SM Staff

When then 20-year-old Trevor Bayne won the 2011 Daytona 500 for the Wood Brothers, many – including Bayne – thought he was on the fast track for a full-time ride in the series.

With the 2013 season approaching, Joe Gibbs Racing has many people picking them as a serious contender for the Sprint Cup Series championship.

NASCAR announced today the appointment of Jimmy Wilson to the position of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour director and Juston Ellis to the same position for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour.

What do Cup and Nationwide drivers David Ragan and Michael Annett have in common as they prepare to start the NASCAR racing season at Daytona next month?

Day Three of the Sprint Media Tour continued with a trip back to Charlotte Motor Speedway and Hendrick Motorsports on Wednesday. The day will end with a trip to Penske Racing, the home of reigning Sprint Cup Champion Brad Keselowski.

“I think after we left homestead, I think Jimmie, Jeff and I had this conversation – we wished we had a race the next week," Rick Hendrick said. "We had a lot of momentum there."

Today, our 2013 Sprint Cup team previews move on to Hendrick Motorsports, one of the powerhouses of the sport that is always a threat to win races and compete for championships. The 2013 lineup for Hendrick Motorsports will be the same as 2012, with Dale Earnhardt Jr, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, and Kasey Kahne returning.

When he was a youngster, it seems that Brad Keselowski had a personal occupation list of two jobs that he thought would be very cool. The first fantasy job was driving a race car for a living. Obviously, he can check that one off of his list of things to do. He more than earned that right in 2012 when he won the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship for Roger Penske Racing.

Day three of the NASCAR Media Tour came early in the morning at a hangar at Concord Regional Airport. It might seem strange to have a NASCAR function at an airport hangar, but it was soon to be very clear as the principals of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing and Chip Ganassi Racing took the stage.

As the opening event of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint cup season slowly and agonizingly drags itself into view (not unlike how a legless zombie might slowly tug itself on the ground as it pursues its latest dinner dish), so also begins the quiet exit-stage-left of the premier stock car racing organization’s greatest social experiment, otherwise infamously known as the Car Of Some Hideous Alternate Tomorrow.