Instead of leading the field to the green flag in the Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will start from the back of the pack after wrecking his primary race car in practice.
Earnhardt still could win Sunday’s season-opening race – he’ll just have his work much harder to do so.
Earnhardt mangled his pole-winning car in practice Wednesday, colliding with five-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and sliding into a wall.
“We’ve got plenty of race cars,†Earnhardt said. “I ain’t worried about … More
The Pentagon has had a decade-long business partnership with the NASCAR stock-car racing circuit that has been a boon to the sport. But amid the House’s Republican-led frenzy to cut federal spending, some Democrats have made it a target, backing an amendment to the fiscal 2011 continuing resolution that would prohibit any of its funds going toward military sponsorships of stock cars.
Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., wants to pull funding for the Defense Department’s motorsports marketing enterprise, despite … More
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Kevin Harvick will try to win his third consecutive Budweiser Shootout from the 18th starting position Saturday night — but that’s not such a bad thing.
It doesn’t seem to matter where Harvick starts the 75-lap exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway. Last year he won from the second position. Two years ago he claimed his first Shootout win from 27th on the grid  … Details
The recently repaved surface at Daytona International Speedway is fast. Really fast. Maybe too fast.
In the most significant test on the 2 1/2 -mile superspeedway, cars topped 203 mph Friday during practice for the Budweiser Shootout.
Joey Logano turned the fast lap with an average speed of 203.087 mph in the second of two practice sessions. Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch also topped 203 mph. Several others were close behind. In all, 10 cars hit 200 mph. Four more were in the 199 mph range, creating some concern at NASCAR’s most famous track  … More