While many in the racing community are taking time off for the holidays, the new trio at the helm of the California Lightning Sprint Car Series is hard at work preparing for the fast approaching 2011 campaign.
A capacity crowd of 150 young drivers, family members, managers, coaches and assorted guests participated in the Road Racing Drivers Club/FIA Young Drivers Symposium on Dec. 11, at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Trade Show in Orlando, Fla.
Timex Morgan is bringing a gun to the fight this time. That’s how he describes the upcoming indoor Three Quarter Midget (Tqs) Car races in Atlantic City, N.J., and Providence, R.I.
ON FIRST TEST WITH PASTRANA-WALTRIP RACING AT NEW SMYRNA SPEEDWAY (IN A K&N PRO EAST SERIES CAR): “The first two days went absolutely great. I had a lot of time in different cars and racing different things, but I just didn’t know where the baseline was going to be, so I’ve been very happy."
Following the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Banquet in Las Vegas, where Greg Biffle was honored for finishing sixth in the point standings, he traveled home to Vancouver, Wash. to honor a few of the local dirt track racers.
The 2021 Cup Series champion from Elk Grove, California, led a race-high 277 of 300-scheduled laps en route to the first Xfinity victory for himself and Hendrick Motorsports at the Last Great Colosseum.
Brandon Jones followed his Darlington win with a fifth-place run to lead Toyota in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday evening.
The three-time Daytona 500 pole winner from Tucson, Arizona, posted a pole-winning lap at 128.675 mph in 14.912 seconds, which was enough to claim his second Cup Series pole position of the 2025 season and his second in a row at Thunder Valley.
