BRISTOL, TENN. – A photographic look of the NASCAR racing action on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. All photos provided courtesy of NASCAR and Getty Images.
Author: Mike Haag
Mike Haag
Mike Haag has covered motorsports in San Antonio and South Texas for more than 39 years. In addition to covering motorsports for the San Antonio Express-News for nearly 28 years, Mike also has co-hosted TrackSmack with Dawn Murphy for 19 race seasons. In addition to being a writer, Mike taught high school English and Journalism for 30 years before retiring in May, 2020.
Several NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers will be running throwback paint schemes on their race cars for the upcoming NASCAR race at Darlington Raceway. Here are a few photos of the drivers and their cars.
Courtesy of the NHRA The following are excerpts from a teleconference featuring NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series guests including Top Fuel tuning consultant Alan Johnson, Brittany Force (Top Fuel), and Alexis DeJoria (Funny Car). MODERATOR: Thank to members of the media for calling in today. We are four races into the 2016 season, have already seen some incredible racing thus far, and the next event coming up is the very unique NHRA Four-Wide Nationals April 22-24. Alan Johnson is the tuning consultant this season for Brittany Force and Steve Torrence. The two teams have created an informal strategic alliance…
Courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series Hunter-Reay ready for Long Beach double: Ryan Hunter-Reay has enjoyed many great experiences at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. He met his future wife Beccy at Long Beach, the pair were engaged there and Hunter-Reay won the 2010 Verizon IndyCar Series race on the 1.968-mile temporary street course. Now he’s adding another achievement. Not only will Hunter-Reay be driving the No. 28 DHL Honda for Andretti Autosport in the April 17 Verizon IndyCar series main event, but he’ll be racing the day before in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in Visit Florida…
FORT WORTH – Texas Motor Speedway will serve as the backdrop for the NASCAR-themed episode of Thursday evening’s The Dude Perfect Show on CMT. The Dude Perfect crew of Tyler Toney, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones and twin brothers Coby and Cory Cotton filmed at Texas Motor Speedway during last November’s AAA Texas 500 NASCAR tripleheader weekend that included guest appearances by drivers as well as Dude Perfect in an honorary race role. The episode, which airs at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT, is the second in the show’s debut season for the five Texas A&M University friends that became YouTube sensations over…
Track: Streets of Long Beach, a 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street course (clockwise) Race distance: 80 laps / 157.44 miles Entry List: Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (PDF) Push-to-pass parameters: 10 activations for 20 seconds each Firestone tire allotment: Four sets primary, three sets alternate Twitter: @ToyotaGPLB @IndyCar, #TGPLB, #IndyCar Event website: www.gplb.com INDYCAR website: www.IndyCar.com 2015 race winner: Scott Dixon (No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet) 2015 Verizon P1 Award winner: Helio Castroneves (No. 3 Auto Club of Southern California Chevrolet),1:06.6294, 106.331 mph Qualifying lap record: Helio Castroneves, 1:06.6294, 106.331 mph, April 18, 2015 NBCSN race broadcast: Sunday, April 17 (4 p.m. ET) NBCSN qualifying broadcast: Saturday,…
INDIANAPOLIS – A longtime partner and sponsor in Indy car racing, MillerCoors has reached a multiyear partnership agreement with INDYCAR that will see the second-largest brewer in the United States become the official beer and cider of INDYCAR and activate its status in many Verizon IndyCar Series race markets. “We’re delighted to welcome MillerCoors back to INDYCAR and excited to add another commercial partner to the Verizon IndyCar Series,” said Mark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Co., the parent of INDYCAR and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “The key to this partnership is MillerCoors’ plans to activate in many of our race markets,…
FORT WORTH – A photographic look at the Duck Commander 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway.
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service FORT WORTH – Opportunistic Kyle Busch sped away from the rest of the field after a restart with 33 laps left in Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and collected his second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory. What’s more, Busch won his fourth straight NASCAR national series race, having swept last week’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup events at Martinsville and having won Friday night’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Texas. Quite simply, the prodigious numbers continue to pile up for the driver of the No. 18…
FORT WORTH – A few photos of the racing action at Saturday’s Duck Commander 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. All photos provided courtesy of NASCAR, Texas Motor Speedway and Getty Images.