Superspeedway Racin'...Justin Allgaier will make his third NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Talladega Superspeedway (TSS) on Sunday afternoon. TSS is one of four tracks where Allgaier made NSCS starts last year in the No. 51 BRANDT Chevy. He has completed all laps in his two NSCS starts at the 2.66-mile superspeedway. Allgaier has five starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) at TSS, with one top-five and three top-10 finishes, along with four laps led. TSS is the fourth and final superspeedway race of the 2014 season.
The anticipated more-rapid qualifying format for both the GEICO 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) and fred’s 250 Powered By Coca-Cola NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) races at Talladega Superspeedway will be unveiled this weekend and should create an extra element of fan excitement at the 2.66-mile venue. It marks the first time the new five-minute, three-round system will be used in 2014.
Two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip’s hardest hit in life came when his sister called to tell him their mother, Margaret Waltrip, had suffered a major stoke due to arterial fibrillation (AFib.)
CAMRY CHASERS: All three Joe Gibbs Racing drivers are in the top-10 in points as the final race in the 'Contender' round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship approaches this weekend at Alabama's Talladega Superspeedway.
Wood Brothers Racing and its driver, Trevor Bayne, expect the famed No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion to be running toward the front of the pack all day in the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, Oct. 19.
Will it be a morale booster or a morale buster? That’s the $64,000 question for 43 of the best stock car drivers as they approach Sunday’s Geico 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
Teenager racing sensation Cody Ware, a part-time NASCAR Nationwide Series competitor will make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) debut in Saturday’s fred’s 250 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
Assuming Trevor Bayne successfully qualifies the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday, Sunday’s GEICO 500 will mark the Wood Brothers’ 400th start on a Sprint Cup speedway two miles in length or longer.
Close quarters, full-contact action is something mixed martial arts star Miesha Tate does every time she steps into the octagon. Martinsville Speedway is also no stranger to close quarters, full-contact action. The two will come together when the Sprint Cup Series returns to the iconic half-mile track on Oct. 26.
The excitement of the newly reformatted Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup reached a new level Saturday evening at Charlotte Motor Speedway as emotions proved volatile amongst championship contenders.
Antron Brown won for the first time at Bristol Dragway on Sunday, defeating points leader Shawn Langdon in a thrilling final round of the 25th annual Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
The 29-year-old Nemechek from Mooresville, North Carolina, led a race-high 42 laps and tied his career-best result by finishing fourth at the Tricky Triangle.
Four-time Top Fuel world champion Antron Brown won for the first time at Bristol Dragway on Sunday, defeating points leader Shawn Langdon in a thrilling final round of the 25th annual Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.
