Helio Castroneves broke an track record that had stood since 2006 on Saturday and qualified for the pole at the IndyCar Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.Castroneves posted a time of 1 minute, 6.7442 seconds on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn street course for his 42nd career IndyCar pole. The previous...
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By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire ServiceDistributed by The Sports XchangeBRISTOL, Tenn. -- Drivers at Bristol Motor Speedway are starting to like it on the bottom.Ever since the grinding of the concrete racing surface in 2012, the top lane has been the fastest way around the .533-mile short track, but...
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By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire ServiceDistributed by The Sports Xchange BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Joey Logano was enjoying such a perfect day at Bristol Motor Speedway that the driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford kept expecting something to go wrong.It never did.Logano led all 300 laps of Saturday's Drive...
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By Reid SpencerNASCAR Wire ServiceDistributed by The Sports Xchange BRISTOL, Tenn. -- If you're Richard Childress and you're looking for an interim crew chief, you'd be hard pressed to find a more experienced candidate than Todd Parrott.Fortunately for Childress, Parrott already is part of the RCR...
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By Reid SpencerNASCAR Wire ServiceDistributed by The Sports Xchange BRISTOL, Tenn. -- If history repeats itself on Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, Matt Kenseth won't have a problem with it.The last time Kenseth won a pole at...
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One of the most storied organizations in auto racing, Roush Fenway Racing boasts two championships and 135 wins in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.Recently, RFR has hit some rough roads. The Concord, North Carolina-based team has...
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Staff ReportNASCAR Wire ServiceDistributed by The Sports Xchange While upholding a P-5 level penalty to one of the top teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the National Motorsports Appeals Panel opted to amend portions of the...
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IndyCar officials penalized driver Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport for avoidable contact in the Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana race.Hunter-Reay was cited Wednesday for violating Rule 9.3.3 and was penalized three points in...
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LONG BEACH, Calif. -- With the third event of the season, IndyCar hopes to finally make a good first impression for the 2015 season.Struggles abound so far. There was the cancellation of the March 8 race in Brasilia, Brazil, the...
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SPRINT CUP SERIES: Food City 500 in Support of Steve Byrnes, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.TV: Sunday, April 19, 12:30 pm ET on FOX.THEN AND NOW: Carl Edwards won last year’s race under caution, followed closely by...
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By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire ServiceDistributed by The Sports XchangeA split second before his No. 54 Toyota slammed nose-first into a concrete wall inside Turn 1 at Daytona International Speedway, Kyle Busch recalls saying to...
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When Dale Earnhardt Sr. edged Cale Yarborough to win his first Winston Cup championship in 1980, it was not without some excitement on the pit road in the season finale at the Ontario Motor Speedway.Under intense championship...
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