The tired NASCAR axiom of “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” has been outdated for the past decade, if not longer, but the executives who run Rick Hendrick‘s NASCAR team and auto dealerships brought it back to life last month at Daytona.
Hendrickcars.com, the Web site that aggregates all of the used cars at Hendrick’s 80 dealerships, was the sponsor on Tony Stewart‘s winning car at the season-opening Nationwide Series race. Not only did Stewart’s car lead much of the race and capture the checkered flag, Stewart also mentioned the site in his post-race interview on FOX…. Details
In a rare show of accord, the NASCAR drivers testing tires at Darlington Raceway this week agreed that Goodyear is making progress on the most thankless task in racing.
All four drivers testing at Darlington — Kevin Harvick, Bobby Labonte, Elliott Sadler and Denny Hamlin — felt the tires Goodyear brought to the track had worked well so far…Â Details
When budding NHRA star Eric Medlen was fatally injured two years ago it was seen as a tragic but isolated accident in a risky profession.
Then drag racing received another blow: the death of veteran Scott Kalitta in a crash last June.
That served as “a wake-up call,” said 14-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force, who owned Medlen’s car.
“Even a few months after Eric, I was thinking maybe everybody was right and it was a one-time fluke,” Force said in a recent interview. “Then, Scott was killed. We saw …Â details