It’s hard to find a hotel room near Bristol Motor Speedway on race weekend, and even harder to afford what is available.
The same room that goes for $259 a night with a three-night minimum during a Sprint Cup race was found through an Internet search for $65 a night during a midweek Car of Tomorrow test two years ago. It’s gouging, it’s outrageous and it prices many fans right out of the weekend.
But it’s not NASCAR’s fault, or the fault of … Details
A beat-up old khaki Hummer with no top stopped at a light in downtown Orlando and Tom Hammonds pointed at it.
“I’d race that if I could,” Hammonds said, laughing, as we sat having lunch and chatting about his roots in drag racing.
It all started with the most dangerous kind. Street racing in his hometown of Crestview. He even raced in his mother’s station wagon…Â Details
As Joey Logano tore through NASCAR’s lower divisions last year, he picked up the nickname Sliced Bread. But as Logano transitioned to NASCAR’s top division, that bread turned stale.
Four races into the Sprint Cup season, the big story remains the freshman class’ continued struggles. While it’s early still, Logano has yet to record a top 10 finish, and he’s languishing at No. 33 in the standings while racing for a team that won two championships …Â Details
Brian Wolfe has learned to live with less and, hopefully, make it work.
The director of Ford’s North American motorsports program since the middle of 2008 came from the company’s power train unit, where he says budget and personnel cuts were a way of life long before the economy began crashing down around everyone’s heads.
“There’s no easy jobs at the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers),†Wolfe said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve been at Ford for 27 years now in a variety of leadership positions and you learn to focus on what’s really critical to be successful.
“And being successful means I have to have a winning platform and championship capable teams and I have … Details