While the opening two races of the 2012 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season have been on road courses, this weekend marks the first oval race of 2012, taking place on the half-mile Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP).
With a shortened race, a repaved track, a snazzy new Twitter partnership, and Doc Mattioli looking down from heaven, here is what was surprising and not surprising from the Pocono 400 presented by #NASCAR.
Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation and Kick-It will be teaming up on the kickball field by challenging supporters to kick cancer out of every childhood once and for all.
It wasn't that many years ago when the arrival of driver Joey Logano to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and Joe Gibbs Racing, was being heralded as "the best thing since sliced bread."
After the race at Pocono, we crowned winner Joey Logano, quieting some noise from those who thought he wasn’t fit for the Cup series. However, one question still hangs in the air, one that may be resolved this Tuesday.
After starting on the pole on Sunday, Joey Logano claimed his second Cup win in 125 starts. The Joe Gibbs Driver broke a 104 race win-less streak to become the youngest driver to win at Pocono, at 22 years and seven days old.
To start off my Summer Series, I've had the honor to interview the Nationwide Series driver sitting 32nd in points, driver of the No. 23 R3 Motorsports North Texas Pipe Chevrolet, Robert Richardson Jr.
Ty Dillon was attempting to win his first career race. James Buescher was looking to win in his home state. Both their chances ended in turn one at the Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night with less than 30 laps to go.
At the newly-paved Pocono Raceway, young Joey Logano put the moves on veteran Mark Martin, literally, to score the race win. This was career win number two for the driver of the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota and his first win of the season.
Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing wasn’t fueling around in Talladega Sunday. Brad Keselowski was the mastermind of a Stage One strategy that became the talk of the race.
The reigning two-time Cup Series champion from Elk Grove, California, led 23 of 189-overscheduled laps and went from 11th to 1st in half of the final lap during an overtime shootout to score his first superspeedway victory and increase his points lead by 73 points with two-scheduled events remaining.
