On Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway, Chase Elliott beat the likes of Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth to score his first career Nationwide Series win.
Anger and anguish describe Greg Biffle’s season-to-date, perfectly. The Roush Fenway Racing (RFR) veteran driver remains winless through 2014, and has only notched one top-10 finish in February at Daytona International Speedway.
Six races in the books, six different Sprint Cup Series winners. Though in each look at the list, a big name is missing -six-time Sprint Cup Series Champion Jimmie Johnson. With this year's points format making wins so important, one would think that'd be a big issue. However, Johnson says that he's felt no pressure so far.
Chase Elliott is certainly not your average 18 year-old. Most kids his age are not racing full-time, let alone winning a race at the national level. Elliott’s competing on a week-to-week basis in the Nationwide Series with some of the best drivers in NASCAR and beating them on a consistent basis, making him one extraordinary teenager.
Harvick backed up that time in the following two rounds of qualifying to score the pole for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. Harvick scored his first Texas Motor Speedway Nationwide Series pole with a lap of 29.195 seconds. It marks Harvick’s 25th career Nationwide Series pole.
In the midst of a two-week whirlwind period, lot of has gone down with relation to Denny Hamlin, health issues and the metal in his eye. There's a lot to be learned from the discussion and certainly things that should be noted moving forward.
Kurt Busch's nickname is the "Outlaw", but in realityCurtis Turner was a true outlaw. He was barred forever from NASCAR in 1961 because he tried to start a drivers union.
With five Nationwide Series starts under his belt, Chase Elliott is off to a good start this year with JRM Motorsports as he has posted four top 10 finishes, highlighted by a fifth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Every race has a pivotal moment and the IndyCar season opener was no different as a lot of people have been talking about the lap 82 restart. Will Power brought the field down and it appeared he slowed, which caused the whole field to accordion. As a result contact was made in the second half of the field, ending the race for both Marco Andretti and Jack Hawksworth.
Kyle Larson is back to try to add another O’Reilly Series victory to his resume and will be driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet entry when the green flag drops Saturday night at The Last Great Colosseum.
NHRA officials announced today the return of PowerEdge, a line of high-quality, competitively-priced commercial and heavy-duty truck aftermarket products, as the presenting sponsor of the 38th annual DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals at scenic Sonoma Raceway.
