Joey Logano wanted a top-five. The 18-year-old rookie had to settle for sixth. “It ain’t much on my book,” he said. Don’t worry, kid. There’s plenty of time to drive your way into Victory Lane. The next NASCAR star has arrived and Logano delivered in his national-level debut with the kind of finish that showed [...]
Three members of Brad Keselowski’s team, including crew chief Tony Eury Sr., were penalized Wednesday for participating in a post-race altercation with Denny Hamlin’s crew on pit road at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Crew members from both teams scuffled after late race contact between the two drivers in Saturday night’s Nationwide Series event. Keselowski ran into [...]
Joe Gibbs Racing’s hold on the Nationwide Series finally has been snapped — by one of its drivers. JGR superstar Kyle Busch drove a Toyota fielded by Braun Racing to victory Saturday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, snapping a six-race winning streak for Gibbs’ cars in the Nationwide Series. But in stretching a tank of [...]
All it took was his first Darlington Raceway victory to bring out Tony Stewart’s softer side. Only two months ago, Stewart angrily blasted Goodyear after the Atlanta race, saying the company had given him “the most pathetic racing tire I’ve ever been on in my professional career.” But it was a joyful, smiling Stewart who [...]
Local favorite Denny Hamlin used a late pit stop for tires to foil the strategy of fellow NASCAR stars Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards, blowing by them to win the Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway on Friday night. Harvick and Edwards dominated the race all night, but when the sixth caution flew with [...]
Tony Stewart held off Dale Earnhardt Jr. last-lap charge to win the Nationwide Series race Saturday for his first career victory at Talladega Superspeedway. “This is not like winning a regular Nationwide race,” he said. “To me this is the biggest one I’ve had. To finally win at Talladega, it’s more than I can put [...]
Amid all the talk of his future, Tony Stewart came to Talladega Superspeedway and went back to work, winning the pole for Saturday’s Aaron’s 312 Nationwide Series race. Stewart’s lap of 185.308 mph earned him his second pole of the Nationwide Series season. The other came in the season-opening race at Daytona, which he won. [...]
Different tracks. Different vehicles. The results are still the same for Kyle Busch. Busch won his third consecutive race on NASCAR’s Nationwide Series — and his first career road-race win — when he held off Marcos Ambrose by less than a second Sunday in the Corona Mexico 200. “It’s fun to be able to win [...]
For Boris Said, this week’s NASCAR Nationwide Series event in Mexico City is more than just his first chance to race a stock car since February. The free spirit from Southern California loves the sprawling city south of the border. “I’ve enjoyed traveling the world to race cars, but I also have fun taking in [...]
Kyle Busch beat Carl Edwards out of the pits on their final stop, then held off the defending NASCAR Nationwide Series champion in overtime for his second straight victory Friday night at Phoenix International Raceway. A series of late-race caution flags on the mile oval hampered Edwards, who appeared to have a faster car at [...]
