Jeff Gordon has announced that he will keep racing for an undetermined period of time – at least another five or six years. Gordon, 38, is NASCAR’s most successful active driver with four championships and 82 wins to his credit.
He has been racing Sprint Cup cars for 18 years,… Read more
Order was restored in NASCAR as defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson bounced back from failing to finish the Daytona 500 to score the 48th win of his career in Sunday’s 500-mile race at the California Speedway.
Johnson was the man to beat in California, leading 101 of the race’s… Read more
Jamie McMurray scored a surprise win in Sunday’s Daytona 500, following two long delays because of a crumbling track and a series of late-race accidents.
McMurray was in sixth place for two of the last three restarts but was second for the final restart and, helped by Greg Biffle pushing… Read more
Delta Wing Indycar concept unveiled
The Delta Wing Indycar concept was revealed on Tuesday at the Chicago Auto Show. Designed by former Lola designer and current Chip Ganassi engineer Ben Bowlby, the Delta Wing aims to revolutionise Indycar racing in 2012, with a low-drag design that eliminates front wings and… Read more
NASCAR’s season kicked off on Saturday with qualifying for this Sunday’s Daytona 500, followed by the Budweiser Shootout 75-lap non-points-scoring sprint race under the lights. Qualifying was swept by Hendrick Motorsports as veteran Mark Martin took pole and team-mate Dale Earnhardt Jr qualified on the outside front row. Thursday’s pair… Read more
I had a long conversation recently with Michael Andretti for the book I’m writing about Newman/Haas Racing. Andretti drove for Newman/Haas for 10 seasons between 1989-2000, scoring 35 of his 42 Indycar wins with the team. He won the 1991 CART title with Newman/Haas when Indycar racing was at its… Read more
Richard Petty has been in NASCAR for 50 years as a driver and team owner. His family’s racing roots go back to 1949 when his father Lee competed in NASCAR’s first Grand National race. Lee won 54 races and three NASCAR titles. His son Richard started racing in 1958 and… Read more
Richard Petty is known as the King of NASCAR, and rightfully so. Over 25 years between 1960-84 Petty won 200 NASCAR races and seven championships. He started racing in 1958 and retired at end of ’92 after an epic career. Today, Richard Petty Motorsports continues to race, fielding four cars… Read more
Johnson sets new NASCAR record
Jimmie Johnson won an unprecedented fourth straight NASCAR championship in style at the Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Johnson qualified on pole, ran at the front, and finished a strong fifth as he led Hendrick Motorsports team-mates Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon to a 1-2-3 championship… Read more
Mika Salo and Jarno Trulli each spent a day this week behind the wheel of one of Michael Waltrip Racing’s Toyota NASCAR Sprint Cup cars.
Prior to their adventures at the half-mile New Smyrna Speedway, the pair spent last weekend with Waltrip’s team at the Phoenix NASCAR race. The little… Read more
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