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Throughout the 10-race Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, www.texasmotorspeedway.com will be providing you with the special opportunity to watch the Chase driver press conferences as well as the post-qualifying and post-race press conferences LIVE from those respective speedways. Now you not only can watch...
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By Tim Tuttle and Bill Marx Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Released from Phoenix Racing on Aug. 2, Mike Bliss has managed to keep his Nationwide Series season going without interruption, but three of the five races have been start-and-parks. “It’s not anything I’m proud to say,”...
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By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (July 28, 2009) In a Tuesday morning meeting between NASCAR and Nationwide Series team owners, plans for the 2010 rollout of the new Nationwide Series racecar coalesced around a schedule that likely will include 5-6 races in 2010 before the cars go full...
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SceneDaily.com For Kyle Busch, it’s all about focus. And that, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver says, has been one of the biggest ingredients to his success in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series. “You've got to keep your mind focused,” he said during a national teleconference with reporters...
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SceneDaily.com You would expect to see NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards at the head of the Nationwide Series points standings, but you might be a little surprised by the guy in third. Heck, even Jason Leffler and his car owner, Todd Braun, are a little surprised. But heading into...
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TMS To Offer New “Frontstretch 4-Pack” For Only $199 “Backstretch Buster” Seating Returns For Dickies 500 FORT WORTH, Texas – Tickets for the Dickies 500 NASCAR triple-header weekend set for November 5-8 at Texas Motor Speedway are on sale today with the Sprint Cup Series...
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SceneDaily.com Joey Logano’s victory in Saturday’s Nashville 300 may have come in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and not the Sprint Cup Series, but it still provided a boost for the Joe Gibbs driver who has been under intense scrutiny this year. The cynics have said he’s too young, too...
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O'Reilly 300 Notes Tricky winds Drivers had to deal with 40-mph wind gusts during the two practice sessions Thursday afternoon before qualifying. It made it difficult on the handling and pre-qualifying setup. Tony Stewart said he had never dealt with winds like that before in a stock car. The gusts...
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Paul Menard turned the fastest lap speed (184.143 mph) during the second Nationwide Series practice session Thursday afternoon. David Reutimann, Matt Kenseth, David Ragan and David Green were the next top speeds in line behind Menard. Rookie Joey Logano was 6th fastest. Also, Ragan continued his top...
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Car Driver Team Name Owner Crew Chief 1 *0 J C Stout 1-800-527-1801 Chevrolet Johnny Davis Patrick Magee 2 *01 Danny O'Quinn Jr. Cash-4-Gold Chevrolet Lori Morgan Randy Hood 3 1 Mike Bliss Miccosukee Indian Gaming & Resort James Finch Marc Reno 4 *02 Andy Ponstein Corriestottracing.com Chevrolet...
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The last time JTG Daugherty Racing’s Michael McDowell visited Texas Motor Speedway the 24-year-old driver was plucked from his mangled car as he was involved in a spectacular crash during NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying for the Samsung 500 last April. Driving in the No. 00 for Michael Waltrip...
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SceneDaily.com When Kevin Harvick and his wife, DeLana, started Kevin Harvick Inc., it was a hobby. That hobby turned into a serious competitive effort – do the Harvicks really know how to do it any other way? – and they reached another milestone last week at Bristol Motor Speedway. The first...
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SceneDaily.com The struggling U.S. economy has taken its toll on a lot of NASCAR teams, but R3 Motorsports is bucking the trend. The team ran part time in the Nationwide Series last year, but it signed two new sponsors for 2009 and is running its No. 23 Chevrolet in all 35 series races this year for...
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In 12 years of NASCAR racing at Texas Motor Speedway, no driver has ever won two events in the same weekend. History could be made in the upcoming Samsung 500 weekend as a dozen drivers are scheduled to compete in both the O’Reilly 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race and Samsung 500 NASCAR Sprint...
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Kyle Busch, winner of Sunday’s Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, holds four records at Texas Motor Speedway. In the 2008 O’Reilly 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race, he set the record for the winner’s furthest starting position – 31st – and also became the youngest...