ABC will present NASCAR Nationwide Series with 300-mile race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday, March 5. ABC and ESPN’s Motorsports Coverage For March 2 Through March 6 ABC begins the broadcast with NASCAR Countdown at 2:30 p.m. ET, with flag-to-flag coverage of the race at 3 p.m. Marty Reid will call the action with analysis by Dale Jarrett, [...]
Dario Franchitti Indianapolis 500 Champion has made it two wins in the last four races ahead of Andretti Green Racing teammate macro Andretti across the finish line last Sunday at the Iowa Speedway held in conjunction with the inaugural Iowa Corn Growers Indy 250 in front of a sellout crowd of 35,838. Beginning at the inside of the second [...]
Kyle Busch and 65-year-old car owner Richard Childress were involved in a physical confrontation after Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway. NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp confirmed they are looking into it. Childress approached Busch and struck him with his fist in the garage area after the race, according to the Charlotte Observer. The fight was broken [...]
The Islip Motor Speedway, which opened in 1947 and closed its doors in 1984 was a popular local auto-racing track and is remembered fondly for being the source of some great auto racing trivia. The shortest track on record ever driven on by the top dogs of NASCAR was the .20 [2/10 mile] oval track at Islip Speedway in [...]
The NASCAR Atlanta Motor Speedway is in Hampton, Georgia (a suburb of Atlanta) and has a 1.54-mile oval track with turns banking at 24 degrees. Because these banks and their smooth surface, car speeds have been known to reach 190 mph on occasion. However these sustained high-throttle speeds make it hard on engines at the NASCAR Atlanta Motor Speedway. You [...]
For all of the adrenaline-seekers and race car fans out there, the Homestead-Miami Speedway offers everyone the opportunity to burn rubber on the same cement slabs that legends Jimmie Johnson and Danica Patrick, just to name a few, have graced with their very own tire tread marks! Johnson himself has been crowned NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion four consecutive times [...]
The Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida is home to some of the most significant NASCAR races there are. It is a 2.5-mile track and can seat 168,000 fans. Other racing associations share the track too so it is not exclusively a NASCAR facility. It is home to the race most Americans know because it has been around for [...]
