NASCAR to put fans right back in crash seats
At least 28 fans were injured by debris from a crash at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, and the Daytona 500 will run as scheduled on Sunday, NASCAR's senior VP of racing operations and Daytona's president Danica Patrick, who hopes to make history Sunday by winning the Daytona 500, is opening up on her new [...]
Read MoreNascar: Daytona 500 Race Goes On After…
On Sunday, NASCAR's Sprint Cup competitors will race with heavy hearts in the Daytona 500 after at least 28 people — with reports of more — were injured in the frontstretch grandstand on the final lap of the Nationwide Series event after Kyle Larson On Sunday, NASCAR's Sprint Cup competitors will race with heavy hearts [...]
Read MoreLast-Lap Crash in Nascar Race Injures Fans
Create. Inform. Engage. | Journalism training, media news & how to's. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The forecast for Daytona Beach, Fla., this weekend calls for partly sunny skies with a possibility of scattered storms. That means the Daytona 500, Nascar's premier event, could be delayed again. But maybe this time, rain won't The first woman [...]
Read MoreBrad Keselowski meets with boss
Daytona Beach, Fla. — The 2014 Chevrolet SS performance sedan was introduced to the public and the press in the infield of Daytona International Speedway hours before its Nascar doppelgänger rolled onto track for the first race of the season, It took Nascar six years to make the change, ostensibly to cut down on slipstreaming [...]
Read MoreNASCAR meets with Keselowski after USA TODAY cover story
Wallace, another product of NASCAR's Drive for Diversity Program, became the first African-American to win a NASCAR Nationwide Series pole, in fourth career attempt, at Dover last fall. Wallace, 19, will be driving for Kyle Busch Racing. He made four For Brian France, Chairman and CEO of NASCAR, hurtling down a racetrack at 200MPH – [...]
Read MoreBrad Keselowski is part of new NASCAR
Kevin Harvick won the first of the 150-mile 'Duel' qualifying races at Daytona on Thursday afternoon, setting one half of the grid for Sunday's showpiece 500-mile Sprint Cup opener. A NASCAR driver freaked out like a petulant teen in an interview. Video of his expletive-laden outburst featuring a great "yeah right" is Internet gold. For [...]
Read MoreBrad Keselowski shares vision for NASCAR's future
Hellyeah and NASCAR seem like a perfect match and fairly soon they will be. The band just announced that they've teamed with FanPyre to co-brand NASCAR. Did you see where the Florida Department of Transportation is sponsoring a NASCAR car this weekend at Daytona? Actually, you're the one sponsoring it, since the $175,000 being spent [...]
Read MoreTeen making history as 4th black driver in NASCAR
Kyle Larson is looking to win in all three NASCAR Home Tracks divisions competing on Monday and Tuesday at Daytona International Speedway. He joins Lee Pulliam and Coleman Pressley as drivers to watch in Monday's Kyle Larson won last night's All-American Tour race at the Short Track at Daytona and now has his sights set [...]
Read MoreCan Ragan do it again at Daytona?
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Jack Madrid of Dove Canyon, Calif. won last night's 76-lap NASCAR Super Late Model feature at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Night of Fire Super. The legacy of those Firecracker days still lives at Daytona, even though the race is now called the Coke Zero 400 and is rarely run on July [...]
Read MoreKenseth status makes for strange season
Chicago Trib
Richard was even better than his daddy, Lee, one of the pioneers of a once-fledging NASCAR empire. With 54 career wins in his pocket, Lee gave the car keys to Richard and told him to ramble on. The son eclipsed anything the old man ever did until it NASCAR track owner Bruton Smith recently suggested [...]
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