As the leaders battled for the checkered flag in the Bojangles’ Southern 500 Saturday night at Darlington Raceway, Danica Patrick continued her race to 2013.
For Patrick, Saturday was a 368-lap practice session and tutorial on the art of Sprint Cup racing as she prepares to go full-time in the Cup Series next season. Make that 362 laps — she was six behind the leaders and finished 31st when Jimmie Johnson took the checkered flag …Â More
Jimmie Johnson broke free on a restart three laps from the end in the Southern 500 and held on Saturday night to give Hendrick Motorsports its 200th Sprint Cup victory.
”I can’t believe we won 200 of these things,” team owner Rick Hendrick said. ”I can’t believe it took this long after we won 199.”
Johnson seemed short on fuel and tires and looked vulnerable with Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch right behind and ready to pounce  … More
DARLINGTON, S.C. — The first time Danica Patrick hit the wall was in her first run during Nationwide Series practice Friday morning, when she clipped it with the right-rear of her No. 7 car. In opening Sprint Cup practice, she hit it again entering Turn 3. Later, she scraped it in almost the same place in almost the same way. With minutes remaining in the session she hit it one more time, this time harder in between Turns 3 and 4, the impact leaving a long, white streak down the right side of her green automobile.
“I got my stripe!” she said at one point over the radio … More
From the time he was a child, Carroll Shelby was into cars. After a brief but understandable diversion into airplanes during World War II, Shelby eventually made his way back to his passion, racing and later building some of the world’s fastest cars.
He touched the lives of many people along the way, so we’ve scoured the internet for what some of them have said, and are saying, about this American automotive icon since his passing on Thursday … More