Jeff Gordon, four-time NASCAR champion driver of the No. 24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet, not only picked up the Heisman Humanitarian Honor this evening but also the praise of one of his primary sponsors, the AARP Foundation.
The 2012 NSCS season was a lesson for everyone in the NASCAR world that anything can and will happen. Perhaps we all should have seen it coming, considering how crazy the year started. And by that, meaning just the first race of the year.
Perfecting what you do is always difficult. It takes time, patience and pure talent to perfect something. Mike Massaro is one person who has perfected sports journalism coverage, especially in the sport we all enjoy, NASCAR.
Whenever I’m covering a NASCAR race or another other event, I often record countless driver interviews, some of them find their way into articles and some are set aside.
The driver of the No. 15 5-Hour Energy Toyota couldn’t be happier, finishing second in the Chase standings, just 39 points behind champion Brad Keselowski and a mere one point ahead of third place finisher and five time champ Jimmie Johnson.
Only in video games do the entire field wreck and the driver running almost last win the race. But to open the 2012 season that’s exactly what happened when the leaders all wrecked coming off turn four and Buescher, who was running 11th, came through for the win.
As Kasey Kahne completed his first full season with Hendrick Motorsports, finishing fourth in the Chase standings, the 32 year old driver had just one thing on his mind.
Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford for Roush Fenway Racing, was not just relieved when his NASCAR year-end banquet speech as the fifth place finishing driver was over. He was also “very proud of what we did this year.”
He’s the new man atop NASCAR’s impressive mountain and he’s determined to let everyone know he’ll be a new kind of champion. A beer guzzling and loud one when he wants to be and by the way, the now infamous large beer glass from the Homestead celebration is up for auction for charity.
Have you found yourself waking up on Sunday morning and thinking Race Day? Then you realized it is the off-season and race day won’t come again for two months. It is a common issue across the world, especially with NASCAR fans.
The 24-year-old Smith from Talking Rock, Georgia, outdueled teammate Layne Riggs, Ben Rhodes and the field during a 12-lap shootout to win in his penultimate Truck start with Front Row Motorsports in Ridgeway, Virginia.
Chandler Smith led a Ford sweep of the top four positions as he won tonight’s race at Martinsville Speedway. Ben Rhodes was second, Layne Riggs third and Ty Majeski fourth.
Gio Ruggiero (eighth) and William Sawalich (ninth) both recorded top 10 finishes for TRICON Garage to lead Toyota in Friday night’s NASCAR Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway.
The 2021 CARS Super Late Model Tour champion from Mooresville, North Carolina, clocked in a pole-winning lap at 95.371 mph in 19.855 seconds for his third O'Reilly career pole in Ridgeway, Virginia.
The 2026 ARCA Menards Series East champion from Kannapolis, North Carolina, became the youngest pole winner in Truck Series' history at age 16 years, two months and 27 days old.