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Meyers Wins, Leads Series

Info Manager — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:47:54 +0000

RacinToday.com Jason Meyers not only picked up his third World of Outlaws win of the year Saturday but also took the lead in the series championship standings. Meyers won the finale of Kasey’s King of Bulls Gap Presented By Budweiser at the blazing fast and ultra high-banked Volunteer Speedway. Meyers opened the two-day event which was co-sanctioned with [...]

Race Day Q and A: With Roger Penske

Info Manager — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:51:30 +0000

RacinToday.com Roger Penske is one of the winningest and most respected team owners in all of motor sports. One of his current Sprint Cup drivers, Brad Keselowski, has been at the center of NASCAR’s major current controversy – a late-race crash at Atlanta two weeks ago in which Keselowski’s car was hit from behind by that of [...]

Race Day: Bigger Real Estate Squabbles On Tap?

Jim Pedley — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:13:42 +0000

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor RacinToday.com Safety and excitement tend to be mutually exclusive concepts when it comes to racing. Unlike love and marriage, it just seems that when it comes to safety and excitement, you can’t have one with the other. In today’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, that theory will be tested as [...]

Bourdais Spins, Rival Peugeot Wins at Sebring

Jonathan Ingram — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:04:58 +0000

Sebring, Fla. – It was fitting that an armadillo ambled onto the track shortly after sunset during the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring – and then safely made it to the other side of the wide expanse of concrete at Turn 17. This was one wacky race, although typical of the difficult conditions that [...]

Ugly Wreck Mars Legends Race

Info Manager — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:34:14 +0000

RacinToday.com A scary crash in a race for retired NASCAR drivers at Bristol Motor Speedway Saturday afternoon resulted in unspecified injuries to Larry Pearson and Charlie Glotzbach. Both were knocked unconscious in the crash and were transported to a hospital. Pearson and Glotzbach were injured when Glotzbach’s car slammed into the driver-side door of Pearson’s car as Pearson [...]

Allgaier Captures First Nationwide Victory

Info Manager — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:08:23 +0000

RacinToday.com Justin Allgaier held off Penske Racing teammate Brad Keselowski to win the Scotts Turf Builder 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday. The victory was the first of Allgaier’s Nationwide Series career. “Couldn’t be happier to be here. Unbelievable,” Allgaier said. “I hope this is the first of many.” Keselowski, who had won the pole for the [...]

Peugeot Looking Good At Sebring

Jonathan Ingram — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:39:32 +0000

Sebring, Fla. – The high-tech cars are often considered the stars in sports car racing. Judging by a circuit packed with all manner of vehicles and fans on foot, the phenomenal Peugeot 908 HDi’s continue to draw a crowd despite the absence of Audi from the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring for the first [...]

Fantasy Racing: Bristol

Nick Bromberg — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:06:47 +0000

Food City 500 Bristol Motor Speedway Sunday March 21, 1PM ET, Fox Race Facts: Bristol’s two pit roads are considered one under caution, but are separate during green. That tends to bite drivers in the butt, so odds are someone will get the rules confused on Sunday… The1971 race didn’t have any cautions. The first 50 laps Sunday [...]

NASCAR Meets With Combatants

Info Manager — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:45:47 +0000

RacinToday.com NASCAR met with drivers Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski and their team owners on Saturday morning to talk about their on-going feud. Afterward some of those involved talked about the meeting. Edwards said the meeting went well. “I think the biggest thing coming out of that meeting is that now, I think, Brad and I understand one another [...]

Pedley: Is Bad Brad Becoming A Garage-Area Outsider?

Jim Pedley — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:37:13 +0000

By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor RacinToday.com Apparently it is not just Carl Edwards who has cancelled his membership in the Brad Keselowski fan club. Judging from comments issued by other drivers at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend, Bad Brad may not exactly be walking among friends as he roams the garages these days. Jimmie Johnson, for example, [...]

Saldana Bulls To Victory

Info Manager — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:11:43 +0000

RacinToday.com Joey Saldana was good again on the high banks of Volunteer Speedway in Bull Gap, Tenn. Friday as he opened Kasey’s King of Bulls Gap Presented By Budweiser with a victory there. Saldana picked up his second consecutive win with the World of Outlaws at Volunteer Speedway and the third victory of his career at the [...]

Minter: Stewart Is On A Media Room Tear

Rick Minter — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:52:20 +0000

By Rick Minter | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Bristol, Tenn. – Tony Stewart, the driver who seems to have interpreted NASCAR’s directive to “Have at it” as instructions to launch a season-long string of insults aimed at the print media, was back at it on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. Quite ironically, the one reporter he seemed to have [...]

Newbie Gene Wins Sebring Pole

Jonathan Ingram — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:23:01 +0000

By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Sebring, Fla. – A rookie to the prototype division of the American Le Mans Series won the pole at Sebring for the veteran Peugeot Sport team. Marc Gene, a veteran of Formula One and a winner at the Le Mans 24-hour last year, said the track at Sebring would shock [...]

Logano On Cup Pole at Bristol

Info Manager — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:06:57 +0000

RacinToday Joey Logano, beginning his second full season in Sprint Cup, won the pole for the Food City 500 on Friday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway. Logano ran at lap 124.630 mph in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to take his first Sprint Cup pole. “We have a really fast Home Depot Toyota, for sure,” Logano said. “We [...]

Cup Notes: A Softening Ticket?

Jeff Hood — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:16:15 +0000

By Jeff Hood | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Bristol, Tenn. – Even mighty Bristol Motor Speedway is feeling the wrath of the Great Recession. Thunder Valley has long been considered the toughest ticket in NASCAR. But Sunday’s Food City 500 isn’t sold out. Veteran driver Jeff Burton admitted on Friday that the sport is in the midst of the worst economic climate [...]