Building upon the success of its August debut, Bristol LIVE expands its reach for the March 2014 event, adding two FM and two AM signals to its existing scanner frequency.
University of Tennessee football coach Butch Jones and Virginia Tech head man Frank Beamer, whose teams meet in the Battle at Bristol in two years, serve as co-Grand Marshals for NASCAR’s Sprint Cup stop in Bristol this week.
Richard Childress Racing teammates Paul Menard, Ryan Newman and Austin Dillon finished third, seventh and 16th, respectively. Ryan Newman ranks ninth in the Sprint Cup Series championship point standings, trailing current leader Dale Earnhardt Jr. by 36 points, while Austin Dillon ranks 13th and Paul Menard ranks 18th.
Trevor Bayne and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane team bounced back from a disappointing start to the Kobalt Tools 400 weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and came away with a top-20 finish.
In his ninth Nationwide Series start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Mike Bliss and the No.19 TriStar Motorsports Camry were looking for their first top-10 finish of the 2014 season. During both practice sessions on Friday, the No.19 TriStar Motorsports crew was able to make the adjustments needed to get Bliss's car ready for qualifying on Saturday morning.
Blake Koch and the No. 44 TriStar Motorsports Camry were ready to get on track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday after having a fast car during Friday's practice sessions. The team made slight adjustments during practice to get prepped for the Boyd Gaming 300.
After engine issues plagued Eric McClure with a 40th-place finish in last year's Boyd Gaming 300, he and the No. 14 Hefty®/Reynolds Wrap® team returned to Las Vegas Motor Speedway looking for redemption. Despite starting the 300-mile event from the 30th position, McClure and the team worked together to not only overcome handling issues on the No. 14 Camry, but also a pit road speeding penalty late in the race to finish the 300-mile event in the 27th position
With the bad luck that Kraig Kinser ran into on the race track in Las Vegas, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the strong winds that rolled into Tucson International Raceway in Arizona on Saturday night would have interrupted him as they did other drivers, but that thankfully was not the case.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 Mountain Dew Kick Start Chevrolet SS came ever so close to scoring his second win of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season. Earnhardt lead a total of 51 laps in the race, including 44 of the final 45 before running out of fuel down the backstretch on the final lap at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) in the Kobalt Tools 400. He was able to carry his momentum across the finish line to come home second.
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – “We were really good in clean air, which everybody probably is, but in dirty air it’s a completely different car and really, really hard to drive. Overall, it was a solid day and another top five. That’s good, but like I said last week, it’s all about the win.”
