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LAS VEGAS – Five NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota teams have had to change engines this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and four of them are because of a similar Toyota Racing Development engine issue.
by Holly Cain
Filed under: Kyle Busch, Other Racing Series, Sprint Cup
Can we please be real?
All this talk about a NASCAR driver hopping into a Formula One car and suddenly delivering the world its first American-bred F1 star since Mario Andretti is ludicrous.
Putting Kyle Busch or any other NASCAR driver (with the obvious exception of Juan Pablo Montoya and Scott Speed) behind the wheel of the newly announced USF1 team would be 90 percent novelty and 10 percent pure optimism.
Formula One Crossover Idea Is Absurd originally appeared on Motorsports FanHouse on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Kyle Busch won the pole, but like four other Toyota drivers will have to start at the back because of an engine change.
Sunday’s Shelby 427 Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is all about Matt Kenseth, and why shouldn’t it be? Kenseth has a shot at making history. He won the first two races of the season, and no driver has ever won the first three races of a Cup season (or Nationwide or Trucks, for that matter).
Filed under: Ryan Newman, Bristol Motor Speedway, Other Racing Series
Bristol Motor Speedway‘s public relations department got a nice kick this week thanks to a few NASCAR Whelen Modified Series drivers putting down some impressively fast laps at on the high banks of the half-mile east Tennessee track.
The laps, according to the track, were “record-breaking” because they eclipsed Ryan Newman‘s 2003 lap of 14.908 seconds (128.709 mph) during Sprint Cup qualifying at the track.
It turns out, thanks to the ever-mindful Jayski, that the laps might not have been so record-breaking after all.
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Questions Arise for Bristol Lap Record originally appeared on Motorsports FanHouse on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:04:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
With the help of NASCAR legends Ned Jarrett and Bondy Long, Darlington Raceway unveiled its new Southern 500 logo Thursday to promote the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race to be held May 9.
Wessa Miller, the girl who gave Dale Earnhardt her lucky penny prior to his winning the Daytona 500 in 1998, will return to Bristol Motor Speedway, the place where Earnhardt later brought the family to thank them for their special gift.
Never in the history of NASCAR has one driver won the first three races of a Cup season, but Roush Fenway Racing’s Matt Kenseth will try to do just that in this weekend’s Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a driver more eager than Ryan Newman to jumpstart his season in Sunday’s Shelby 427 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.