EXPRESS NOTES: Phoenix Recap: Denny Hamlin drove the #11 FedEx Freight Toyota Camry to a 12th-place finish in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, the penultimate race of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and Round 9 of the Chase for the championship.
Joey Logano has had the chance before. In his rookie season of 2008, the youngster took part in a duel burnout celebration with then NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Clint Bowyer when Logano piloted the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to a 10th-place finish and a clinch of the 2008 Nationwide Series Owner’s Championship.
Friday night just one team and driver will celebrate the winning of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship; for dozens of other teams and drivers the race signifies the end to a long season of hard work trying to reach the podium at the annual banquet.
This Week's 5 Hour Energy Toyota ... Steve Wallace will pilot Rusty Wallace Racing chassis RWR-070 in Saturday afternoon's Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Racing legend and St. Louis, Missouri native Rusty Wallace, will be honored by his hometown this Wednesday, as an inductee into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.
With only one race remaining in the 2011 season, Roush Fenway Racing holds the points’ lead in both of NASCAR’s two major series and will look to make history this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway; becoming the only team in NASCAR history to win both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series’ titles in the same season, while bringing home the team’s historic 300th NASCAR win in the process.
Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet team will close out the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season in Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to today's NASCAR teleconference. Our guest today is Kevin Harvick. Harvick has finished in the top five in three consecutive races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Layne Riggs is back in action, this weekend in Lakeville, Connecticut, at Lime Rock Park. Riggs enters the 100-lap event coming off of his last lap win at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego just two weeks ago.
Sunday night’s Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart winner will receive more than a trophy – they’ll take home an exclusive Harley-Davidson motorcycle celebrating America’s Semiquincentennial.
The start of a season-long celebration honoring one of the NHRA’s greatest legends and four iconic events will make up the opening of the 2027 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season.
NASCAR’s Cup and O’Reilly Auto Parts series head to EchoPark Speedway, just outside of Atlanta, for the second time this season in a return to drafting track racing.