Before this year, Joey Logano was barely old enough to drive, let alone drive at Darlington Raceway. So it didn’t hurt having one of NASCAR’s all-time greats in Cale Yarborough show him around.
Logano is the 18-year-old phenom settling into the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing seat given up this season by Tony Stewart. On Wednesday, Logano toured the track “Too Tough To Tame†with five-time Southern 500 winner Yarborough.
“This is one of the track’s where I wonder what’s going to happen,†Logano said. “So to have one of the greats in Cale show me is really neat.â€
The 70-year-old Yarborough has certainly mastered NASCAR’s oldest superspeedway … Details
Josh Grant can almost hear the wheels turning when motorcycle fans see him and his Joe Gibbs Racing motocross team getting ready for an AMA Supercross race.
Joe Gibbs Racing? Motorcycles? Really?
Believe it.
Grant understands the curiosity. He also was a little surprised when he first saw JGRMX join the popular Supercross series last year. But the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.
“I was like, ‘You know what? That’ll open our sport up to a new side and open up new opportunities for riders to get into NASCAR,†Grant said… Details
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Subaru Rally Team USA driver Travis Pastrana came out on top of a hard fought battle at the Olympus Rally, round three of the 2009 Rally America National Championship, to earn his second win of the season. Pastrana, with co-driver Christian Edstrom, drove a faultless rally in their 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX STI rally car but needed to go flat-out on the final stages of competition to pull away from a strong field of challengers, winning by a convincing forty seconds. Pastrana’s Subaru teammate Ken Block led the rally after Day One but an engine problem sidelined him midway through the final day. Bad luck also befell Subaru Rally Team USA’s newest team member, BMX legend Dave Mirra, who damaged his STI in a spin late in the rally while sitting in 2nd place in the Super Production class…Â Details
What do NASCAR drivers talk about when they’re not racing around the track?
Why, food, of course.
Whether it was Dale Earnhardt Jr. talking about his new diet, the Busch brothers talking about how they’d like to open a string of In-N-Out franchises in the Carolinas, or Mark Martin talking about his distain for greasy, fatty meals, food was very much the topic of conversation this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, where the entrée was, of course, the Subway Fresh Fit 500.
“I just changed my diet a lot, and I’m running … Details