Jimmie JohnsonSunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 some drivers flourished while others faltered.
The unique shape of Phoenix International Raceway is always a challenge. When weird weekend weather is added to the mix it makes for an even more interesting race track.
Some drivers handled the changing track conditions better than others and [...]
Jimmie Johnson will go for the Dover sweep from the pole. Johnson turned a lap of 157.356 m.p.h. on Friday at Delaware’s Dover International Speedway where he led a career-high 298 laps in his victory in May.
The top four qualifying spots for Sunday’s race all went to Chase for the Championship drivers. Juan Pablo Montoya [...]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. will start on the pole for the Degree V12 300 Nationwide Series after topping the charts in qualifying at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Earnhardt Jr. lapped the 1.54-mile track at 174.121 m.p.h. (31.840 seconds) for his 10th career Nationwide pole, but his first since August 2004 at Bristol.
He also became the 16th different pole [...]
The Pennsylvania 500 separated the Chasers from the boys.
With time running out to squeeze in one of just 12 positions, Denny Hamlin, Juan Pablo Montoya and Kasey Kahne showed they didn’t want to be left behind when the Sprint Cup Series postseason begins five races from now.
Hamlin won Monday, Montoya and Kahne finished second and [...]
Jimmie Johnson cashed in on a $224,000 speeding ticket, grabbing an improbable third Nascar Sprint Cup victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when a penalty to Juan Pablo Montoya blew the race wide open.
In a performance that mirrored his dominating Indianapolis 500 victory nine years ago, Montoya was in cruise control in the Allstate 400 at [...]
INDIANAPOLIS – Jeff Gordon said all one needed to know about tire concern for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday.
“The tires are a non-issue and we need to move on to a whole other subject,” Gordon, a four-time Brickyard winner said. “If anybody has an issue with tires it’s not because [...]
JOLIET, Ill. – Mark Martin had the dominant car in Saturday night’s LifeLock.com 400, but he warned his crew not to become overly optimistic in the closing laps.
And even after scoring his fourth win of the season and his first victory at Chicagoland Speedway, the veteran still had to ask over the radio: “Tell me [...]
If Danica Patrick chooses to make the jump to NASCAR, she’s going to have her work cut out for her, according to another former open-wheel star who made a similar move.
“Danica, I think she’s got the talent and everything, but I don’t think she knows what she’s getting into,” said Juan Montoya, the former Indianapolis [...]
SONOMA, Calif. — Richard Petty Motorsports has made news this season for all the wrong reasons.
Caught in the financial crunch of Chrysler’s bankruptcy, the team had a recent round of layoffs and companywide salary reductions.
Star driver Kasey Kahne has been openly unhappy with RPM’s slow development of an improved Dodge motor, and the organization can’t [...]
BROOKLYN, Mich. — When he announced his Sprint Cup free agency two years ago, Dale Earnhardt Jr. made clear there was only one condition attached to his next employer.
That the team would hand him the keys to a Chevrolet.
The automobile manufacturer with the bowtie logo won’t be handing as much to Earnhardt’s Nationwide Series team, [...]
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