Brian Vickers, driver of Red Bull Racing’s No. 83 Toyota, has been hospitalized with an undisclosed medical condition. He will miss this weekend’s Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway. Casey Mears will take over driving duties this weekend.
Tommy Baldwin Racing has announced that Casey Mears will drive the No. 36 Chevy starting at this weekend’s race at Richmond International Raceway. Mears takes over for Johnny Sauter who drove the car in the last two races. Mears started the season with Keyed-Up Motorsports in the No. 90, then left the team to serve [...]
Keyed-Up Motorsports announced that Scott Riggs will drive the No. 90 Chevy at Phoenix and Texas. He replaces Casey Mears, who recently left the team to serve as a backup driver for Denny Hamlin as he recovers from surgery to repair his ACL. Phoenix will be the 2010 Sprint Cup debut for Riggs, who has [...]
According to Keyed-Up Motorsports’ Official Facebook page, ”Our deal with Casey was six races and we honored that, both Keyed-Up and Casey honored that. Casey has decided to participate elsewhere the next few races, and we will announce our replacement on Tuesday. Casey has been a great benefit to our team and we wish him the [...]
Denny Hamlin tore his ACL while playing basketball in January. At the time, he decided to postpone surgery until the end of the season. Now, he has decided to go ahead with the surgery on Monday. He said that it wouldn’t be worth it to do more damage. But, was there another factor leading to the change of heart?
Keyed-Up Motorsports, which has yet to qualify for a Sprint Cup race this season, announced that Juice Air Fresheners and SMELLmyCAR.com return as co-primary sponsor for the No. 90 car and driver Casey Mears for this weekend’s race at Bristol.
Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne nipped Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart at the line respectively to emerge from the Gatorade Duels victorious. The combined margin of victory was .02 of a second. Johnson beat Harvick by a mere .005, and Kahne beat Stewart by .014.
Robby Gordon Motorsports has hired Iain Watt to serve as crew chief for the team’s No. 7 Sprint Cup Toyota this season. Watt joins RGM from Richard Petty Motorsports, where he was director of performance engineering. Watt replaces Doug Richert, who was recently hired by Keyed Up Motorsports to be crew chief for Casey Mears.
Keyed Up Motorsports announced that Casey Mears will drive the team’s No. 90 Sprint Cup entry for the 2010 season. Doug Richert was recently hired as crew chief for the team.
Depite earlier reports that Richard Childress Racing would field it’s No. 07 car at the Daytona 500, the team said that it will not field the car, driven by Casey Mears, because sponsorship could not be found. Meanwhile, BB&T has renewed its sponsorship of Clint Bowyer and the No. 33 car.
