NASCAR Cup Series

Carl Edwards still faces questions about his 2012 Sprint Cup season, but there’s only one way he answers about how it felt. “Pretty damn disappointing,”...

Roush Fenway Racing, (RFR), will open the 2013 season with three teams featuring a driver that many think is ripe for winning his first championship, a second driver that wants to put 2012 behind him and get back to the championship trail and a third driver who has already become an extremely high profile Rookie of the Year candidate.

In the high powered world of NASCAR racing one thing is certain, unpredictability; for 2013 SS Green Light Racing will be reunited with veteran racer David Starr as he returns to the seat of the No. 81 Toyota for the Bobby Dotter and Ken Smith-owned Camping World Truck Series team.

As the excitement builds in the days leading up to the ‘Great American Race’ at Daytona International Speedway, Chevrolet is anxiously awaiting the beginning of a new era for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It’s the start of a new tradition. It’s a new season with new livery.

The season’s first practice session saw the season’s first multicar accident, with five cars involved in an accident that took place only nine minutes into the season’s first practice. The result sends Roush Fenway’s Carl Edwards and the No. 99 Fastenal team to a backup car for tomorrow night’s Sprint Unlimited all-star race.

Practice is complete and in the end, Toyota found their way to the top just like in testing as it was Denny Hamlin topping the charts. The driver of the No. 11 FedEx Camry topped the charts with a speed of 196.053 mph.

One the eve of the Spring Unlimited, nee the Busch Clash and Budweiser Shootout, the media met with the stars of NASCAR. Never mind that only three weeks ago, they spent a whole week interviewing and questioning most of these same stars, but there was a new subject that became almost an obsession.

The first practice for the Sprint Unlimited is in the books and Kevin Harvick topped the speed chart while Matt Kenseth triggered a four-car wreck.

Carl Edwards was part of a multi-car incident in the opening practice for Saturday nights Sprint Unlimited just nine minutes into the opening session. Edwards spoke about the damage to his race car.

Trevor Bayne, David Ragan and David Gilliland were part of NASCR Media Day festivities yesterday. The trio have had recent success at Daytona, and spoke about that among many other topics.