FORT WORTH – A photographic look at the NASCAR XFINITY Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 on Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway. Kyle Busch won the 200-lap race and notched his 80th victory in 316 NASCAR XFINITY Series races. All photographs in the slideshow are provided courtesy of photographer Michael C. Johnson.
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.
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service FORT WORTH – Kyle Busch broke his NASCAR XFINITY Series “losing streak” on Friday night and in the process moved into rarefied air in the Lone Star State. With a dominating victory from the pole in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway, Busch won for the fourth time in five XFINITY starts this year. His only loss in that stretch was a second-place run after a late blown tire robbed him of victory in his last outing at Auto Club Speedway. But on Friday night, Busch was back to his winning…
FORT WORTH – Carl Edwards earned the pole during qualifying on Friday afternoon for Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Edwards recorded a lap timed at 27.748 seconds, 194.609 mph in his No. 19 Stanley Tools Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camry. This was Edwards’ 17th pole in 416 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. It was also his second pole in 23 races at Texas Motor Speedway. Below are a few things that Carl had to say about his qualifying effort today. How did the track feel during qualifying? “This is fun, guys. Each…
FORT WORTH – A photographic look of the events and racing action on Friday at Texas Motor Speedway. All photos provided courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway, NASCAR and Getty Images.
FORT WORTH – Texas Motor Speedway will receive a little “magic” from an unusual source. Lil’ Dale, a Nubian goat from Interlachen, Fla., received national media attention beginning in 2002 for a white “3” marking born into its brown coat that served as a tribute among race fans to the number of the late seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt Sr. Lil’ Dale attracted the attention of race fans across the country during her time on the goat farm of Laura Pierson. Just a year after the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr. following an accident in the 2001 Daytona 500, Laura…
FORT WORTH – Fourth-grader Jenna Johnson and her classmates at Samuel Beck Elementary School thought they were headed to a full-school assembly Thursday to get motivated for the final turn of Texas Motor Speedway’s Speeding To Read program. Instead, Johnson and the nearly 800 kindergarten through fifth graders at Trophy Club school received the surprise of their young lifetimes. Kevin Harvick , the 2014 Sprint Cup Series champion, made a surprise visit to Samuel Beck Elementary to present Johnson with her rewards for being selected as the overall winner of the Lionel Racing “Design A Die-cast” competition. The competition by…
FORT WORTH – A photographic look at the racing action on Thursday at Texas Motor Speedway. All photos provided courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway, NASCAR and Getty Images.
FORT WORTH – If there is one thing that NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kevin Harvick wants to do more than anything else this weekend is to win Saturday’s Duck Commander 500 race at Texas Motor Speedway. Harvick, who drives the No. 4 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing, has won five NASCAR XFINITY Series races and one NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at TMS, but he still has yet to make a visit to Victory Lane at TMS in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. “We are excited to be back in Texas,” said Harvick during a telephone interview on…
FORT WORTH – Beginning today the Duck Commander 500 NASCAR doubleheader weekend, Texas Motor Speedway will roll out a “Trending Now” news blog on its website and mobile application that will feature up-to-the-minute news, schedule updates, on-track recaps and more for its three major race weekends. The blog, located on the right side of the texasmotorspeedway.com home page, will contain the latest news for fans on both on-track and off-track activities as well as various news items throughout the race weekend. Motorsports veteran writer John Sturbin will anchor the daily coverage with recaps of all on-track activities for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series…
FORT WORTH – If you are interested in doing a little duck hunting for autographs and pictures with the cast of the A&E hit show Duck Dynasty, here is your best chance at this weekend’s Duck Commander 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Saturday, April 9 Phil Robertson – 10:00-11:30 a.m. – Texas Motor Speedway – Duck Commander Compound between Gates 1 & 2 Ms. Kay – 10:00-11:30 a.m. – Texas Motor Speedway – Duck Commander Compound between Gates 1 & 2 Jase Robertson – 10:00-11:30 a.m. – Texas Motor Speedway – Duck Commander Compound between…