Stewart-Haas Racing have made a deal with Tommy Baldwin Racing which sees Danica Patrick take over Dave Blaney’s guaranteed spot in the season opening Daytona 500.
Roger Penske is optimistic that Brad Keselowski can prove a capable team leader in 2012. Penske, who fired Kurt Busch after one controversy too many, picked up AJ Allmendinger to drive the no.22 car in the offseason, but with the Richard Petty Motorsport refugee yet to win a race in his NASCAR career, the onus will very much be on Keselowski, a three-time winner last year en route to fifth in the Chase, to lead the team to its first Cup title in 2012.
Bill Elliott will make a comeback this July when he drives the no.50 Turner Motorsports Chevrolet at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona in July. Elliott, 56, famously won the first Winston Million in 1985 – a prize of one million dollars up for grabs for anyone who could win three of the four ‘grand slam’ races on the NASCAR tour – which earned him the nickname ‘Million Dollar Bill’.
Richard Childress Racing will run 9 cars this year across the three series in NASCAR and will run a tenth for at…
Michael Waltrip has said that his team is in a stronger position than ever before ahead of the 2012 campaign. Waltrip, who…
Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a good 2011 season, he made it through to the Chase and finished seventh, all of this without…
Chip Ganassi has stated that the performance of his NASCAR team in 2011 was “pathetic.” Ganassi, whose Indycar and Grand Am teams…
The new Robinson-Blakeney Racing Sprint Cup team has announced that J.J. Yeley will drive its No. 49 Toyota for the entire 2012 season.
Greg Biffle hopes that an expansive restructuring of his no. 16 Roush Racing team will enable him to return to Chase Competition. …
Kyle Busch says that cutting down the number of races he runs in other levels of NASCAR will help him focus more on winning the big prize – the Sprint Cup.
On Tuesday Ford became the first of the four manufacturers in NASCAR to unveil its 2013 Sprint Cup car as part of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour, with the new Fusion the basis for its attack on the Sprint Cup.
Denny Hamlin is optimistic that his form will improve in 2012, with Joe Gibbs Racing having acquired last year’s championship winning crew-chief Darian Grubb from Stewart-Haas Racing in the offseason
Joey Logano says that he is not feeling under pressure despite an off-key 2011 season. The 21 year old has never made the Chase in his NASCAR career, and finished a lowly 24th in points last year, despite being part of the same Joe Gibbs Racing stable as Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin, who have been Chase regulars in recent years.
Danica Patrick has announced that she will add the Coca Cola 600 to her Cup schedule in NASCAR, meaning that she will not participate in the 96th Indianapolis 500, which runs on the same day, May 27th.
AJ Allmendinger is embracing the challenge of working with new team Penske Racing, following his move from Richard Petty Motorsports. The 30…
Ford will be the first manufacturer to unveil its new 2013 model when it hosts a media event tomorrow (January 24) at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The Fusion Sprint Cup race car will be based on the new Ford Fusion production model, which broke cover at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and is also due for a 2013 release.
Day 2 of NASCAR Acceleration Weekend, the kickoff event for the 2012 season, concluded yesterday in the Charlotte Convention Centre, adjacent to the NASCAR Hall of Fame which inducted Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Glen Wood, Dale Inman and Richie Evans on Friday.
