Fans at Phoenix International Raceway will be in for a thrill at the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 when Hayley Orrantia, one of the stars ABC’s hit sitcom “The Goldbergs,” performs the national anthem on stage before the start of the race. The final Eliminator race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 9 at 1:00 p.m. MST (3:00 p.m. EST) and will be televised live on ESPN.
Like most NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers, McMurray depends on private air travel to get back and forth to races, sponsor appearances and test sessions. McMurray spent a few hours Tuesday touring the Cessna Citation Service Center in Greensboro, NC, talking about airplanes and racing as part of a media event touting the upcoming Goody’s® Headache Relief Shot® 500 at Martinsville Speedway.
NASCAR announced its 2015 rules package for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series this afternoon. Ford Racing spoke with Roush Yates Engines CEO Doug Yates and got his reaction to these changes.
Red Horse Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway... In 16 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Red Horse Racing has earned one win (Timothy Peters, 2013), four top-five and eight top-10 finishes.
Taming the Monster...James Buescher and the No.99 Rheem team return to Dover International Speedway this week coming off a top-15 finish last week at Kentucky Speedway. Buescher has three NASCAR Nationwide Series starts at the 1.0-mile high-banked oval with an average finish of 10.7.
Following more than a year of extensive collaboration with stakeholders throughout the industry, and with a keen eye towards the future, NASCAR has finalized and delivered to teams the 2015 racing package for all three national series.
Heading into the third race of the Challenger Round of NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup, the No. 2 Team Penske Ford will once again fly the Wurth colors as its primary sponsor this weekend. Through the opening two rounds of the Chase, Keselowski and the No. 2 Wurth Ford Fusion have held the top spot in the standings.
Stenhouse Jr. has four career Sprint Cup starts at the Monster Mile. He has an average starting position of 20.2 and average finishing position of 20.8.
Trevor Bayne makes his seventh NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Dover (Del.) International Speedway on Saturday afternoon. In six previous starts at the one-mile oval, Bayne has recorded two top-five finishes, five top-10 finishes and has an average finish of 9.3.
Vermeer Midwest will partner with Zane Smith and the No. 38 Ford Mustang Dark Horse team for the NASCAR Cup Series return to Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, July 5.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series are set to compete this weekend at Rockingham Speedway. The ARCA Menards Series East will join them on Saturday morning.
JR Motorsports has competed at Rockingham Speedway a combined four times in the NOAPS. In those starts at the 1.017-mile oval, the organization has recorded one win, one top-five and one top-10. The average finish is 12.8.
