Carl Edwards has emerged as the strongest challenger to Kyle Busch for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. The 29-year old Edwards scored his fifth win of the year at the high-banked Michigan superspeedway last Sunday, beating championship rival Busch who again led his share of the race and came… Read more
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Can Carl Edwards beat Kyle Busch?
August 20th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
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An Aussie wins in NASCAR & Franchitti shows his stuff too
August 13th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
NASCAR ran it’s twenty-third consecutive Cup race at Watkins Glen last weekend, drawing the usual huge crowd. Championship leader Kyle Busch emphasised his ability to win on any kind of track as the 23-year old scored his eighth Sprint Cup victory of the year and led team-mate Tony Stewart to… Read more
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NASCAR has arrived in Canada
August 8th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
It’s taken NASCAR only twelve months to take centre stage in Canadian motor sport. NASCAR entered the Canadian market last year, debuting a mid-summer, second-division Nationwide Series race at le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal and the first NASCAR Canadian stock car championship series sponsored by Canadian Tire, the country’s… Read more
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Jacques tries NASCAR again
August 1st, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
Jacques Villeneuve will try to kick-start his stalled attempt at breaking into NASCAR this weekend. The former F1 world champion, CART champion and Indy 500 winner hasn’t raced in NASCAR since crashing-out of the Daytona 500 in February, but Jacques returns to stock car racing this weekend at the wheel… Read more
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Parnelli Jones’s radical ideas
May 2nd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 4 Comments
Parnelli Jones is one of the living legends of American racing, up there in the pantheon with Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney. Jones dominated three of the seven Indy 500s he started and won the race in 1963, beating Jim Clark. He looked to be a clear winner… Read more
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Busch and Toyota are NASCAR’s hottest combination
March 14th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
Kyle Busch (above) has threatened to win every NASCAR Sprint Cup race run this year and at the high-banked Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend the 22-year old finally put it all together to score a dominant victory. After three years with Rick Hendrick’s Chevrolet team, Busch was dropped by Hendrick… Read more
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‘The show’ rolls on
March 7th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
Three races into the world’s longest racing season and NASCAR’s soap opera already is at full cry. In his debut with Hendrick Motorsports – stock car racing’s most successful modern team – NASCAR’s most popular driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has run very competitively in the opening races, sending waves of… Read more
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Start your engines
What a weekend; annoyingly much of the racing at California Speedway for the NASCAR races was disrupted by the rain but this turned out to be much more entertaining than I could have imagined. Of course, the words ‘rain’ and ‘California’ are rarely mentioned in the same sentence but we… Read more
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LA and NASCAR… the perfect weekend?
February 25th, 2008 | Ed Foster | No Comments
As this goes live on Monday February 25 I will be 30,000 feet above the Atlantic, returning from the NASCAR race at California Speedway. As you can imagine, I am more exited than a six-year-old child before Christmas.
As someone who has never been to the U.S. of A., let… Read more -
IRL and Champ Car merger is the first of many steps
February 22nd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 2 Comments
As NASCAR’s Big Show moves from Daytona to southern California, news broke this week that IRL and Champ Car are on the brink of announcing a formal merger. The great chimera of reunification of American open-wheel racing is at hand after a bitterly debilitating twelve-year civil war.
Will this desperate,… Read more
