As part of its throwback weekend, celebrating the 1985-89 era of the sport, Darlington Raceway will be honoring Dale Earnhardt Sr. and the 30th anniversary of his 1987 Bojangles’ Southern 500 victory.
Stenhouse Jr. has four Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) starts at Sonoma Raceway with an average starting position of 32.0 and average finishing position of 26.0. Stenhouse has completed 439 of 440(99.8%) laps in his four previous starts at the 1.99-mile road course.
Trevor Bayne will make his third Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) start at Sonoma this weekend. Bayne earned a best finish of 23rd in the 2015 running of this event.
Ryan Reed has competed at Iowa Speedway six times in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. Reed has finished 19th or better in every start at Iowa. His best finish came in the second race last year where he started 14th and finished 10th.
Martin Truex Jr. has posted an impressive finishing average of 3.8 in the previous five NASCAR Cup Series races. The streak started with a victory in Kansas, followed by third-place finishes in Charlotte and Dover and a pair of sixth-place results in Pocono and Michigan.
“Iowa is a wacky place. Someone once told me, your feet drive like it’s short track and your hands drive like it’s an intermediate track and that’s very accurate. For being a short track a lot of intermediate theory does apply there and I think part of the reason it does that is because the place widens out so much. There are a lot of different grooves that form over the course of a race there and that’s what it’s known for. Iowa is one of the best short tracks that we have around these days. It... Читать дальше...
The first road course race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season is scheduled for Sunday at Sonoma Raceway, where Ford has won seven times. Here’s a look at some of those triumphs, along with updated notes heading into the weekend.
Sauter continues to lead the driver and owner championship point standings after the eighth race of the season. He has 1 win and 9 playoff points.
Popular. Iconic. A “must be in” race. If that is what you were looking for, you were disappointed. A 37-car field was the smallest in 21 years. Tight, pack racing, the kind that leaves you swooning each and every lap. If that is what you were looking for, sorry, Sonoma is coming up next weekend. No, this week it was Michigan.
1. Kyle Larson: Larson started on the pole at Michigan and led 96 laps on his way to the win at Michigan. Larson pulled away from Chase Elliott on a restart with five laps to go to claim his second win of the year.
Beginning this Friday, June 23rd, fans can save up to $15 off of race week pricing on grandstand tickets to Talladega Superspeedway’s anticipated October 15th Alabama 500 – the “Wildcard” event in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) Playoffs - with the track’s “Advanced Pricing.”
NASCAR announced today a return to Las Vegas for the ninth consecutive year with the annual postseason culmination of Champion’s Week — the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Awards — to be held at Wynn Las Vegas on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.
Brendan Gaughan and Brandon Jones to feature U.S. Cellular sponsorship in 2017 WELCOME, N.C. (June 19, 2017) – For the second consecutive season, Richard Childress Racing will return to the NASCAR XFINITY Series with sponsorship from U.S. Cellular. The No. 62 U.S. Cellular Chevrolet piloted by Brendan Gaughan will return to the track for the […]