Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 Fastenal Ford Fusion, held a Q&A session this afternoon before practice for Sunday’s Daytona 500. He spoke about a variety of topics with members of the media.
Tracy Hines had a pretty successful trip to Florida last season, winning two of the three Amsoil USAC National Sprint Car Series races at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala. Making the feat even more impressive was the fact that those races were the first three events he ran in a self-owned machine, after quickly putting a team together in the short couple of months following the 2012 campaign.
Matt Crafton has a high level of consistency at the highest levels of NASCAR national series racing mastered, and his 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers' championship is proof of that.
If support equaled race wins, it wouldn't be necessary for Jeb Burton to even take the green flag Friday night in his No. 13 VAMP / VaporBrands International, Inc. Toyota Tundra in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season-opening NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway.
At an event today at the SPRINT Fan Zone at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR officially unveiled newly designed bodies for NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race trucks – set to debut on Friday night in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona (7:30 p.m. on FOX Sports 1, Motor Racing Network Radio and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Longwood, Fla. based company, Insurance Office of America (IOA), has partnered with the Tommy Baldwin Racing's (TBR) No.7 Pilot Flying J Chevy SS as an associate sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Duels and the 56th running of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.
Flex Seal, a solid partner with JD Motorsports with Gary Keller for several racing seasons, will return in 2014 to support both JDM drivers – Jeffrey Earnhardt and Landon Cassill – in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
The 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) season opens at Daytona International Speedway (DIS) this Saturday, February 22. Danica Patrick, who embarks on her second full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season this year, will be behind the wheel of the No. 30 Florida Lottery Chevrolet Camaro for Turner Scott Motorsports (TSM) in the NNS season opener.
"For my family, this is the biggest race in the world and the most special place in the world. This is 20 years since they (Morgan-McClure Motorsports) won it, this year. For us, growing up, Daytona was everything. So, the opportunity to have a chance to compete in the Daytona 500 would be a lifelong dream.