NASCAR Podcast
THE CHAMPION JIMMIE JOHNSON
We wrap up our look at the Top 10 drivers of the 2013 NASCAR Racing season, and winning The 2013 Sprint Cup Series Championship is JIMMIE JOHNSON who is now a 6 Time Sprint Cup Series Champion.
STATS: 6 Wins, 16 Top 5’s, 24 Top 10’s 3 Poles, only 1 DNF
$7.9 million in winnings
LISTEN TO THE FINAL LAP FEATURE #1
LISTEN TO THE FINAL LAP FEATURE #2
Continue reading “Top 10 NASCAR Drivers of 2013 – The Champion Jimmie Johnson”
Nov. 3, 2013
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
FORT WORTH, Tex. — As dominant as Jimmie Johnson was in Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, is team owner Rick Hendrick confident that the driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet will deliver the organization’s 11th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title two weeks from now at Homestead?
Yes, Johnson destroyed the opposition at Texas, leading 255 of 334 laps and beating teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr., the race runner-up, to the finish line by 4.390 seconds.
Yes, Johnson leads fourth-place finisher Matt Kenseth by seven points in the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings. But Johnson led Brad Keselowski by seven points after eight Chase races last year before losing the title to the Penske Racing driver.
Accordingly, Hendrick isn’t ready to stake his claim to the championship. Continue reading “Chalk Up Another Championship? Not Yet, Says Rick Hendrick”
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — It was a sheepish Rick Hendrick who visited the Kansas Speedway media center in the middle of Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400, backtracking on an earlier statement that Dale Earnhardt Jr. had been cleared to race next weekend at Martinsville.
In fact, Earnhardt still has two hurdles to clear — a closed test at Gresham Motorsports Park in Georgia on Monday and a visit with neurologist Dr. Jerry Petty on Tuesday — before he can return. Earnhardt was held out of the No. 88 at Charlotte and Kansas while recovering from two recent concussions.
Continue reading “Dale Earnhardt Jr. Cleared To Race Martinsville, Or Maybe Not Yet”
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.
RICK HENDRICK
STEVE LETARTE
DR. JERRY PETTY
KERRY THARP: Joining us up front we have Steve Letarte, crew chief of the No. 88; Dale Earnhardt, Jr., driver of the No. 88; team owner Rick Hendrick; and Dr. Jerry petty, neurosurgeon. At this time I’m going to call on Dale Earnhardt, Jr., who has some things he’d like to share with everyone.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: I guess I’ll just start out with where this all kind of began. We had a test at Kansas about five weeks ago, and we blew a right front tire going into Turn 1, and I remember everything about that accident and everything after that accident, but I knew that I didn’t feel — you know your body, and you know how your mind works, and I knew something was just not quite right.
But I decided to just try to push through and work through it. I’d had concussions before and knew exactly kind of what I was dealing with.
Continue reading “Dale Earnhardt Jr. Press Conference Transcript, He’ll Miss Charlotte And Kansas”
By: Toby Christie – Follow on Twitter @Tobalical
Martin Truex Jr. nearly made it back to victory lane this past Sunday for the first time since the 2007 season (175 races ago). However after leading a race-high 173 laps, he was forced to settle for a second-place finish when Denny Hamlin edged ahead of his No. 56 NAPA Toyota with just 30 laps to go in the STP 400 in Kansas.
“I’d like to try it again,” Truex would exclaim when he exited his car Sunday, ”I mean, I drove as hard as I could.”
Truex has been on a roll as of late, and he is actually now up to second in the point standings after eight races in 2012, which is the highest he has ever ranked in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings in his seven-full seasons in NASCAR’s premier division. He will get his chance to try again at snapping his long-long-long winless drought this Saturday in Richmond.
The Final Lap Weekly 