Day three of the Sprint Media Tour concluded with Team Penske. Penske’s lineup is somewhat different this year. Returning members are 2012 Sprint Cup Champion Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, and Ryan Blaney. Blaney will split his time between the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series in 2014.
Win-Tron Racing and Mason Mingus will move their program to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) full time beginning next season. Mingus, 19, will pilot the team’s No. 35 entry after being with the team last season in the ARCA Racing Series.
Wednesday was Ford Day at the 2014 Sprint Media Tour. We visited with Roush-Fenway Racing and the combination of Wood Brothers Racing and Front Row Racing to begin the day.
Day two of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour presented by Sprint was Chevrolet Day. The NASCAR media met with Chip Ganassi Racing, Richard Childress Racing, Furniture Row Racing, and Hendrick Motorsports. First was Chip Ganassi Racing, newly renamed for this season. It was formerly known as Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing.
The final two stops on day two of the tour featured Furniture Row Racing and Hendrick Motorsports. Furniture Row found its most success last season with Kurt Busch in the driver’s seat, but Busch has been replaced by Martin Truex, Jr., who piloted a Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota in 2013.
As ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards teams continued to prepare for the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, three teams headed to Talladega Superspeedway to test - Ken Schrader Racing, Mason Mitchell Motorsports and Cunningham Motorsports.
Last year, Kurt Busch made racing headlines when he tested an IndyCar for Andretti Autosport at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Busch, at the time, expressed desires about possibly running the Indianapolis 500.
When Stewart-Haas Racing announced that they were expanding to four cars in 2014 with Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch and Danica Patrick, the media immediately predicted that things would go crazy. Though so far, those predictions are false as Busch says that they're all getting along and can easily understanding each other.
This week’s NASCAR Behind the Scenes focuses on one of the sports hardest working reporters Bob Pockrass, who received the National Motorsports Press Association’s...
The final stop on the Sprint Media Tour presented by Charlotte Motor Speedway was a double stop with JTG Daugherty Racing and Leavine Family Racing. These two smaller teams are trying to make inroads in the Sprint Cup Series and have high hopes for 2014.
Shane van Gisbergen started on the pole, led the most laps and captured the checkered flag in today’s Pit Boss/FoodMaxx 250 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Sonoma Raceway.
The three-time Supercars champion from Auckland, New Zealand, led a race-high 66 of 79 laps and had enough fuel to notch his second O'Reilly Auto Parts Series victory at Sonoma in three years.
