Hendrick Motorsports’ Jeff Gordon admitted that it’s tough to compete against teammate Jimmie Johnson season after season for championships. But when it came down to it, he enjoyed watching the driver make history Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
He also enjoyed making a little history of his own, as Gordon helped …Â Details
NASCAR’s season finale always has a feel similar to the last day of school. Â
However, over the past two years, the experience has been comparable to graduation, as one question loomed: “Will today’s familiar faces be part of tomorrow’s motorsports fabric?”
The past two seasons, the day after the NASCAR season finale has become known as “Black Monday.”
In 2008, Dale Earnhardt Inc.’s merger with Chip Ganassi Racing led to more than 200 people being let go as the teams … Details
24/7 Wall St. looked at a very large number of Nascar crashes to assess which were the most expensive. The crashes reviewed occurred between 2002 and the present.
A Fox Sports analysis estimates that the cost of a single Nascar car is $125,000 for auto, engine, and labor. All of the teams carry multiple vehicles. Engine development programs run as high $3.5 million a season, although we have not prorated that into the costs of any of the crashes.
The most important hidden cost is … Details & Crash Videos
Jimmie Johnson never let up in pursuit of a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship.
This was no easy Sunday drive for the most dominant driver of this decade, even though Johnson needed only a 25th-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway to hold off teammate Mark Martin in the race for the Sprint Cup title.
Instead, Johnson raced hard for 400 miles and even threatened to try to run down the leaders to better his eventual fifth-place finish …Â Details