A spate of late caution periods played into Greg Biffle’s hands Friday night, as the driver of the No. 16 Ford held off Jason Leffler to win the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 Nationwide Series race at Phoenix International Raceway, team owner Jack Roush’s 100th victory in the series. Biffle beat Leffler to the stripe by .338 [...]
Mark Martin puts in long hours in the gym and thinks the last time he ate fast food was a Burger King run some 15 years ago. He lives his life like a man half of his age. And drives like it, too. The 50-year-old Martin became the third-oldest winner in NASCAR history Saturday night, [...]
Kyle Busch made it a Texas trio in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Busch won his third consecutive Nationwide race in Texas with another dominating performance Saturday, leading a race-record 178 of 200 laps to win the O’Reilly 300 even though he insisted it wasn’t as easy as it looked. “I was uncomfortable because of the [...]
Jeff Gordon had gone so long without winning a race, that he picked up a new trick or two watching other drivers celebrate. No, not a backflip a la Carl Edwards. After the obligatory burnout on the frontstretch for his first victory ever at Texas, one that ended his career-high 47-race winless drought in the [...]
Matt Kenseth won the first two races of the season, but it’s been downhill ever since for the former champion, and Sunday’s race only added to his decline. Kenseth started 10th but dropped to 21st before the Goody’s 500 was 10 laps old. During pit stops after 42 laps, Kenseth’s team was cited by NASCAR [...]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been soundly outshone by Kyle Busch, the driver he replaced at Hendrick Motorsports, but he hopes to turn the corner soon. To that end, Earnhardt and much of the brainpower at Hendrick Motorsports held a meeting recently to air their views and try to stumble on something that would bring improvement. [...]
Tony Stewart scored Stewart-Haas Racing’s first top-10 finish in the season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway with a solid eighth-place effort. It took just five more races for the driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS to score the team’s first top-three result, as Stewart brought home a strong [...]
Jimmie Johnson nudged Denny Hamlin aside in the third and fourth turns with 15 laps to go and gave team owner Rick Hendrick a perfect place to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his first victory in NASCAR’s premier series: Victory Lane. Johnson, dubbed “Mr. Martinsville” by Jeff Gordon, lived up to his moniker, winning for [...]
Rick Hendrick was a car owner with a fading dream when he went to church with his wife 25 years ago as his team prepared to race at Martinsville Speedway. When he emerged, life as he knew it would never be the same. Geoff Bodine, the driver who ached for an opportunity to race, and [...]
Kyle Busch was furious when his pit crew cost him a win at Bristol Motor Speedway, where he angrily ditched his car on the race track and headed to his motorhome on foot. A day later, he drove it to Victory Lane. Busch bounced back from one of his many Bristol heartbreaks with a dominating [...]
