Martinsville Preview: After a three-week stint out West, the Series makes its way back to the East Coast for a 500-lap short track race at Martinsville Speedway. Hamlin is no stranger to the flat, half-mile oval, and after 24 Cup Series starts at the ‘paperclip’, the Chesterfield, Va., native has collected a career-best five wins and three pole positions, as well as 12 top-five and 18 top-10 finishes. He was forced to a 30th-place finish at last year’s spring event after sustaining damage from a multi-car wreck late in the race.
Gordon Brothers, the global advisory, restructuring, and investment firm, announced that it has been engaged by Triad Racing Technologies (“TRT”) to sell the assets associated with its race engine shop located in Mooresville, NC. TRT builds NASCAR race engines and body parts and is a primary vendor for Toyota Racing Development.
Champions Emerson Fittipaldi and Bobby Rahal join the list of Verizon IndyCar Series legends who will appear at the Desert Diamond West Valley Casino Phoenix Grand Prix weekend April 6-7, when ISM Raceway will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mario Andretti’s last career win.
DGR-CROSLEY announced today that 20-year-old Kyle Benjamin will drive the team's No. 54 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) entry this weekend at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Benjamin brings a mixture of both youth and experience to the newly formed team.
It was a perfect weekend for Martin Truex Jr., who dominated and won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in his No. 78 Bass Pro Shops/5-hour ENERGY Toyota.
It was a solid day with a second place finish for Kyle Larson and his No. 42 DC Solar Camaro ZL1 in the Auto Club 400 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race at Auto Club Speedway. The defending event winner posted his third top-10 finish in five races at the challenging 2-mile California track. The result also marked Larson’s third top-10 finish thus far in the 2018 season. He was able to rally from contact with Kevin Harvick on Lap 37 of the 200-lap race, and then from a brake issue later in the event.
Tanner Gray added to the family’s Wally collection from Gainesville Raceway with a Pro Stock victory in the 49th Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway.
KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 DC SOLAR CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 2nd: YOU ENDED UP BRINGING IT HOME SECOND BUT YOU HEARD KEVIN HARVICK SAY HE TOOK THE BLAME FOR THE INCIDENT, HOW DID THE TWO OF YOU COME TOGETHER EARLIER IN THE RACE? “We were racing really hard and I was better than him in three and four and he was better than me in one and two. I would side draft him down the front stretch and he would side draft me down the back stretch and I don’t know if he was just coming down to side draft me or what but we made contact and it spun his car to the right."
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Wurth Ford Fusion - Finishing Position: 4th “Martin was real strong for sure. I’m not sure what happened there to Kevin, but we were really good on the short runs and made some good moves and led to a decent day.” THE SHORT RUN VS. THE LONG RUN. IS THAT WHAT BIT YOU TODAY? “We had exceptional speed today with the Wurth Ford Fusion on the short runs, but not very much for them there on the long runs, that’s for sure. I was hoping to get a late-race caution and I could make it exciting for the fans that are here, but it didn’t pan out that way.”
A $50,000 fine and a 25-point dock for Ryan Preece highlights the penalty report from this past weekend's triple-header weekend of racing at Texas Motor Speedway.
In four NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Watkins Glen International (WGI) Spire Motorsports earned its lone top-10 finish when Sammy Smith finished sixth in last year’s Mission 176 at the Glen.
