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The days are quickly counting down to the rumble of engines at Martinsville Speedway for the STP 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race on March 30.

When three-time NASCAR Late Model Sportsman national champion Jack Ingram was told the here, there and everywhere competition would transition into a more compact tour of 29 races in 1982, the Asheville, N.C., driver figuratively licked his chops in anticipation.

After a successful season promoting rail safety with David Ragan in 2013, CSX will again partner with the race-winning driver and Front Row Motorsports' No. 34 team for the 2014 Sprint Cup Series season.

Two of the greatest names in racing soon will share the same address. The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, motor racing’s Cooperstown, announced today that it will move its operations and collection of historic racing machines and memorabilia from the Detroit area to the ”World Center of Racing,” Daytona International Speedway by January 2016.

A second victory in the Rolex 24 At Daytona this weekend would give Graham Rahal, among other things, permission to wear the timepiece presented to the winning co-drivers in each category.

This year’s Canadian Motorsports Expo Presented by Inside Track Motorsport News will mark the eighth consecutive year that Mobil 1 will be an exhibitor at Canada’s only motorsports-oriented trade and fan show. The CME takes place February 7, 8 & 9 in Hall 5 at the International Centre, across from Toronto’s Pearson Airport.

JR Motorsports has completed the construction and installation of solar panels atop its race shop and office, diversifying the ways in which the company gets its energy. The solar energy will reduce the company’s power usage from the grid by about 44 percent.

A brother, a contemporary, a rival, a colleague and a friend will all take the stage to induct this year’s Class of 2014 into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

On February 7, 8 & 9, Canadian Tire Motorsport Parkwill return to the Canadian Motorsports Expo for the eighth consecutive year. At the show, CTMP will highlight the continuing redevelopment of the nearly 900 acre facility, and showcase its impressive 2014 calendar, which caters to virtually every discipline of road racing competition.

NASCAR announced Thursday that it has reinstated Ty Norris, an executive with Michael Waltrip Racing. Norris had been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR last Sept. 9 as part of the penalties assessed to MWR following the sanctioning body’s review of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sept. 7 at Richmond International Raceway. Norris remains on indefinite NASCAR probation.