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Starbeast Motorsports Founder Miguel Abaroa is pleased to announce that driver Narain Karthikeyan will make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut on March 27 in the Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway.

Twenty-four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams assembled Tuesday at Talladega Superspeedway in an R&D test session that was used to confirm that the gear ratio was compatible with the restrictor plate size for next month’s running of the Aaron’s 499.

 

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Back in 1982, NASCAR star Bill Elliott twice tamed the high banks at the track now known as Gresham Motorsports Park in a Ford Mustang.

Hickory native Shane Huffman came home victorious in the rain-delayed UARA-STARS 150 at the Hickory Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon after a spirited, side-by-side battle with Coleman Pressley during the closing laps of the event.

NASCAR development driver George Miedecke dominated the Yokohama V8 Ute Legend race with a flag to flag win at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.

Australian NASCAR star Marcos Ambrose has pushed the limit at a Goodyear tire test at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina this week, despite recovering from a minor back injury.

Le Affair Mayfield has taken many twists and turns in the last 12 months, in a two part episode of the new year - “In Related Matters” - a few dots are being connected.

NASCAR has placed Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, on probation for the next three series events for a rule violation he committed during the race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 7. Edwards’ probation will run until April 14 of this year.

Enter FT’s wayback machine a minute, “They will be their own governing body. … They will have to watch and help each other, as much as police each other.” - John Darby in Jan. 2010.

Driving a No. 2 Chevrolet that saw its first action this weekend at Atlanta, Kevin Harvick dominated Saturday’s E-Z-Go 200 to win for the third time in his last three starts in NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series.

Despite impressive debuts in ARCA and the Camping World Truck Series, ex-Formula One driver Nelson Piquet Jr. is already facing sponsorship issues.

Prosecutors will make a plea offer by next month to a 67-year-old Randolph man accused of shooting his pet African grey parrot to death last year because the creature’s squawks annoyed him as he watched NASCAR.

Frustrated by slow stops on pit road and a variety of different tire strategies on the part of his competitors, Harvick passed Denny Hamlin for the lead with 25 laps left in Saturday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and pulled away to beat Hamlin by 1.361 seconds.

Driver Erin Pac (Farmington, Conn.) and brakeman Elana Meyers (Douglasville, Ga.) of the United States captured the bronze medal as the Olympic women’s bobsled competition concluded Wednesday night at The Whistler Sliding Center.

The term racer to NASCAR fans means one thing, modern-day Gladiators wheeling 4 wheeled 3,500lb hunks of tin, Kevlar and fiberglass. Admittedly we as NASCAR fans have a very narrow definition of the term and that’s sad in many respects.

Throughout an incredibly successful career, which included three NASCAR Cup championships and 105 victories, David Pearson always looked forward to racing at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Looking around the racing newswires this Tuesday has been an exercise in, not futility or uselessness, more like “Ho-hum that all there is.” In that light here are a few headlines that did spark a bit of interest.

God help us, Speed Channel is about to find out if NASCAR fans are able to sing and dance. The network is launching a talent search show called “Fast Track to Fame,” on March 1.

PRISM Motorsports efforts at Daytona were called “historic.” For the first time in the team’s history they entered two cars for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event, the #66 Toyota of Dave Blaney and the #55 Toyota of Michael McDowell.

A loose tire on pitroad cost Keven Harvick a trip to the back of the field at Fontana but it allowed Jamie McMurray’s crewman Adam Mosser to put on a ballerina act by as he leapt over the hood of the No. 29 RCR machine.