The 2012 Camping World Truck Series season was one for the record books. A new champion, James Buescher, was crowned while nine different drivers scored their first career wins. There were also 16 different winners during the season’s 22 races.
Every NASCAR fan can agree that the Sprint Cup Series has an excess number of mile and a half tracks on the schedule. Mile and a half tracks don’t feature the close, competitive racing that superspeedway’s, short tracks and road courses do. NASCAR is always looking for fan input on the series and one suggestion they’re not listening to is fans no longer wanting as many mile and a half tracks on the schedule.
Now that the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season is in the history books. It is time to look back at how the top teams in the sport performed in 2012. Some teams rose to the occasion and performed at the top of their game while others disappointed and performed below expectations. Here are my grades for the 2012 season.
Dreams. They come in all shapes and sizes. Little dreams, big dreams. Some dreams include finding happiness in life or dreaming to make yourself a better person.
Regan Smith had just won his first career Nationwide Series race Saturday night in Homestead. He did so after a five year hiatus in one those cars. And he won with the organization he’ll drive for full-time in 2013.
In a weekend full of champion-crowning, here is what was surprising and not surprising from the NASCAR Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Let’s take a flashback to the beginning of the season; the smell of a new race season filled the air with endless possibilities. After a busy off-season everyone was excited to see the first race of the season and see all the drivers in their new cars.
INDYCAR has announced the addition of Firestone Firehawk alternate-compound tires for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season finale, the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix Presented by Gainbridge on Sept. 14-15 at Nashville Superspeedway.
Toyota Motor Corporation announced that the development and production plans for its next-generation batteries and all-solid-state batteries were certified by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) as part of the Japanese government's "Supply Assurance Plan for Batteries."
As the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series heads into its Countdown to the Championship playoffs, drivers and teams will be laser-focused on an NHRA world championship
NASCAR held its Cup Series Playoff Media Day at the Charlotte Convention Center on Wednesday, September 4. Ford has a manufacturer-high six drivers in the field of 16 and each answered questions from the media.
Hendrick Motorsports has won three of the five races at Atlanta Motor Speedway under the current configuration put in place in 2022. William Byron has two of those victories.
Justin Haley, driver of the No. 51 Grady Health System Ford Mustang Dark Horse, will make his eighth NASCAR Cup Series start at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Sunday’s Quaker State 400.
