After a week away, Landon Cassill will return to the seat of the No. 4 JD Motorsports with Gary Keller Chevrolet for Saturday’s 5-Hour Energy 200 Nationwide Series race at Dover International Speedway.
Mike Wallace returns to Dover International Speedway this weekend with a target in mind.In the Nationwide Series’ last visit to the fast one-mile track, Wallace recorded a disappointing 31st-place run. He’s looking for more in Saturday’s 5-Hour Energy 200 as the season winds into its closing weeks.
Michael Waltrip Racing driver Clint Bowyer has a new paint scheme for his No. 15 Toyota this weekend at Dover International Speedway. The scheme introduces a new, limited edition, specially marked Raspberry flavor of 5-hour ENERGY and is benefitting Living Beyond Breast Cancer.
Preseason Thunder, the annual test session held at Daytona International Speedway in preparation for the season-opening races at the 2.5-mile superspeedway, will expand in 2014 to include all three NASCAR national series – the NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Nationwide and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Camry driver Matt Kenseth took the checkered flag in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) for his second-consecutive win to start the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship playoff. Kenseth led the field four times for a race-high 106 laps (of 300) to claim his seventh win of 2013 -- marking the most by a driver in the NSCS this year and the most victories by Kenseth in any season of his career. The triumph also came in Kenseth's 500th NSCS start, matching a feat only previously accomplished by Richard Petty.
Detroit-based Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online home lender and country's third largest mortgage originator, today announced it will join Richard Childress Racing (RCR) for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and serve as the primary sponsor of Ryan Newman's No. 31 Chevrolet SS for 12 races and associate sponsor for all remaining races. The move continues a strong partnership between Quicken Loans and Newman, whom they first sponsored in 2012.
Dover Preview: Hamlin is making his 16th career Cup Series start at Dover (Del.) International Speedway on Sunday. He has qualified on the pole in each of the last two races at the ‘Monster Mile,’ including the Chase race at the track one year ago. In that event, Hamlin led 39 laps en route to an eighth-place finish. Earlier this year in the FedEx 400 at Dover, Hamlin started first and led 41 laps, but a blown right-front tire with less than 25 laps remaining ended the team’s day in 34th.
One of the most recognizable structures in all of motorsports today received a new addition, as the Monster Monument in Victory Plaza at Dover International Speedway now features a “Gen 6” Toyota Camry in the Monster’s hand, just in time for the Sept. 27-29, 2013 NASCAR race weekend.
In 18 starts at the one-mile track, Edwards has one win, eight top-five and 12 top-10 finishes. Edwards scored his only Cup win there in Sept. ’07. He has an average start of 15.2 and an average finish of 8.6.
Wonder bread will be the primary sponsor of Kurt Busch’s No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet during the Oct. 18-20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekend at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
The only thing that seems certain in racing is that unforeseen events can bring down the best in the business, and the Kaulig team is far from the best this year- so far.
Reigning champion Isaac Kitzmiller carries strong momentum into Rockingham Speedway, aiming for his first career victory and a second consecutive championship.
Two-time Funny Car world champion Cruz Pedregon has the unique distinction of winning NHRA’s 1,000th race (Las Vegas, 2021) as well as the 900th race in Funny Car history
