This weekend’s race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course marks the third and final road course race of the season for the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS). Saturday’s race is Reed’s first start at the 2.4-mile road course.
3M will join 11-time Sprint Cup Series champions Hendrick Motorsports beginning with the 2015 NASCAR season when it will become a primary sponsor of driver Jeff Gordon and his No. 24 Chevrolet SS team.
Richard Childress Racing at Michigan International Speedway ... In 144 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Michigan International Speedway, RCR teams have earned three wins, two with Dale Earnhardt (1987, 1990) and the most recent with Kevin Harvick (August 2010).
Trevor Bayne will have a special guest on the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Mustang this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200. Five-year-old Blake Hames, of Westerville, OH, will have his face on the hood and his name on the passenger side door of the No. 6 Ford as part of Nationwide Children’s Hospital Patient Champion Program.
Ryan Truex and the No. 83 Burger King / Dr Pepper Toyota Camry team finished 39th at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International on Sunday afternoon. After racing inside the top-20 early in the event, Truex fought a broken track bar late in the race and was relegated to a 39th-place finish.
Cole Whitt and the No. 26 Bully Hill Vineyard Toyota Camry team finished 43rd at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International on Sunday afternoon. Severe damage from an incident caused by brake failure left Whitt unable to continue in the event after just nine laps.
Alex Bowman and the No. 23 Dustless Blasting Toyota Camry finished 36th at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International on Sunday afternoon. Bowman received extensive front-end damage after being involved in a lap 56 accident, which forced the rookie's BK Racing team to lose valuable time and track position while making necessary repairs.
Driving his No. 99 Cheez-It Ford in the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen, Edwards arrived to Watkins Glen International hoping to sweep the road courses in 2014. The Missouri-native lined up 16th to start and landed his fifth top-five finish, taking his Ford Fusion to a fifth place finish at the checkered flag.
Elite Motorsports hits the halfway mark of the Mission Foods NHRA Drag Racing Series season with this weekend’s Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park (SMP).
The NHRA announced today that its broadcasting team has been honored with six prestigious Telly Awards, including a Gold Telly award for its Chasing Speed documentary.
The NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) heads to Sonoma Raceway for the Toyota / Save Mart 350 on Sunday, June 28 at 3:30 p.m. ET on TNT, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Channel 90).
Certainly when the Cup Series heads a little more than 530 miles north to Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway for this Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350k, decorum and civility will return.
After competing on an active military base for the first time, the NASCAR Cup Series will return to a more traditional road course this weekend as Sonoma Raceway hosts its annual event on Sunday.
