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Do You NASCAR? - NASCAR News

July 28th, 2008

List of the Week: Elements that Can Ruin a Race

Coming off the heels of a very disappointing race this weekend at Indianapolis, it got me thinking of what some of the biggest factors can be to ruining a race for us - the fans. Of course, we’re always unhappy when our driver finishes outside of the top-ten, or even worse, when the driver that […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 6 comments

June 25th, 2008

NASCAR Rivals: Kevin Harvick vs. Tony Stewart

Okay, so they’re actually pretty good friends and probably the furthest thing from being rivals with one another, but still. It’s pretty abnormal for Smoke to run this deep into the season without a Sprint Cup win to show for it, but so far in 2008, he’s managed to do just that. Of course, the […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 2 comments

May 24th, 2008

SMI Purchases Kentucky Speedway, But Doesn’t Pickup Cup Date

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It was announced Thursday that Bruton Smith, company chairman and CEO of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) has purchased Kentucky Speedway, located about midway between Louisville, KY and Cincinatti, OH, for the sum of $78.3 million - the track had originally cost $152 million just to build. Smith was […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 0 comments

May 19th, 2008

the Big Ten: Best Kyle Busch Wrecks

With all of the controversy that Kyle Busch has managed to cause already this year due to his reckless on-track behavior, I thought it would only be fitting to compile a list of his most shining moments … or, rather, his top-ten wrecks. Enjoy!
10. Busch gets spun by Jeff Burton at the finish line as […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 8 comments

May 13th, 2008

RCR to Get an Early Start on Building #33 Team

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Richard Childress Racing has announced that their brand new number 33 team - not scheduled to go full-time until the 2009 season - will be fielded in the running of the Coca Cola 600 two weeks from now at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, and that NASCAR veteran […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 3 comments

March 10th, 2008

Stewart Smokes His Tires

In listening to and reading post-race comment after the running of Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500, you’d never know that Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and Jeff Gordon all finished inside the top-five based on their commentary alone. In what’s turning into an ongoing saga between the race car drivers and Goodyear that started months ago […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 6 comments

March 5th, 2008

Stewart Okay After Wreck(s) in Vegas

Tony Stewart came into this past weekend of NASCAR action riding on as hot of a hand as anyone in the garage as he sat first in the Nationwide Series points standings and third in the Sprint Cup Series.  Lady luck played an evil trick on the man known as “Smoke” and took an ugly […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 2 comments

March 3rd, 2008

NASCAR Finds Something ‘Amiss’ Inside the No. 99

Just hours after Carl Edwards won the UAW Dodge 400 in Las Vegas to garner his second Sprint Cup Series victory in a row, NASCAR inspectors found an issue with his no. 99 Ford in post-race inspections. The issue was that the lid on his oil tank box was off. Earlier in the season at […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 0 comments

March 2nd, 2008

Rating the Race: UAW-Dodge 400

NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series kicked off their first race of March with a bang this Sunday in Sin City when they visited Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the UAW Dodge 400. Heading into the weekend, Kyle Busch and his no. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team was the talk of the town as he came into […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 0 comments

March 1st, 2008

Busch Owns the Table in Vegas

It was a good news / bad news type of day for most NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers today.  The good news – there were no rain clouds in sight in Las Vegas on Friday, and the series actually got their qualifying event in at the scheduled time. The bad news – Kyle Busch is […]

By Tim Zaegel -- 0 comments