NASCAR Cup Series

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.

Penske Corporation and Shell confirmed today a multi-year extension of their ongoing alliance in North America. As part of the agreement, Shell and Pennzoil will continue sponsoring Penske Racing entries in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the IZOD IndyCar Series as well as continue to be the preferred supplier of fuels, lubricants and related products to the Penske organization.

Penske Racing proudly welcomes The Hertz Corporation (NYSE:HTZ) as a new partner in 2013 as one of the world’s leading car rental and transportation companies joins forces with one of NASCAR’s top teams.

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.

Gen-6 Talk During Chevrolet’s Tuesday Night Dinner – No doubt the hot topic during the Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway this week has been the new Gen-6 race car all NASCAR Sprint Cup teams will be running in 2013. On Tuesday night, Jim Campbell, U.S. vice president of performance vehicles and motorsports for Chevrolet, put together an informative program that broke down the development of the Chevrolet SS, which will make its debut next month in Daytona.

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.

Day two of the Sprint Media Tour ended with a trip to Charlotte Motor Speedway and the Chevrolet dinner at the guest hotel. CMS hosted what was called “A Taste of SMI.” With SMI Chairman Bruton Smith holding court, the media was told of changes being made at each of the corporation’s tracks and how all the changes were to make tracks more fan friendly.