Denny Hamlin will sub for Kyle Busch in the upcoming Camping World Truck Series race, the Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway. Busch, who is leading the Nationwide Series points, will be at Memphis Motorsports Park racing in that series. Hamlin will pilot Billy Ballew Motosports’ No. 51 Miccosukee Resort/Graceway Pharmaceuticals Toyota Tundra.
Jimmie Johnson passed teammate Jeff Gordon in the closing laps of the NASCAR Banking 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, and then drove away from Matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne to win his sixth race of the season, and third in the Chase. Johnson also padded his points lead.
Kyle Busch won theNationwide Series’ Dollar General 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in dominating fashion, leading 137 of 200 laps. The win is his seventh victory in the series this season, and his first in 11 races.
SceneDaily is reporting that with the news of Colin Braun moving to the Nationwide Series full time next season, Roush Fenway Racing will be leaving the Camping World Truck Series. Braun’s current RFR truck series team will move with him to the Nationwide Series next season, and Roush won’t replace it.
Roush Fenway Racing has unveiled its 2010 Nationwide Series Ford Mustang COT. The team also announced that Colin Braun will move from the Camping World Truck Series to the Nationwide Series full-time next season. Con-Way Freight will sponsor the team for 18 Nationwide races next season.
SceneDaily is reporting that NASCAR has tweaked its wave around rule on restarts to eliminate cars that are under penalty. Before the tweak, a car caught speeding during a green-flag stop could get the wave around if a caution came out before the penalty was served. This would keep the penalized car on the lead lap. Now, the [...]
Jimmie Johnson dominated the Pepsi 500 at Auto Club Speedway, and pulled away from Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon for the victory, and assumed the points lead by 12 points over teammate Mark Martin.
Richard Petty Motorsports has in its possession a race-ready Ford, which it could field for AJ Allmendinger as early as Lowe’s Motor Speedway next weekend. Should the team switch to Ford, the No. 44 would run Fords the rest of the season. Elliott Sadler is expected to switch to Ford at Talladega Superspeedway. Regardless of [...]
Joey Logano survived an eventful day at Auto Club Speedway to win the Copart 300, his second consecutive Nationwide Series victory. He capitalized on a late-race accident between race leaders Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, and Brad Keselowski, and then survived a green-white-checker finish.
NASCAR has decided to change the size of restrictor plates used at Talladega Superseedway in an attempt to slow the cars down and keep them from going airborne. The plate will be reduced 1/64th of an inch, bringing the size to 59/64ths of an inch. That should shave about 12 horsepower from the engines. Also, [...]
