Author: Mike Haag

Courtesy of the NHRA GLENDORA, Calif. – As part of the celebration that is the East Coast opener, the AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, the world’s largest motorsports sanctioning body will make an offer to area students that they simply can’t refuse: 50 percent off general admission tickets for any race day during the event. Discounted Thursday tickets are $11; Friday tickets are $21 and tickets purchased by students with ID on either Saturday or Sunday will cost $32 each. Every ticket purchased for the thrilling NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event, March 17-20, at Gainesville Raceway, includes pit…

Courtesy of the NHRA GLENDORA, Calif. – Once again in 2016, NHRA’s loyal fans will be able to vote their favorite Pro Stock driver into the NHRA K&N Horsepower Challenge, a special bonus event for the factory hot rod class. The K&N Horsepower Challenge will be held Saturday, April 2, during the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The lucrative event is open to eight drivers, seven of which will be determined by points earned at NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events. The eighth spot will be decided by the fan vote.…

Courtesy of Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. – Organizers today announced the Country 500 day-by-day lineup and put single-day tickets on sale for the very first time.  Country 500 – The Great American Music Fest at Daytona –, will be held Memorial Day Weekend, May 27, 28 & 29, 2016.  Country 500 will take place on the infield of the world-famous Daytona International Speedway, a historic first mega-music festival inside the hallowed grounds of one of the most iconic motorsports venues in the world. The day-by-day lineup for the first-ever Country 500 will feature: Friday, May 27 Jason Aldean,…

Courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations Department FORT WORTH – Texas Motor Speedway has partnered with race entitlement sponsor Duck Commander to raise awareness and funds for adoption in conjunction with the Duck Commander 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday, April 9. To help generate adoption awareness, Texas Motor Speedway and Duck Commander have established a special “Drive Adoption” ticket package for NASCAR’s first points-paying Saturday night race of the 2016 Sprint Cup season. The package consists of two frontstretch tickets for the Duck Commander 500 – NASCAR’s third-largest paying race – and a pair of special…

Courtesy of Matt Donovan, AM Racing AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Wayne Self and his AM Racing team continued their NASCAR Camping World Truck Series initiation at Atlanta on Friday evening, as the rookie driver battled to a 16th place finish in the Great Clips 200. Self, who was making just his second NCWTS start, qualified 20th for the race in his No. 22 AM Technical Solutions Toyota Tundra and was running 14th prior to the final restart. He finished on the lead lap at a track many veteran drivers consider perhaps the series’ toughest. Self was coming off a season-opening performance at…

Courtesy of Stockseth Racing and Geiger Media Global HOUSTON – Mark Stockseth has been a fixture at NHRA drag races for years and more often than not his wife Marshall is by his side. The Stockseths routinely support a litany of racers, including current Stockseth Racing benefactors Erica Enders, Jeg Coughlin Jr., and Matt and Angie Smith. The couple are just as generous away from the racetrack, funding a variety of cancer-fighting charities to honor Marshall’s ongoing fight with the disease. Now they are asking the racing community at large to join in their latest endeavor and support good friend…

Courtesy of the NHRA CHANDLER, Ariz. — Leah Pritchett raced to her first Top Fuel victory Sunday at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals. Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Jason Line (Pro Stock) also picked up victories at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park near Phoenix. Pritchett used a quicker reaction time and a performance of 3.775 seconds at 323.12 mph in her Quaker State dragster to finish in front of Brittany Force’s 3.774 at 321.35 in her Monster Energy dragster. It was the first all-female Top Fuel final since Shirley Muldowney…

[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”5″ gal_title=”Sunday Atlanta”] Story and photos courtesy of NASCAR HAMPTON, Ga. – With wrecks erupting behind him, Jimmie Johnson took the checkered flag in overtime under caution in Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway—and then he remembered. Almost lost in the euphoria of Johnson’s second straight victory at the 1.54-mile track was the realization that, with his 76th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory, he had tied the late Dale Earnhardt for seventh on the all-time wins list. But as the No. 48 Chevrolet rolled around the track on its victory lap, heading in a clockwise…

Courtesy of IndyCar Series AVONDALE, Ariz. – The Valley of the Sun welcomed the Verizon IndyCar Series back to Phoenix International Raceway this weekend. The teams and drivers responded with a very rapid thank you. Competing en masse for the first time at the historic 1.022-mile oval since 2005, 21 drivers participated in the two-day promoter test that served as a preview for the upcoming Phoenix Grand Prix on April 2 (8 p.m. ET, NBCSN). More than 5,300 laps were completed, with 18 drivers clocking times faster than the official track record set two decades ago by Indy car great…

Courtesy of Atlanta Motor Speedway HAMPTON, Ga.  – After finishing second five times in 11 XFINITY Series races at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch put together a dominating race and held off a late charge by Kyle Larson to win the Heads Up Georgia 250 and become just the second driver to win in all three national touring series at Atlanta. Kevin Harvick, the only other driver to win in all three series at Atlanta, was a nonfactor for most of the day after early car trouble put him down as many as two laps. He would never recover and finished…