CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – NASCAR is implementing a few tweaks meant to improve the racing before Saturday night’s $1 million All-Star event. The rule changes revealed Monday are designed to reduce downforce and sideforce, which in theory will slow the cars and potentially make it easier to pass. Teams will no longer be permitted to use brake-cooling fans starting this…
DOVER, Del. (AP) – Kevin Harvick has won the pole at Dover International Speedway after rain wiped out qualifying Friday. Harvick will start first in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race because he posted the fastest lap of 165.145 mph in the only practice. Dale Earnhardt Jr. joins Harvick on the front row. Joe Gibbs Racing placed Kyle Busch third and Carl…
DOVER, Del. (AP) – Tony Stewart suffered his first serious hit since his return from a back injury during a three-car wreck at practice Friday at Dover International Speedway. Danica Patrick’s No. 10 dumped oil on the track, spun and the rear of her Chevrolet burst into flames. Stewart, her Stewart-Haas Racing teammate, was behind her and the No. 14…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – NASCAR has suspended Kyle Busch’s crew chief and tire changer for one race for violating the lug nut policy during the team’s win at Kansas last weekend. Adam Stevens was also fined $20,000 and placed on probation through the end of the year. Front tire changer Josh Leslie is on probation until Dec. 31. NASCAR said…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – Martin Truex Jr. will start on the pole Saturday night in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway. Truex turned a lap of 190.921 mph in the final round of qualifying Friday night, earning his first pole since April 2012 at Texas and giving himself some confidence at a track he’s come to love….
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – NASCAR announced a new format for the All-Star Race at Charlotte on Friday that will feature two 50-lap segments followed by a 13-lap shootout in which a portion of the field will be on fresh tires. The changes are intended to spice up the $1 million dash on May 21. Drivers will be required to…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – NASCAR has decided that Talladega Superspeedway won’t be an elimination race in next year’s championship Chase. The Alabama track swapped its date with Kansas Speedway in the most significant change to the 2017 schedule released Thursday. Talladega had been the third race in the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship to…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – NASCAR has decided that Talladega Superspeedway won’t be an elimination race in next year’s championship Chase. The Alabama track swapped its date with Kansas Speedway in the most significant change to the 2017 schedule released Thursday. Talladega had been the third race in the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship to…
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) – A test session at Indianapolis Motor Speedway has delayed the inevitable conversation between teammates Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch. Edwards bumped Busch out of his way on the last lap at Richmond to score his second consecutive victory. Although Busch said nothing disparaging of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, he didn’t seem pleased with the move….
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – NASCAR has added mandatory fines and other penalties for teams caught without five lug nuts on each wheel. The move announced Monday comes less than a week after three-time series champion Tony Stewart urged NASCAR to take action. The series had stopped monitoring lug nuts during pit stops and some teams were using fewer than five,…
