If Kevin Buckler had his way, TRG Motorsports’ NASCAR arm would have a well-structured, multi-car Sprint Cup program embellished by entities in at least two stock car feeder series; well-funded and empowered by high-caliber personnel.
If that sounds like the TRG Motorsports that sports car fans became familiar with over the last decade, thanks to piles of championships, race wins and brutally frank out-front competition — it should …Â Details
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Extends lead to 90 as eight Chasers finish outside top 10Â
Saturday night’s NASCAR Banking 500 was appropriately named. After winning the race as his two closest pursuers fell by the wayside, Jimmie Johnson can all but take his fourth consecutive Cup title to the bank.
Johnson, who started from the pole and led all three practice sessions for the fifth race in the Chase, pulled away during a 17-lap run to the finish and beat runner-up Matt Kenseth to the finish line by 2.303 seconds.
In winning his sixth race of the year and the …Â Details
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Nelson Piquet Jr. was impressed by his first NASCAR run after testing a Toyota Tundra truck for Red Horse Racing this week.
The former Renault F1 racer got his first taste of NASCAR machinery at Motor Mile Speedway on Tuesday, after initial plans to run at Little Rock in Rockingham had to be called off due to rain on Monday. Piquet said he was surprised by …Â Details
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Autoweek reports today that fledgling NASCAR Sprint Cup team The Racer’s Group and floundering manufacturer Dodge are interested in hooking up for the 2010 season.
The combination would be a marriage of two backmarkers in the series looking to move on to better things after markedly different 2009 campaigns…Â Details