Last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had one of the most disappointing weeks a driver could have as he finished 43rd after making a mistake early in the race. Earnhardt Jr. made a bad judgement call, getting into the front stretch grass before shooting across the track and into the wall.
It was a great day for qualifying as several drivers broke the existing track record with Kevin Harvick taking home the bragging rights for beating them all as he picked up the Coors Light Pole Award for the Bojangles Southern 500.
After posting fast speeds in all three rounds, Kyle Busch went to the top of the leaderboard in Round 3 of Knockout Qualifying to score his 37th pole in 277 NASCAR Nationwide Series races. He posted a lap speed of 173.681 mph. It is his third pole in ten races at Darlington Raceway.
Last year, Matt Kenseth got to cross off one of the biggest races on his "to win" list as he passed Kyle Busch late in the race with 10 laps to go to take home the victory.
Mario Mendoza is a member of the Mexican Baseball League’s Hall of Fame, yet his legacy in the Major Leagues is not as illustrious. In fact, when one measures how competent a batsmen has been throughout a season and, indeed, his MLB career, the Mendoza Line is one players strive not to fall below. It began as a club house joke; hit below .200 and one has fallen below the Mendoza Line. Though he hit .215 over parts of nine Big League campaigns, in five of them Mendoza hit under .200.
1. Jeff Gordon: Gordon took the lead on a late two tire pit stop, but was unable to hold off Joey Logano, with four tires, down the stretch at Texas. Gordon’s runner-up finish, his second of the year, moved him to the top of the points standings.
After the cycle of scheduled green flag pit stops completed, it looked as though Joey Logano could simply cruise to victory without any worries as he had a solid two second lead on teammate Brad Keselowski as the laps ticked down.
One week after tempers flared at Martinsville between Brad Keselowski and Kurt Busch, tensions eased at Texas, where neither driver showed signs of hunting down the other on-track or elsewhere. A wide gap in car performance between the two drivers during Monday’s race allowed the rolling boil of anger to slow to a simmer, even if only temporarily.
TRICON Garage (TRICON) announced today that veteran road racer Adam Andretti has signed on for a multi-race slate with the championship-winning organization
On the heels of another exciting DAYTONA 500, anticipation is revving up for the Straight Talk Wireless 500, set for Sunday, March 8, at Phoenix Raceway.
Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 7 Freeway Insurance Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Spire Motorsports, qualified 15th for the 68th Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.
Joey Logano and No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse team were in contention for the win in the closing laps of Sunday's 68th running of the Daytona 500 and came away with a third-place finish