NASCAR Truck Series

As part of its ongoing efforts to make it easier for fans to see races, Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III announced that beginning with Budweiser Speedweeks 2013, race fans can now select Bill Me Later, a PayPal service, as a payment option for ordering tickets online.

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. The pressure is on to find that perfect gift for that special someone in your life. As you search for that gift, remember this: flowers wilt and chocolates quickly disappear. Memories last forever, though, and the excitement of a race day at Martinsville Speedway creates memories you and your special someone can share long after other gifts are forgotten.

Martinsville Speedway’s ticket office will be open on weekends beginning Saturday, Feb. 23, giving fans who work all week the opportunity to drop by the track and pick out the seats they would like for the Virginia 500 on April 7.

Just weeks after SMI chairman Bruton Smith called start and park teams a "disgrace to the sport", NASCAR president Mike Helton has released news of a change in the way that purses would be paid out to competitors in positions 39 through 43 of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.

In the sport of NASCAR, as in many professional sports, it is certainly the sponsors that make it all possible.

Technology has become synonymous with racing. We see it in the changes NASCAR has made in the cars over the years, in the tech process, communications, even the “world’s biggest television” that Bruton Smith installed on the backstretch at Charlotte Motor Speedway just a couple of seasons ago. Why wouldn’t we expect to see it in track drying process?

The world of racing that Clay Campbell and Karen Parker work in is one of high speed, cutting-edge technology with a fair amount of excitement. But for two days this week two Martinsville Speedway officials were immersed in a much faster, much more high-tech world.

When the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) makes its return to Rockingham Speedway for the Carolina 200 presented by Cheerwine in April, the field for the second event at the venerable one-mile track will not be set until morning of the race.

One of the most recognizable of Bristol Motor Speedway’s guest initiative programs takes shape for 2013 with at least three new partners. The Fan-Friendly Lodging Program identifies properties with reduced rates and nightly minimums to help ease the cost of attending events at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is just one of the more than half-dozen such programs established at BMS in the last three years aimed at adding value to the pilgrimage made by guests to the East Tennessee mountains.

For the third straight spring, Dover International Speedway will offer race fans the unique, free opportunity to roam the frontstretch of the Monster Mile with the return of the 5-hour ENERGY Open Track Session.