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With a push from teammate Aric Almirola, Kyle Busch surged past Todd Bodine in the final quarter-mile of Saturday’s Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway to win his sixth race of the season and the 15th of his career.

Ron Hornaday Jr. raced to his first NASCAR trucks victory of the season and the 40th of his career, holding off Kyle Busch over the final laps Friday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Hornaday passed 2008 winner Matt Crafton for the lead shortly after the restart on lap 106 of the 134-lap race.

Hear from the title contenders and series directors in both the NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

 

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To the best of my knowledge the employment line outside NASCAR’s world headquarters has been fairly short given the lack of job openings available. (Excluding crew chiefs & drivers whose jobs are always subject to being eliminated at the drop of a hat.)
However, given NASCAR’s latest pronouncement from… On High, I’m beginning to wonder if [...]

Mike Skinner captured the pole for tonight’s Built Ford Tough 225 at the Kentucky Speedway. The #5 Bill Davis Racing Toyota driver rounded the 1.5-mile speedway in 31.487 seconds (171.499 m.p.h.).

With NASCAR’s premier division enjoying one of the few off-weeks in its hectic schedule news has been somewhat slow.
Between that and my blog software having an upgrade released this week that has thrown asunder my site redesign plans for some unspecified time I offer the following, it won’t make the list of Classic Short Story [...]

By way of Doug Demmons we learn Montgomery Motor Speedway may be back in action this year after the speed plants purchase by NCTS driver Rick Crawford.
Contingent on the city of Montgomery, Alabama granting a new license to operate the track Crawford hopes to have the 1/2 mile paved oval in operation this fall and [...]

After a strong NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut at Martinsville Speedway, 20 year-old Chrissy Wallace will be back in the Germain Racing #03 Tundra Friday night in The Milwaukee Mile’s Camping World RV Sales 200. Wallace, who’s never seen the track other than in video games, will rely heavily on her father’s advice and her [...]

Hmmm… sumptin tells me NASCAR Suits went to school over their recent flubberroo when the TV network missed the green flag and first half lap of an event because of a very late running, rain delayed edition of “America’s Pastime.”
The Suits have sent out a press release announcing a revised TV schedule because of conflicts [...]

Randy Moss a wide receiver for the New England Patriots has formed Moss Motorsports, which intends to compete in NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series.
Moss said he plans for the team to debut at some point in the second half of this season and run selected races. The partial schedule is a prelude to a full-time campaign [...]

For full disclosure, NASCAR has been and still is double X chromosome challenged, no one disputes that.
The klieg lights have shown even brighter on the fact since the Danica Tsunami washed over Twin-Ring Motegi last weekend.
Given that, it was only natural the motorsports press would seek out past females with experience at various levels of [...]

(For the non-hockey oriented NASCAR fan the 5 hole is the the spot between he legs of the goalie)
Brian France, a/k/a People’s Commissar of NASCAR Affairs (PCNA), for some reason has decided to come out and defend the sports drug testing policy. Again.
Speaking to sports editors bobbleheads from some of the nation’s largest news organizations [...]