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Mar

Automobile NASCAR – Martinsville coming at a good time for Earnhardt Jr.

All the talk this past week — shoot, the entire Sprint Cup season — of the need to split up Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his crew chief/cousin, Tony Eury Jr., obscures two noteworthy facts:

First, Earnhardt is a mere 66 points out 12th place, the final Chase-eligible position, and second, there are 21 races before the field for the Chase is set in September at Richmond.

On Wednesday, team owner Rick Hendrick made it clear on a national teleconference he was not going to split up the two juniors. “I am 100 percent behind this group,” Hendrick said. “I have no intentions of making any…  Details 

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26
Mar

Automobile NASCAR Sports Car – TRG Motorsports taking small steps in NASCAR

With very little sponsorship and a skeleton crew, David Gilliland and TRG Motorsports aren’t going to contend for a championship in NASCAR’s elite Sprint Cup Series anytime soon.

But they head to Martinsville Speedway this weekend locked inside the top 35 in points, a huge victory for a small team fighting against the economic slowdown in NASCAR.

“It’s been nerve-racking,” said Gilliland. “We’ve just had to take it week by week and fight hard to get to this point. From here, we only hope it gets a little easier.”

That’s not likely for TRG, an acronym for The Racers Group. Founded by Kevin Buckler, a former sports car driver with an extensive and successful background in that series, the team is fighting an uphill battle in NASCAR’s elite division. They’re racing against multi-car teams with millions of dollars in sponsorship and fully staffed engineering departments.

But fresh off a 1-2 finish in its class at the Rolex 24 sports car race (ninth and 10th overall), TRG put together a Sprint Cup Series team in under two weeks and went to NASCAR’s season-opening Daytona 500 intent on proving to the industry that …  Details

26
Mar

Automobile Motorcycle – Motorsport Crash Compilation (F1, V8, GP2, A1GP, Indy, WTCC, MotoGP…)

26
Mar

AUtomobile Motorcycle Crashes – DNF Crashes

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