It started as a squabble with the local zoning board, but the frustrated desire of Bruton Smith, owner of Lowe’s Motor Speedway, to add a drag strip to the racing complex has now escalated into a plan to construct a new speedway elsewhere.
Though Lowe’s, which was formerly known as Charlotte Motor Speedway is often thought of as being in that city, it’s actually located in Concord, North Carolina, a smaller suburb (much like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is not in (...)
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No surprise, but Chevrolet has resigned Dale Earnhardt, Inc. as a Chevy Team for the Nextel/Sprint Cup Series. The deal extends at least through the 2008 season.
"Chevrolet enjoyed a successful relationship, including six NASCAR Cup championships, with the legendary Dale Earnhardt behind the wheel of his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, and we’re proud of our longstanding relationship with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. which extends all the way back to when Dale and Teresa Earnhardt (...)
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Jeremy Mayfield, the NASCAR driver who left the Dodge racing organization of Evernham Racing and ended up with a
Toyota ride that has gone nowhere, has a new car: the no. 66
Chevrolet. He will take over the Nextel Cup driving duties from Jeff Green, starting with this week-end’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, driving for the Haas/CNC Racing team. Mayfield will then continue with a Haas/CNC ride in 2008.
He will be joining Scott Riggs, who recently signed to drive for the (..
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Jimmie Johnson won the race held at Martinsville Speedway, the track where Gordon has had more success than most anyone, allowing him to approach the leader, and giving him hope to win the title.
Johnson made the pass he didn’t allow Gordon to make in the spring, sneaking inside his Hendrick Motorsports teammate with 44 laps to go Sunday and holding on for his series-high seventh victory of the year and the 30th of his career.
Newman challenged Gordon for second on Lap 492, getting (...)
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Five races and the 2007 Nextel Cup Series is over. Four drivers are competing for the first place in the Drivers Championship. From now one they will treat every race like the last one of the championship. They are willing to fight until the last lap, until the last drop of fuel, and their team mates can represent an important advantage.
The four drivers that are fighting for the title are: Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer and Tony Stewart. Jeff Gordon Driver Details
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Jeff Gordon won Saturday night’s race held at Lowe’s Motor Speedway after an exciting race with fuel problems for Gordon that made him think he would not finish the race.
Despite all his concerns, Gordon made it to the finish line for his sixth win of the season, and staked his claim on the Nextel Cup title. After that incredible day for Gordon’s team, Hendrick Motorsports, he declared: "We needed to get to the finish. We had such a hard time getting to the finish, whether we (...)
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NASCAR fans are known for infectious enthusiasm.
But, are they actually contagious?
Seems the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives thinks so.
While Ryan Newman was winning the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, a controversy was brewing in Washington over the advice given to staff members of the Homeland Security Committee before they made visits to the NASCAR race this week and to last (...)
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Team Red Bull made its debut in 2006 by purchasing Roger Penske’s old shop location in Mooresville, North Carolina. The Red Bull team bought several Dodge Chargers from Bill Davis Racing but with Bill Elliott and A.J. Allmendinger as the official driver they failed to qualify in all three attempts at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway. In the 2007 season the team failed to qualify for the 2007 Daytona. Allmendinger crashed with Robby Gordon on lap 24 (...)
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Confirmng the rumors, Chip Ganassi announced at a press conference on Wednesday Morning that Dario Franchitti has been released from his Andretti Green Racing contract and will be driving for Ganassi in NASCAR. Franchitti gets his start immediately, with an entry in the ARCA race being run at Talladega this coming week-end.
Franchitti, who won the Indianapolis 500 this past May and was also the 2007 IRL champion, will replace David Stremme on the NASCAR Nextel Cup team, where he (...)
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Roush Fenway Racing is one of Nascar’s largest premier racing teams that currently runs teams in the Nextel Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck series. The team was founded in 1988 by Jack Roush and co-owner John Henry but the true success came in 2003 when driver Matt Kenseth won the Nextel Cup Championships. In 2004 Kurt Busch repeated the performance and along with the victory from the 2007 Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Speedway Roush Fenway Racing had compiled 100 victories in the (...)
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