NASCAR Cup Series

More than 50 years after Glen Wood and his 1958 Ford Fairlane No. 21 tried out the pavement on the then-new Daytona International Speedway, the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion with Trevor Bayne behind the wheel will test the brand new asphalt on the historic track.

Sitting at my desk admiring the most recent construction of another cobweb, I decided it was time to do some digging through the Speedway Media mailbag.

Like most tracks the Sprint Cup Series visits, his statistics at the 1.5-mile track in Forth Worth, TX are worth noting. He’s led laps, finished well and has even won before.

Even though Johnson walked away the big winner for the fifth straight year, the biggest question to come out of the HMS camp during the season was the poor showing by NASCAR’s most popular driver again.

After being eatten up through a merger with Richard Petty Motorsports and not even spoken about, Robert Yates Racing is back in the motorsports headlines.

Today, less than four months since energy production began at Pocono Raceway’s solar farm, the total amount of electricity produced by the 25 acre facility reached the 1,000,000 kilowatt hour (kWh) mark.

Performance Motorsports Incorporated (PMI) and Roush Yates announced today a newly formed technical alliance that will focus on product development in national and international markets.

After seven seasons of serving as race No. 2 in the “Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup,” Dover International Speedway will move to race No. 3 in the 10-race championship playoff format in 2011.

It has been ‘The Year of the Boss.’ This past year has seen the return of the Mustang BOSS 302R to track at Daytona and the unveiling of the 2012 BOSS 302 production Mustang.

Rick Hendrick started out with the simple life working on the family farm in Virginia, but he was always interested in cars and speed.