Camaro. Primary support for Legge’s NASCAR effort, which will also include the Xfinity race […]
The Big 3 of Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. have dominated the season. And every week, one major topic of conversation is who can beat them. Parker Kligerman believes Brad Keselowski has the greatest opportunity to add his name to the winner’s list at Watkins Glen International this weekend. “For everything he does wrong at Sonoma and can’t seem […]
The sky is not falling on NASCAR, its top executives insist, and a cheerier disposition could go a long way in lifting the black clouds surrounding the series. That is a paraphrase of the message NASCAR chief operating officer Steve Phelps delivered at Pocono Raceway during a weekend sponsorship celebration. Phelps was presenting good news […]
A post-qualifying inspection failure? No problem. A starting position deep in the field for Sunday’s Gander Outdoors 400 at Pocono Raceway? Just another challenge for Kyle Busch to overcome. Holding off a determined charge from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Daniel Suarez in two late restarts — the first after a brutal wreck that sidelined Bubba Wallace — […]
Because NASCAR’s “Big Three” of Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. have combined to win 75% of Cup races this year — 15 of 20 — their dominance could be regarded as another unfortunate trend for the series, especially among non-winning drivers, sponsors and fans. Well, the parity police need to lighten up a little […]
On two straight laps late in Sunday’s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Kevin Harvick nudged the No. 18 Toyota of race leader Kyle Busch with his front bumper. Busch retained the lead. But Harvick took more aggressive action on lap 295 of 301, tagging Busch’s car in the center of turns […]
Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. — just call them “The Big Three” — have won 14 of 19 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup races this year. All three have won Cups and are at least 33 years old, which sidetracks NASCAR’s “Young Guns” marketing push. Well, good for “The Big Three.” Each is […]
The reigning Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion dominated the Quaker State 400 to win the race for the second-consecutive year. Martin Truex Jr. started up front in the 2018 Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta on Saturday night. After a dominant performance that included 174 laps-led, he was also up front at the checkered […]
America loves a Comeback Kid. When Jimmie Johnson took the lead from Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on lap 109 of the Coke Zero 400, the fans in the grandstand responded. Jimmy Johnson “I was really surprised,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. “I was standing in the booth and Jimmie is battling here to take the lead. And when he did, visually […]
Stock car racing team Venturini Motorsports has had a tradition of employing women that stretches back for decades.On June 29, the ARCA outfit made history — starting three female drivers in the same race for the first time in the modern era of the sport. Natalie Decker, Leilani Münter and Toni Breidinger finishing 12th, 18th […]
Toyota pulled the wraps off of its new NASCAR Thursday at Daytona International Speedway and it looks like Goodwood won’t be the only place we’re seeing new Supra. The Supra will serve as the replacement for the Camry-inspired stock car starting in next year’s NASCAR Xfinity Series. Of course, in proud NASCAR tradition, this will just be a […]
Martin Truex Jr. earned his third victory of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season in the season’s 16th race, the Toyota/Save Mart 350. Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. earned one victory in the first 13 races of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season. The defending Cup Series champion has now won two of the last three […]
A father has put his own life in danger to rescue his son from a burning race car after it erupted into flames following a high-speed crash.Mike Jones was turning a corner at the South Boston Speedway in his NASCAR when he was tapped by a driver next to him and punted into a wall. […]
Martin Truex Jr. won for the second time in three tries at his home track. This is his 17th career win. Kyle Busch thought all the drama was taken out of the race in Stage 3. He couldn’t have been anymore wrong. When Kyle Larson clipped Derrick Cope resulting in a caution late in the […]
Would replace the Camry in the Xfinity Series Toyota may campaign the Supra in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series next season. That’s according to a report in Sports Business Journal. The Supra would replace the Camry, which has been Toyota’s model of choice since the manufacturer debuted in NASCAR in 2008. However, representatives from Toyota later denied that such a move is […]
The online video network Rated Red lit up the Internet last month with a puzzling report that NASCAR — synonymous with deafening engine roars and pungent gasoline vapors — would go all electric by 2021, inspired by the promise of a new 250-mph electric roadster from that uniquely American automaker, Tesla. The date on that […]
A year ago, when Hailie Deegan found herself a NASCAR Next rookie, she handled the media with ease, but as a 15-year-old on the threshold of a stock car racing career, the off-road “Dirt Princess” was admittedly shy. Today, the shyness is extinct, and at 16, Deegan ventures into her second year in the […]
Hot Kevin Harvick got a little bit hotter Saturday night in the KC Masterpiece 400 at Kansas Speedway, surviving a crazy final 30 laps and getting past defending race and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup champ Martin Truex Jr. with a lap and a half left to record his fifth victory of the season and his […]
The idea that the France family could sell NASCAR is once again picking up traction. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters posted a report late Monday that the France family is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “to identify a potential deal for the company.” Any deal would include a majority stake in the company. NASCAR was […]
The glorious thunder of the Talladega Superspeedway will one day be a living museum of sound.There is nothing like it, that mechanized conflagration of stock cars breathing an audible firestorm down the frontstretch, and there will not be anything like it ever again. “Do you hear that?” a future father or grandfather will one day […]