Last week, Ginn racing – a well-financed start-up in the Nextel Cup Series which almost won the Daytona 500 with Mark Martin at the wheel earlier this year– merged with DEI, Dale Earnhardt, Incorporated. Having lost Dale Earnhardt, Jr. to Hendrick Racing, DEI moved quickly to find additional capital. In so doing, it emulated Richard Childress Racing, which quietly brought outside investors into team several years ago, and Jack Roush, whose team became Roush-Fenway Racing after he brought (...)
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It’s not won in Cup competition, but Toyota got a win in the next best thing, the Busch Series on Saturday, with Jason Leffler outracing Greg Biffle to the checkered flag in the Kroger 200 at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis. David Reutimann, also in a Toyota, finished third.
In Cup competition, Toyota has had a difficult year, particularly with the Michael Waltrip-owned team for which Reutimann drives. Toyota drivers, including past Daytona 500 winner Waltrip and (...)
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Chevrolet’s contracts with its Nextel – to be Sprint – Cup teams expire at the end of the season, so it is looking to negotiate new contracts now.
As the NASCAR series approaches the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard this Sunday, the second richest (to the Daytona 500) race on the schedule, speculation is rampant about who is staying and about who is going.
Gibbs is prominent in that speculation.
Toyota is reportedly wooing Joe Gibbs more than even the Washington (...)
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Yes.
To date, NASCAR has not announced a new sponsor for the Busch Series. Annheuser-Busch, which has been the series sponsor for over a decade, announced earlier this year that it would not renew its sponsorship contract.
This means NASCAR needs a new sponsor.
But to get a new sponsor, it is likely that NASCAR must first address the series’ biggest issue: the so-called “Buschwackers.” These are the NASCAR Cup teams that run only select Busch series races, those (...)
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The husband of the president of International Speedway Corp., the company that owns, among others, the Daytona International Speedway, was killed in the crash of a twin engine private plane he was piloting at about 8:30 a.m. today.
Dr. Bruce Kennedy, husband of Lesa France Kennedy, has been confirmed dead by the Seminole County, Florida Sheriff’s Department. According to the Sheriff’s department, four others also died from the crash: another passenger in the plane and three people on the (...)
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