Mario Andretti, who won three Indy car races and the 1977 Formula One race on the streets of Long Beach, Calif., will be the grand marshal of the 40th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 13.
Making his 20th Nationwide Series start at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend, Mike Bliss and the No. 19 TriStar Motorsports Camry are looking for their first top-10 finish of the 2014 season.
Up and coming NASCAR Nationwide Series driver, Kelly Admiraal, has officially announced the signing of Swan Rentals as Primary Sponsorship for a partial NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule for 2014.
McDowell is not short on experience with race stats on tracks less than one-mile in length. He has 25 starts on short tracks in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. "Bristol Motor Speedway is awesome. I cannot wait to get there this week.
“Bristol has been a really great race track for me and our whole Roush Fenway group. We’ve had a lot of fun there and we have a lot of wins in the Truck, Nationwide and Cup series. I had the chance to go out there earlier this season and talk to the folks at Bristol.
NASCAR notified its teams this afternoon that effective immediately the following modifications apply to all elements of its national series qualifying including the breaks:
“Bristol will always be a little bit special to me because it is the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race I made,” Allmendinger said. “I enjoy it, but like I have said before it is just a tough place. You fight for 500 laps around there.
Rome has its Colosseum and so does the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit. Bristol Motor Speedway self-titled its .533-mile oval, the “last great Colosseum.” Clint Bowyer and the rest of NASCAR travel there this weekend ready to do battle.
“I am excited to get to go back to Bristol. We had a great run there last year with the 16 team and I believe that returning with the experience is going to be beneficial. It is a track that is similar to the tracks that I ran well at in the ARCA Series.
Spire Motorsports has logged one top five, four top 10s and one pole award. Corey LaJoie owns the team's best finish, a fourth-place effort earned in October 2023.
NHRA announced today that “Chasing Speed,” a six-part docuseries that recently aired on VICE TV, will debut in full on NHRA’s YouTube page on Wednesday.
