SM Staff

IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard announced today that both the IZOD IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights would crown their champions both at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 16th, 2011.

Time is supposed to help you heal, though still till this day ten years later, I still feel sadness when I think of Dale Earnhardt.

Well the long awaited start to the season is in the history books. The racing was long hard and not overly exciting at times. History did indeed repeat itself. But not the history folks believed would repeat.

JR Motorsports driver Danica Patrick started from a career-best qualifying position of fourth, and earned a career-best finish of 14th at the Drive4COPD 300 on Saturday.

It was uplifting to see the Wood family in victory lane once again. And they were all there—Leonard and Glen and their sons Len and Eddie.

NASCAR officially opened their 2011 season with the annual Daytona Speedweeks. By the time the checkers fell on the running of the 53d annual Daytona 500 last Sunday, that annual February effort was all about the presence of superstars.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series dreams really do come true. Bayne became the youngest winner of "The Great American Race", the Daytona 500.

The kickoff race for NASCAR, the Daytona 500, is always one of the biggest and most prestigious races of the season. Here is what was surprising and not surprising from the 53rd running of the Great American Race.

For the longest time Carl Edwards was considered a menace on the restrictor plate racetracks of Daytona and Talladega.

Jeff Gordon's 14 year reign as being the youngest driver ever to win the Daytona 500 was abolished today as Trevor Bayne, who was just making his second career Cup start.