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PodCast from Lowe’s Motor Speedway with Steve Byrnes, Marcus Smith, Robin Pemberton, Ryan Newman and Steve Gaffney announcing changes to the format for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

 

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Justin Lofton, in an Eddie Sharp Racing Dodge, broke the ARCA RE/MAX Series qualifying record at Toledo Speedway on Saturday afternoon with a 15.860-second lap around the .5-mile short track. He starts on the pole alongside Dexter Bean for Sunday’s Hantz Group 200.
Lofton’s time was good enough to eclipse the ARCA RE/MAX Series’ previous qualifying [...]

As related earlier a shouting match, at the least, occurred between Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick in the LMS garage. Funny stuff, truth be told, but now a mini-controversy has erupted in the aftermath.
Tania Ganguli is a beat reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and along with co-blogger Matt Humphrey write the NASCAR Nuts & Bolts [...]

You probably know Wendy Venturini as a pit reporter for ARCA RE/MAX Series race broadcasts on SPEED, or possibly as the sister of veteran ARCA RE/MAX Series driver Billy Venturini and daughter of former series champion Bill Venturini.
Now you can call her a third generation and two-time race winner.
Tuesday night at Lowes Motor Speedway she [...]

If reports are true Bruton Smith will announce within the next 10 minutes he has purchased the Kentucky Motor Speedway.
Which raises the snarky question - I wonder if Eight is Enough?
The place was built for approximately $150 million, I’ll guess Smith is laying out somewhere in the neighborhood of $225 million for the property.
More later [...]

With apologies to Humpy Wheeler, the president and general manager of Lowe’s Motor Speedway has nothing on Rusty Wallace and Co.
Wheeler has a history of predicting the winner of the Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s. But it’s the Rusty Wallace-designed Iowa Speedway that’s 2-for-2 in foreshadowing the winner with Kasey Kahne’s victory Saturday night.
Kahne, like [...]