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.
Nick Leitz, Brent Crews, Corey Heim and Gavan Boschele will be piloting TRICON's No. 1 Toyota entry throughout the Truck Series' seven-race Chase stretch and pursuit of the owner's title.
The second race in the Chase for the NASCAR Cup Series is set for this weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway, a place where Ford has won twice in the four years that circuit has been on the schedule.
The 2013 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion from Berlin, Connecticut, implemented a late gamble by racing on worn tires than a majority of the field to finish 10th in the Chase opener and jump from 16th to 15th in the standings.
The 2025 Brickyard 400 champion from Mobile, Alabama, gained three spots in the Chase standings to 10th after commencing his title run with a combined 15 stage points and an eighth-place run in the Southern 500.
