Thursday 17 May 2012
Sponsorship of Jeff Gordon’s car was filled Thursday when longtime partner DuPont announced a three-year extension with the four-time NASCAR champion. DuPont has been with Gordon since his Cup debut in 1992, but the company is scaling back its commitment starting next year. It will be Gordon’s primary sponsor in 14 races. “I can’t...
Elliott Sadler called Friday “the first day of the rest of my life.” If so, it was a pretty good start. Barely an hour after announcing a deal that will put him in one of Kevin Harvick’s Nationwide Series cars next year, Sadler blew away the field in qualifying for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race...
Kevin Harvick is aware of the history the two drivers ahead of him in the Sprint Cup standings have at Martinsville Speedway — and he’s refusing to be intimidated by it. Harvick is not conceding anything to four-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson or Denny Hamlin with five races left in the season. Harvick...
Ex-NASCAR driver Shane Hmiel (meal) is showing some positive signs in the hospital as he recovers from a crash over the weekend in Indiana. The U.S. Auto Club said Tuesday that the 30-year-old Hmiel remains in critical but stable condition at an Indianapolis hospital with fractures in his neck and back. He doesn’t appear...
What may be the last NASCAR event at Gateway International Raceway may include some fireworks. Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards return to the track on Saturday with some history. Edwards bumped then-leader Keselowski out of the way just 200 yards from the finish line to win the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway on...
Hours after he was too ill to get back in his wounded race car, Kasey Kahne ran a Sunday morning 5k for his charity in a shade over 22 minutes. “That was the slowest I ever ran a 5K,” he said. “I’m definitely feeling the effects.” Yes, Kahne was physically sick Saturday night, and...
JR Motorsports locked in Danica Patrick for the first four Nationwide Series races of 2011, and the rest of her schedule will depend on her IndyCar commitments. Team co-owner Kelley Earnhardt said Friday that Patrick will run at Daytona, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Bristol next season. It will be her first trip to Bristol’s...
Rick Hendrick never panicked as the season stretched on and he still didn’t have a sponsorship deal for Jeff Gordon. Why? Because he always had a contingency plan to fall back on. It gave him the ability to be discerning when it came to the four-time NASCAR champion. Then came the potential pairing with...
Jeff Gordon said earlier in the week he figured his chances of getting back into contention for a fifth series championship were pretty much gone. On Sunday, Kurt Busch helped make sure there was no doubt, bumping Gordon coming out of the fourth turn and sending him slamming into the front-stretch wall and out...
A Brazilian prosecutor warned Felipe Massa that he could be arrested and sentenced to up to six years in prison if he takes team orders to help Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso win the Formula One title. Massa could be charged with fraud if he allows Alonso to pass him or if he does anything...
