Having notched just one victory this season compared to the five each for the Nos. 1 and 2 in points, Tony Schumacher and Larry Dixon, No. 3 Cory McClenathan is right in the mix as the 24-event season comes to a conclusion at the 45th…
Jimmie Johnson will need to average a fourth-place finish over the final two races, or fifth and a lap led in each of the final two races, or sixth and the most laps led in each of the final two races. If he does that,…
For Robert Hight a successful weekend at Auto Club Raceway would be a culmination of a dream that he thought had already come true on one level when he joined John Force Racing as a crew member.
After adding to his track record consecutive win streak at Texas Motor Speedway last Saturday (now at four), Kyle Busch led the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings by 272 points over second-place Carl Edwards (No. 60 Valvoline/O’Reilly’s Ford).
Matt Crafton (No. 88 Menards Chevrolet), coming off a second-place finish last week at Texas, still has a chance to win his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series title and deny Ron Hornaday Jr. (No. 33 VFW Chevrolet) his fourth, heading into the final two…
All four pro classes will crown their champions at the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals, Nov. 12-15 at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
Donny Schatz's championship run made him the only driver other than 20-time series champion Steve Kinser to win four championships and just the second driver to win four consecutive.
Capitalizing on superior fuel mileage, Kurt Busch drove his No. 2 Dodge to victory in the Dickies 500, after disaster struck Jimmie Johnson like a lightning bolt and made a race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup after all.
We have tried to create stories out of other things, like incidents on the track, the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race schedule, and potential team and sponsor changes for next season. We juggle numbers and create scenarios and throw the word “if” around…
Joey Saldana’s win was his second of the season at the state-of-the-art four-tenths-mile and he joins an illustrious list of drivers that have won 20 or more A-Feature events in a season with the World of Outlaws, as only 20-time series champion Steve Kinser, three-time…
Kyle Busch came close to a triple in February, when he won the truck and Nationwide events at Auto Club Speedway in California and finished third in the Cup race. If he completes the weekend sweep at Texas on Sunday, he'll do so in crew…
For Jason Meyers it was his second career win at The Dirt Track @ Lowe’s Motor Speedway and his second during the World Finals,
The NHRA Full Throttle season prepares to wrap up 2009 but the series is already looking ahead to next year with the release of its '10 schedule.
Kyle Busch led the final 50 laps of Friday night's WinStar World Casino 350 at Texas Motor Speedway and won his fifth straight race in as many starts in the series.
Donny Schatz circled the four-tenths-mile in 13.794 seconds to best a stout 57-car field, the largest in World Finals history
Three-time and defending series title winner Donny Schatz is locked in the closest point race in the 30-plus year history of the series, leading Jason Meyers by just 19 markers and Joey Saldana by 46 points, with two rounds of qualifying and two A-Feature events…
Although Eric Holmes led the championship standings through the first half of the season, Jason Bowles came on strong late in the year and clinched the title in the season finale by a 123-point margin.
As series teams prepare for Sunday’s Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson is staring down some personal and historical benchmarks.
Kyle Busch, the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings leader, is edging closer to claiming his first national series title.
Following his second round departure, Schumacher's lead in the Top Fuel standings suddenly came under serious attack by both Larry Dixon and McClenathan.
Last year’s race saw both championship contenders — Ron Hornaday Jr. and Johnny Benson — involved in accidents. When the checkered flag finally waved, the pair went to the season finale separated by just three points.
Each season Ashley Force Hood has improved in the point standings and this year she is in contention for her first title in only her third year driving a Fuel Funny Car.
Following its debut next summer at Daytona, the NASCAR Nationwide Series new car also will compete in points races at Michigan International Speedway in August, at Richmond in September and at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in October. Full integration for the new car into the series…
Jason Bowles, who parlayed a victory at Phoenix this spring in the NASCAR Camping World Series event to his first championship, the chance to take the next step and run in the Able Body Labor 200 is an opportunity too good to pass up and…
The finale of the World Finals will air LIVE on SPEED on Saturday, November 7 beginning at 8 pm. Eastern, with Bobby Gerould and Brad Doty on the call, with Shane Andrews and Erin Crocker reporting from the pit area.
Motorsports correspondent Doug Pace keeps up with motorsports news and notes from around the region.
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