If this weekend’s Amp Energy 500 from Talladega Superspeedway taught us anything, it taught us that NASCAR’s rules are always subject to interpretation, depending on the star involved. Somewhere between the words spoken in the driver’s meeting before Sunday’s race and the feeling of jubilation Regan Smith felt as he took the first checkered flag of his career [...]
After Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s team lost an engine, Jimmie Johnson‘s team was nervous about their engine. They checked it out before the race, which meant they had to start at the back of the pack. Because they were starting in the back, they decided to hang back. But shortly after the drop of the green [...]
Tony Stewart managed to stay out of trouble to, despite being the second to cross the finish line, win the Amp Energy 500 from Talladega Superspeedway. On the restart for a green-white-checker finish, Stewart had the Dale Earnhard Inc. teammates Regan Smith, Paul Menard, and Aric Almirola running in second through fourth respectively. At the drop of [...]
After the House rejected the $700 billion bailout bill, Senate lawmakers added several “sweeteners” to encourage more lawmakers to approve it. McClatchy is reporting that the Senate bill would extend a tax policy that expired in December that allowed motorsports facilities, including NASCAR tracks, to be treated like amusement parks, for tax purposes. The rule [...]
Two time Indy 500-winner and Indy Racing League driver Helio Castroneves is facing federal tax charges in Miami.
SceneDaily is reporting that Joe Gibbs Racing driver Joey Logano will not return to Hall of Fame Racing’s No. 96 car this season, a spokesperson confirmed. Logano was slated to drive at the Bank of America 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, the TUMS QuikPak 500 from Martinsville Speedway, and the Dickies 500 from Texas Motor [...]
ESPN is reporting that JTG Daugherty Racing has reached a “technical alliance” with Michael Waltrip Racing, which means that JTG will field Toyota Camrys next season in the Sprint Cup. The team will be housed under the same roof as MWR, and will receive chassis, engines, and tech information-sharing from Toyota Racing Development. Team owner and [...]
Jayski is reporting via SpeedTV that there is a rumor circulating that Rusty Wallace may come out of retirement and drive for Dale Earnhardt Inc next season. Kenny Wallace, Rusty’s brother, wrote: All I can say is that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And he is definitely considering stepping back into a race car. Wallace attributes [...]
