NASCAR is no different than the corporate world. Prime parking is a sure sign of success. Tony Stewart has won two races on NASCAR’s shortest, trickiest oval, but when the first-year team owner pulled into Martinsville Speedway on Friday, the place where he saw his team’s hauler parked meant more to him than it probably [...]
Kevin Harvick proved just how strong his organization is Saturday by winning the Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway in his own race car. Harvick led 44 laps in his Kevin Harvick Inc.-owned Chevrolet, his first victory in a car fielded by the race team he built with his wife. “It is very emotional, [...]
After going eight years without winning a pole, Mark Martin earned his second in a row for NASCAR’s Food City 500 on Friday. Martin turned a qualifying lap at Bristol Motor Speedway at 125.773 mph to earn the top starting spot for Sunday’s race. It marks the first time in 20 years that Martin has [...]
If Mark Martin didn’t have bad luck, he probably wouldn’t have any luck at all. He’s learned that the hard way during his 27 years at NASCAR’s top level. There have been four runner-up championship finishes and a myriad of small disasters on a resume that most likely will still go down as one of [...]
Before her first birthday, Addison Hornish had already traveled to 28 different states. She has seen the Grand Canyon and the world’s largest aquarium in Georgia. She has dipped her baby toes in Lake Tahoe as well as the Gulf of Mexico. More important, she has visited nearly every race track on NASCAR’s Sprint Cup [...]
Getting that result, however, was far from easy. Stewart came from two laps down in the 330-lap contest – extended five laps past its scheduled distance due to a green-white-checkered finish – and clawed his way to his 13th top-10 finish in 21 career Sprint Cup starts at Atlanta. “There are a lot of guys [...]
Watkins Glen International thinks its got a heluva good title sponsor for its NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Track officials say the dips and cheeses company Heluva Good! will sponsor the Aug. 9 event. It will be titled the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen. Heluva Good! is headquartered in Sodus, N.Y., about an [...]
In a rare show of accord, the NASCAR drivers testing tires at Darlington Raceway this week agreed that Goodyear is making progress on the most thankless task in racing. All four drivers testing at Darlington — Kevin Harvick, Bobby Labonte, Elliott Sadler and Deny Hamlin — felt the tires Goodyear brought to the track had [...]
The crew member who chased a tire across pit road, forcing NASCAR to throw a race-changing caution at Atlanta Motor Speedway, was suspended four races on Tuesday. Jimmy Watts, the gas man for Marcos Ambrose’s crew, was also placed on probation through the end of the year. Frank Kerr, the crew chief for the No. [...]
Mark Martin’s first pole since 2001 only led to more racing disappointment. The 50-year-old Martin entered the race only 34th in points after frustrations with blown engines the last two weeks. He lost his chance for his first win since 2005 when he blew out his right rear tire on Lap 214 and hit the [...]
