Nelson Piquet Jr. claimed a breakthrough second-place finish in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Nashville Speedway. The Brazilian was making his 10th start in the series, which he joined in 2010, in the fifth points event of the year. He qualified an impressive fourth in what was his first race at the 1.33-mile concrete oval and ran in the top 10 all night. Piquet started moving toward the front in the  … Details
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — An unoccupied building that once was part of innovative NASCAR designer and mechanic Smokey Yunick’s “Best Damn Garage In Town” was destroyed by fire Monday night, according to a report in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Yunick moved to Florida from New Jersey after serving as a B-17 bomber pilot during World War II. He began repairing cars at his mobile home, then purchased a laundromat  … More
Two of this season’s four NASCAR Sprint Cup restrictor-plate races are in the books, and two-car drafting has been the hot topic in each.
So that begs the question, is the two-car draft good for the sport?
We have seen two great finishes, starting with   … More
Over the past five years, Danica Patrick has certainly paved the way for some up-and-coming female drivers, but they’ll have a tough road to hoe without some stats and good looks to back up their marketability.
Patrick didn’t exactly set the world on fire with impressive stats before landing an IndyCar ride with Bobby Rahal  … More