As the Daytona 500 closed into the final 25 laps, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had put himself in position to win the sport's greatest race and take home the biggest victory of them all.
After a rain delayed start, Dale Earnhardt Jr. earned a hard fought victory in a thrilling Daytona 500 under the lights at Daytona International Speedway. The joy on his face was unmistakable as he took a victory lap around the track to celebrate with thousands of his fans.
Who is Landon Cassill? That's a good question. He might be the most anonymous driver in the Cup series right now. I could probably count on one hand how often he was mentioned yesterday on FOX.
Emotions ran high at the end of the 56th Annual Daytona 500 as Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his first victory in the Great American race since 2004. It had been a long ten years since he last won in 2004. The years were filled with plenty of close finishes including three runner-ups, but Earnhardt Jr. could never close the deal.
NASCAR team owners and fans both expressed the fact that they did not tandem drafting at Daytona so a solution was drawn up. NASCAR outlawed the act, saying that if a driver locked bumpers with another, they would be brought to pit road to serve a pass-through penalty.
When it came to IndyCar Media Day earlier this month, the question that Scott Dixon got asked was a simple - could he win his fourth IndyCar title this season? His answer was simple - "Beat everybody else."
Heading into the year, Chip Ganassi has faced a lot of criticism, merely surrounding moving up Kyle Larson to the Sprint Cup Series this year. While some may expect success immediately, Ganassi realizes that there is a learning curve and says it'll take one step at a time and was pleased with Larson's Budweiser Duel performance.
By a narrow margin, with a push from Trevor Bayne, Regan Smith edged Brad Keselowski by 0.013 seconds to win the season-opening Drive4COPD 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
Jeff Gordon's luxurious career began racing quarter midgets in Rio Linda, California at five-years-old, now at 42-years-old he's became one of the most successful NASCAR competitors in history. However, his impressive 22-year NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career is nearing its conclusion.
Identical brothers Cash and Roman Felber, 16, became the first twins to share a podium in USA Ligier Junior F4 before moving from Ohio to Britain in pursuit of the same Formula 1 dream
Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway is the penultimate race on the Cup Series schedule, and it’s where drivers and crews can see the finish-line tape stretched across the end of their season-long run.
Austin Cindric’s afternoon at Talladega Superspeedway came to a premature end Sunday after a late-race, multi-car incident relegated the No. 2 Menards/Knauf Ford Mustang Dark Horse to a 27th-place finish in the YellaWood 500.
