Tag: Jamie McMurray

• Pain for Montoya and NASCAR

  July 26th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 6 Comments
  

  Sunday’s Brickyard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Indianapolis was a heartbreaker for Juan Pablo Montoya. For the second year in a row Montoya dominated the race, only to crash in the closing laps after a fateful mistake to take on four tyres rather than two in the last round… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, Miscellaneous, NASCAR

  Tags: Chip Ganassi, Daytona 500, Indianapolis, Jamie McMurray, Juan Pablo Montoya, NASCAR Sprint Cup

• Harvick wins Talledega fight

  April 26th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 2 Comments
  

  Kevin Harvick scored a textbook win in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race on the giant Talledega superspeedway in Alabama. Over the closing laps he kept his nose within inches of Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray’s tail and pulled out to pass in the final quarter-mile. Harvick got McMurray’s car loose… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, NASCAR

  Tags: Dale Earnhardt, Daytona, Earnhardt-Ganassi, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jimmi Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Harvick, Pennzoil, Richard Childress, Shell, Talladega

• Johnson back on winning form

  February 22nd, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
  

  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

  Sections: Grand-Am, IRL, NASCAR

  Tags: Chevrolet, Daytona, Earnhardt-Ganassi, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Burton, Jimmie Johnson, Joe Gibbs, Joey Logano, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Harvick, Mark Martin, NASCAR, Richard Childress, Toyota

• Martin makes his mark at Daytona

  February 8th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
  

  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

  Sections: Blogs, Grand-Am, IRL, NASCAR, Other reports

  Tags: Alan Gustafson, Bobby Gerhart, Chevrolet, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, Daytona, Hendrick Motorsports, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Mark Martin, Nelson Piquet Jr., Richard Childress, Richard Petty, Rick Hendrick

• A classic Daytona win

  February 1st, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
  

  This year’s Rolex 24 hours at Daytona produced a similar result to last year with a Brumos Porsche winning from one of Chip Ganassi’s two cars, but without 2009’s drama when Juan Pablo Montoya battled fiercely with David Donohue. The closing hours of this year’s race were disappointingly flat as… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, Other reports, Sportscars

  Tags: Alex Gurney, BMW, Cayene, Colin Braun, Dario Franchitti, David Donohue, Daytona, Ganassi, Gary Nelson, Jamie McMurray, Jimmie Johnson, Jimmy Vasser, Joao Barbosa, Jon Fogarty, Juan Pablo Montoya, Justin Wilson, Lucas Luhr, Max Papis, Memo Rojas, Mike Colluci, Mike Rockenfeller, Mike Shank, Nic Jonson, Porsche, Ricardo Zonta, Richard Westbrook, Riley, Ryan Dalziel, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Scott Dixon, Scott Pruett, Scott Tucker, Terry Borcheller, Tracy Krohn, Wayne Taylor

• Kenseth wins Daytona 500

  February 16th, 2009 | Gordon Kirby | No Comments
  

  Matt Kenseth and Jack Roush’s Roush Fenway Ford team may have been the only happy people in Daytona on Sunday night. Kenseth scored both his and Roush’s first Daytona 500 victory as well as his first win in more than a year after taking the lead from Elliott Sadler immediately… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, NASCAR

  Tags: AJ Allmendinger, Brian Vickers, Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Elliott Sadler, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth