NASCAR Cup Series

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.

The streets of Uptown Charlotte come to life on a daily basis, but on Thursday, Jan. 24 they will roar like never before when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stars from Ford Racing drive their 2013 NASCAR Fusion stock cars through the city streets as part of the annual Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour.

Partnership will encompass all three series in which Chip Ganassi Racing Teams compete - the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the IZOD IndyCar Series and the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series, predominately using the Cessna Brand

NASCAR sponsors come and go, and seldom does one remain in the sport very long unless their programs are providing a return on investment. For the regional plumbing, heating, air conditioning, HVAC, water systems and hardware distributor Northeastern Supply Company, that all-important ROI has always been met.

If life is a game of inches, as Al Pacino’s character once said in the 1999 movie Any Given Sunday, then Brian Vickers has yet to run out of inches. For his margin of error, his movements fast and slow and decisions right or wrong, have yet to permanently derail him.

On Day Two of the Sprint Media Tour, Michael Waltrip Racing was featured. Waltrip’s team was considered the most improved in 2012, having two of his three teams make the Chase and the third very close. This year, there are few changes at MWR.

Richard Childress Racing Discusses 2013 Outlook, Gen-6 Cars and DRIVE4COPD Involvement -- During Monday night’s dinner with Richard Childress Racing in Welcome, NC, during the Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway, COPD Foundation President and Co-Founder John Walsh announced driver Austin Dillon’s involvement with DRIVE4COPD.