Raymond Beadle, who won three consecutive NHRA Funny Car class championships from 1979 to 1981 and guided NASCAR legend Rusty Wallace to the 1989 Winston (now Sprint) Cup championship as a team owner, has passed away at the age of 70 in Dallas.
In addition to those accomplishments, Beadle won three IHRA championships and also owned a World of Outlaws team that featured Sammy Swindell as its driver.
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Racing bigwig Gene Haas is getting all his ducks in a row in preparation for the 2016 launch of his new Formula One team. One of those ducks he needs in a row is two drivers. And to that end, he just said he thinks Danica Patrick is a “great candidate” for one of the two seats.
Haas gave the remarks as he was being interviewed by NBCSN’s Leigh Diffeyabout many of the challenges involved in getting the team started. Besides all the Patrick stuff, he dropped some interesting tidbits along the way … More
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The stylized 3 will appear in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing at Texas Motor Speedway this week for the first time since 2000. Austin Dillon, driving the Chevrolet SS of Richard Childress Racing, understands the heavy obligation that comes with carrying the number popularized by the powerful Dale Earnhardt before his death.
“Dale Earnhardt is Dale Earnhardt not only because of the number but because he was a hero and created so many things for this sport,” said Dillon, a Cup rookie. “The number … hopefully I can continue the legacy that it has and keep on moving with it.
“You’ve got to have those blinders on because you want to … More
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It took most of a day to get it in, but only one short slice of a moment to determine the outcome.
In a race that was delayed more than six hours by rain, Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 56th running of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.
The 39-year-old led six times for 54 laps in the 200-lap event, holding off Denny Hamlin for the victory in a two-lap dash set up after a multicar crash in Turn 3 … More
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