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2014 NASCAR Hall Of Fame Class Announced Flock, Ingram, Jarrett, Petty and Roberts

May 22, 2013 by Leave a comment

Hall of Fame Logo2014 NASCAR Hall Of Fame Class Announced
Flock, Ingram, Jarrett, Petty and Roberts Comprise List Of New Inductees

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 22, 2013) – NASCAR announced today the inductees who will comprise the 2014 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The five-person group – the fifth in NASCAR Hall of Fame history – consists of Tim Flock, Jack Ingram, Dale Jarrett, Maurice Petty and Fireball Roberts. Next year’s Induction Day is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, broadcast on Fox Sports 1 from Charlotte, N.C.

The 54-member NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel met today in a closed session in Charlotte, N.C., to vote on the induction class of 2014. NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France made the announcement this evening in the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s “Great Hall.”

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Coca-Cola 600 Favors Sprint Cup Champions, Except…

May 22, 2013 by Leave a comment

Daytona Friday Tony Stewart In GarageCharlotte’s Coca-Cola 600 is a race for champions. All but three NASCAR Sprint Cup titleholders from 1993 through the present have a least one victory in the season’s longest race. Among the missing – surprisingly – is three-time champion Tony Stewart, whose only Charlotte victory came in the track’s 2003 fall race. Stewart has just one Coca-Cola 600 top-10 finish – sixth in 2007 – in his most recent eight races. His best finish, third, came in 2001. Reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski also searches for his first Coca-Cola 600 victory. Keselowski finished fifth a year ago in his third 600 start. Terry Labonte, the 1996 series champion, is the third. He won the fall 1996 race at Charlotte, but never the 600-miler.

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Johnson-Busch Battle Seems Likely In NASCAR’s Longest Race

May 22, 2013 by Leave a comment

2012 All Star May NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Jimmie Johnson Kyle BuschConsider Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race a preview of Coca-Cola 600 things to come – a battle between a champion whose Charlotte dominance is unquestioned and another who’s red-hot in 2013 but has yet to win at the 1.5-mile speedway. Jimmie Johnson, a three-time 600 winner, won his record fourth All-Star Race. Kyle Busch, whose Charlotte Driver Rating of 107.7 ranks second only to Johnson’s 111.7, was the third-place All-Star finisher after winning two of the four 20-lap segments. Busch finished third in last year’s 600.

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Defending Winner Kahne Chasing Fourth Coca-Cola 600 Victory

May 22, 2013 by Leave a comment

Kasey Kahne at DaytonaThe defending winner of the Coca-Cola 600, Kasey Kahne looks for his fourth victory in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing’s longest race. Kahne’s Charlotte statistics are impressive: four victories overall, a sweep of spring/fall races in 2006 and leader of six of the nine Coca-Cola 600 events in which he’s competed. Kahne ranks sixth in series points standings with a victory at Bristol Motor Speedway. He finished fourth in Saturday’s night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

Kasey Kahne (No. 5 Time Warner Cable Chevrolet)

·         Four wins, seven top fives, 10 top 10s

·         Average finish of 12.4

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20-Year Anniversary Of Jeff Gordon’s First Start In ’600′

May 20, 2013 by Leave a comment

jeff-gordon-kansas-1-2013CHARLOTTE, N.C.(May 20, 2013) - In Jeff Gordon’s 700th career start at Darlington a few weeks ago, the 87-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series winner notched his 300th career top-five. But what does he remember about his third career top-five – a runner-up finish to Dale Earnhardt – in Gordon’s first attempt in the 600-miler at Charlotte Motor Speedway?

Not much.

Gordon, whose first race in NASCAR’s premier series was the season finale in 1992, began his rookie campaign with a fifth-place finish in the season-opening Daytona 500. In March, he would secure his second top-five with a fourth-place finish at Atlanta. Seven races later – and several crashes later – Gordon would post his first of 65 career second-place finishes when he followed “The Intimidator” across the line here 20 years ago.

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2013 NASCAR All Star Race Results – Jimmie Johnson Goes Back To Back

May 18, 2013 by 1 Comment

2013 charlotte all-star practice jimmie johnsonJamie McMurray won the Showdown event to advance to the All Star race, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was second and also advanced, along with Danica Patrick moves on as the fan vote.

ALL STAR RACE FROM CHARLOTTE

The Busch brothers dominated this race.

SEG 1 WINNER – KURT BUSCH

SEG 2 WINNER – KYLE BUSCH

SEG 3 WINNER – KYLE BUSCH

SEG 4 WINNER – KURT BUSCH

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Column: Is winning Bruton Smith’s $1-million bonus a realistic possibility?

May 18, 2013 by Leave a comment

bruton_smithMay 17, 2013

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

CONCORD, N.C.—Kyle Busch calls it a 300-to-1 shot.

Jimmie Johnson, on the other hand, doesn’t discount the prospect of winning Bruton’s Big Bonus nearly that much.

Track owner Bruton Smith, chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., has offered a $1-million bonus to any driver who can win all five segments of Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. That’s in addition to the $1-million top prize already on the line for the winner of the non-points NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

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