As fans look towards the upcoming season, a highlight on the Camping World Truck Series calendar is a trip to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park on September 1st. In anticipation for that event, CTMP continues making improvements to the facility, and will use the 7th Annual Canadian Motorsports Expo powered by Inside Track Motorsports News to highlight those changes.
Today our 2013 Sprint Cup team previews move on to the Richard Petty Motorsports team, which fields the No.9 and the No.43 Ford Fusions in the Sprint Cup Series.
Everybody always question how success is attained and it happens. One part of that in racing is your preperation. You first need to be prepared if you're going to win races. That is something any racer will tell you. Five-time Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson and his team know the definition of that as they came to Daytona with a plan and stuck to it. As a result, they learned a lot over the course of the three days.
A new week means a new round of 2013 Sprint Cup team previews and today we will be previewing the 2013 efforts of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, which will be fielding the No.1 Chevrolet SS, driven by Jamie McMurray and the No.42 Chevrolet SS, driven by Juan Pablo Montoya.
Brad Keselowski’s defense of his 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship doesn’t begin until the green flag falls on the Daytona 500 in a little over a month. But during winter testing at Daytona he was already warming up.
Up next in our 2013 Sprint Cup team previews is the team of JTG Daugherty Racing, a single car operation that fields the No.47 Toyota Camry in the Sprint Cup Series.
With these being the final five hours of testing for the Daytona 500, some teams were getting their final runs in to finish their lists, while other teams had packed up and gone home. In total, 15 teams hit the track.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is known for being strong on the super speedways and with testing coming to a close in Daytona, everybody knows he will be one to watch in February.
When Matt Kenseth made the switch to Joe Gibbs Racing, there were a lot of questions being asked. Would he be successful? Could he bring Coach Joe Gibbs a championship? So far, he is off to a good start as Kenseth led the Saturday morning test session at Daytona International Speedway. It marks the second session he has led after leading the first session on Thursday.
It hasn’t fazed Matt Kenseth what car or team he’s driving for. The changing of the calendar year, didn’t make him blink either. For Kenseth, he’s still the man atop the scoring tower at Daytona, this time during testing for the upcoming 2013 season.
The three-time Daytona 500 pole winner from Tucson, Arizona, reflected on his Cup Series career driving for Hendrick Motorsports ahead of his decision to retire from full-time racing after the 2027 season.
The 24-year-old Riggs from Bahama, North Carolina, clocked in a fast qualifying lap at 108.292 mph in 22.805 seconds for his third consecutive Truck pole in recent weeks and of 2026 in Brownsburg, Indiana.
Christopher Bell led practice Friday for the Brickyard 400 presented by PPG, turning a top lap of 183.512 mph in the No. 20 Rheem Toyota of Joe Gibbs Racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Justin Grant, who was the defending event winner, came back to capture another victory after starting on the pole position and also collected his 100th career USAC win across all three divisions.