Richard Petty is NASCAR’s winningest driver with 200 career wins in it’s top-tier Cup Series, and while “The King” has seen numerous first time winners in recent years he does not expect Danica Patrick to join that list.
There is only one way Patrick could win a race, “If everybody else stayed home.” Petty told Wheels.ca during the Canadian Motorsports Expo.
Richard is not the first Petty to be outspoken regarding his opinion on Patrick’s driving ability … More
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Since first stepping in a go-kart at age 13, it’s taken me exactly ten of the most nerve wracking, disorienting and exciting years of my life to reach the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Through those ten years, almost $10 million dollars of funding has been spent by sponsors, investors and owners on me.
I can’t count the number of times I was about to step into a race car and I was told by someone, “This is your only chance, make it count.” … More
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Co-owner of the Stewart-Haas Nascar racing team, Gene Haas, has said he wants to create a new Formula 1 team.
Haas, together with project partner Guenther Steiner, who is a previous technical director of Red Bull and Jaguar, responded to a recent call from F1 for potential new teams to express interest, and Haas’s proposal is now thought to have been entered into the sport’s evaluation process.
Haas owns CNC machine manufacturer Haas Automation and the Windshear wind tunnel in North Carolina. His Cup team currently fields cars for driver Tony Stewart, who is Haas’s potential F1 partner, Danica Patrick, Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch … More
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Danica Patrick climbs behind the wheel of a rental Kia and pulls into traffic. She doesn’t drive fast so much as faster than is necessary given the circumstances. She gets just close enough to be too close to the car in front of her, and then inches closer still. There is too much traffic to really open this car up … and not enough car that it would be worth opening up anyway. When she steps on the gas, it makes a noise like she stepped on a sick kitten.
I ride shotgun. Joe Crowley, her p.r. man from Stewart-Haas Racing, sits in back with Elizabeth Driscoll, the head of GoDaddy p.r. We’re going to Yogurtology, a self-serve frozen yogurt place not far from … More
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