Archive for November, 2011

A Return To Rockingham, Two Trips To Iowa Short Track Highlight 18th Season DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 21, 2011) – NASCAR announced today the 2012 schedule for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, highlighted by the sport’s return to historic Rockingham Speedway for the first time since 2004 and a number of familiar venues known for the typically intense battles among the tough trucks. “The 2012 schedule has a great mix of tracks that will continue to deliver great racing for our fans,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR senior vice president of racing operations. “We’re excited to bring the NASCAR Camping World [...]

  Sunday afternoon, crew chief Darian Grubb climbed on the pit box to make some of the most daring, strategy calls to help Tony Stewart win his third NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. But did you know on Monday, he would be out of a job? Gibbs was told before the race at Charlotte Motor Speedway by Stewart-Haas Racing that he would not be returning in 2012, even though the team would be adding a third car to the team. At the early part of the year, I could have seen why he would be let go. Stewart limped into the [...]

Tony Stewart capped off one of the greatest championship runs in modern NASCAR history, as he won last night’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. With the win, Stewart and Carl Edwards tied in points.  However, Stewart won the Cup based off of the tie-breaker for most wins in 2011.   The battle between Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart came down to the final lap.  In the end, Stewart drove alot better than Carl Edwards, and thats what counted in the end. Tony Stewart had issues early on in the race.  After Kurt Busch blew his transmission on Lap 3, somehow [...]

It all comes down to one final race. Today is the day we’ll find out who will win the NASCAR Sprint Cup. We’ve seen all the mind-games being played over the past 3-weeks to a month, and now its time to put up or shut up. 3 points is all that settles Tony Stewart from points leader Carl Edwards. So far this weekend, Carl Edwards has thrown the first punch in this final championship battle. Edwards won the pole for today’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and has dominated Stewart in the two practices this weekend. However, that doesn’t mean [...]

On Saturday afternoon, when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. climbed into his No. 6 Blackwell Angus Beef Ford Fusion for the 200 lap Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, he had one number in his head. He knew he must finish 37th or better for the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series championship to be his. Little did he knew he’d only have to wait 30 laps. Long before the checkered flag would drop on Saturday night at the season finale, Stenhouse Jr had already clinched after six cars officially dropped out of the rae. The team had some radio communications issues early. Apparently, someone [...]

  NASCAR team owner Richard Childres has said all along he has no plans to bring the stylized No. 3 Dale Earnhardt made famous back to Sprint Cup racing, but on Saturday Dale Earnhardt, Jr said he has no problems with Austin Dillon using the number if Childress changes his mind. Earnhardt, Jr. went on to say that he doesn’t believe numbers are tied to drivers as much as he believes in the legacy of the numbers as a whole. “The number is more of a bank that you just deposit history into,” Earnhardt Jr. said Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “It doesn’t [...]

Carl Edwards has already had a great weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. On Saturday, he topped the speed chart in the Happy Hour practice session and a couple of hours after the session he qualified his No. 99 Aflac Racing Ford on the pole for Sunday’s Ford 400. Edwards ran a lap of 30.775, 175.467 miles per hour.  This is Carl’s third pole of the 2011 season and his second at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He now joins Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, and Kasey Kahne at the top of the all-time pole list at the track. Championship contender, Tony Stewart, qualified 15th. Coverage [...]

  Been a wild weekend already for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver, Brad Keselowski. As we have reported all weekend, he was secretly fined by NASCAR for comments mad about the Electronic Fuel Injection system during a Fan Q&A at the NASCAR Hall of Fame last week. Today, Keselowski pushed all those emotions aside and qualified his No. 22 NASCAR Nationwide Series Dodge on the pole for Saturday afternoon’s Ford 300 from Homestead-Miami Speedway.  His speed was a 167.660 miles per hour. This is his fourth pole of the season and his first at the track. Elliott Sadler, who is [...]

Richard Childress Racing driver, Austin Dillon played it safe and captured his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship. At 21 years, 6 months, and 22 days Dillon becomes the youngest champion in the series.  Dillon finished 10th at Homestead-Miami Speedway. ThorSports Racing driver, Johnny Sauter was hoping to crash Dillon’s party and ended up having to hold off a furious challenge from Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick until rain came with 17 laps to go. Sauter was shortly called the winner after NASCAR threw out the red flag and brought the trucks onto pit road. This was Sauter’s second [...]

Rain was the winner on Friday as it forced NASCAR to postpone the two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practices at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  NASCAR will try to get in nearly all of the 2 hour and 45 minute practice it had scheduled on Friday for Saturday morning from 9:30-11am EST and 11:30am-12:30pm EST. The remainder of Saturday’s schedule, which includes NASCAR Nationwide Series qualifying at 1:05pm, Cup qualifying at 2:40 pm and the Nationwide race at 4:30pm, will remain the same. Saturday’s forecast from the National Weather Service includes a 20 percent chance of rain with a high of 80 degrees.