Chip Ganassi Racing Partners Up With PNC
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Chip Ganassi Racing Teams (CGRT) and PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) have formed a strategic sponsorship for the 2013 race season. The relationship, which includes assets across the CGRT’s IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-AM programs, will be focused around key motorsports events for each series in the Indianapolis market.
“It is always great when...
Chip Ganassi Racing teams announce innovative sponsorship with PNC
Chip Ganassi Racing Teams (CGRT) and PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) have formed a strategic sponsorship for the 2013 race season. The relationship, which includes assets across the CGRT’s IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-AM programs, will be focused around key motorsports events for each series in the Indianapolis market.
“It is always great when a highly respected company...
NASCAR driver Jeremy Clements indefinitely suspended after racial remark
NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Jeremy Clements did just about the dumbest thing you could do… just when NASCAR was trying to introduce a new audience to the sport, Mr. Clements does his best to send them back to Civil War era.
MTV reporter Marty Beckerman was speaking Clements and a NASCAR official, when Clements used ‘a phrase that used the n-word’ in a conversation about...
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World's first 360-degree backflip in a car
Check out the video. French stunt driver Guerlain Chicherit became the first person to perform a 360-degree backflip in a car. Chicherit drove his Mini toward the 25-foot high ramp at precisely 37 mph. He soared 75 feet into the air, flipped the car backwards and landed rear wheels first on the other side of a snow ramp at the French ski resort of Tignes in the Alps.
Ganassi golden again at Rolex 24
Chip Ganassi continued to make magic -- and history -- at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday.
Juan Pablo Montoya held off Max Angelelli to deliver Ganassi a record-breaking fifth Rolex 24 at Daytona victory. The Chip Ganassi Racing team's accomplishment also enabled Scott Pruett to secure his fifth overall Rolex win to tie the record held by Hurley Haywood. The victory...
STUDENT DRIVER
Monster truck teen takes sport to new heights
Rosalee Ramer is much like every other 15-year-old girl in Watsonville, Calif., except for one thing — she spends her free time “flying 10,000 pounds of truck through 30 feet of air.” That’s right — Ramer drives monster trucks. The sophomore at Pacific Collegiate School (who also plays the piano of all things) pilots Detour — a souped up 2010 Ford Ranger which she and...
Go Daddy says Danica Patrick is still their girl
Go Daddy has signed an outside agency to produce its two Super Bowl spots for the first time, and it remains to be seen if Danica Patrick will be part of the ads.
The company said Thursday it strongly supports the popular NASCAR driver, even if the ad campaign by Deutsch Inc. winds up not including Patrick.
Chief Marketing Officer Barb Rechterman tells The Associated Press that...
Pair join Waltrips in charity outing
Add sports icons Shaquille O'Neal and Eddie George to the star-packed list of celebrities, musicians and athletes joining forces for charity at the Third Annual Waltrip Brothers' Charity Championship Oct. 24-25 in Franklin, Tenn.
O'Neal and George will attend the Oct. 24 Champion's Dinner presented by Hendrickcars.com at The Factory in Franklin, during which country...
Hamlin crashes during testing at Kansas Speedway
Chase contender Denny Hamlin said he felt dizzy and had his ''bell rung'' after a hard crash during full-field testing Thursday at Kansas Speedway.
Hamlin was going 202 mph over the repaved surface of the 1.5-mile tri-oval when he clipped the rear of his No. 11 Toyota on the wall entering Turn 1. Hamlin's primary car for Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400 shot...
Hamlin crashes during Kansas testing
Chase contender Denny Hamlin crashed during testing Thursday at Kansas Speedway and remains under observation after visiting the infield care center.
Hamlin was testing on the repaved surface of the 1.5-mile tri-oval when he hit the wall entering Turn 1. The heaviest damage was to the front right side of his No. 11 Toyota.
Hamlin managed to get his car back to the garage area and...
Labonte Set to Tackle Kansas Speedway Behind the Wheel of the No. 47 Kingsford Toyota Camry
Today rain has delayed the two-day NASCAR Sprint Cup Series test session at the newly reconfigured Kansas Speedway in preparation for the Hollywood Casino 400 on Sunday.Labonte, who is racing with the Kingsford Charcoal brand on his No. 47 Toyota Camry, is turning his first laps on the repaved surface now during the shortened test session. Tomorrow cars will return to the track for...
Biffle fastest at Wednesday Kansas test
Trevor Bayne tests the 2013 Sprint Cup car for The Wood Brothers at Kansas Speedway.Greg Biffle just has a knack for getting around Kansas Speedway. The #16 driver topped the speed charts as teams tested the new asphalt and graduated banking at Kansas. Biffle circled the new surface with a best lap time of 29.205, 184.900 mph. He was followed on the scoring pylon by Mark Martin,...
Gilliland Ready To "Roll The Dice" In Hollywood Casino 400
David Gilliland heads to the Kansas Speedway this weekend for the 12th running of the Hollywood Casino 400. Gilliland will debut a new look on his No. 38 Long John Silver's Ford this week.
Gilliland is coming off of a career-best finish at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where he crossed the finish line 23rd at the track most of NASCAR members call home. It was his second consecutive...
NAPA Racing/Martin Truex Jr. Kansas 2 Preview
No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. has unfinished business with Kansas Speedway.
In April, the Michael Waltrip Racing driver dominated the Kansas 400 by leading the most laps — 173 — before battling for the victory in the closing minutes with eventual winner and Toyota driver Denny Hamlin.
This time around, Truex faces an entirely new racing surface. To prepare...
Plenty of speed on repaved track
"It's a typical repave" was the standard answer describing the feel of the newly redesigned Kansas Speedway.
After rain delayed the action on the 1.5-mile track for several hours, 47 teams finally were able to test for two hours on Wednesday. Thirty drivers broke the existing track record of 180.856 mph, set by Matt Kenseth in October 2005.
Greg Biffle topped the...
It’s Full Speed Ahead for Kurt Busch, Furniture Row Racing
The pace is rapid, and according to driver Kurt Busch, that’s the way it needs to be as the Furniture Row Racing team is in the midst of getting prepped for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
Following his debut run with Furniture Row Racing Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Busch was off to Sandusky (Ohio) Speedway Monday to test the team’s Martinsville Speedway...
Bowyer Looking Forward to Martinsville Speedway, TUMS Fast Relief 500
Clint Bowyer smiles a lot. He’s smiling even more these days. He’s become the quiet surprise of the 2012 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. He’s got momentum on his side and two welcome tracks in front of him.
The Sprint Cup Series races at Kansas Speedway this weekend, Bowyer’s home track. Next week it stops at Martinsville Speedway, the only short track in the Chase for the...
Farmers to give car to a Kahne fan
Farmers Insurance is rewarding one lucky Kasey Kahne fan with keys to a new car. As NASCAR's top drivers take to the track in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, fans of Kahne and the No. 5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet can chase their own dreams of that new car smell by entering the "Farmers Insurance Start Your Engines Sweepstakes." Fans can play for a chance to win $35,000...
Joey Logano Kansas Lottery 300
Just last weekend, Joey Logano uttered the words “if you had told me before the year, running a part-time schedule that we could win eight races, I would have probably have told you that you were crazy.” And those words were uttered while sitting in the media center at Charlotte Motor Speedway, following Logano’s eighth NASCAR Nationwide Series victory of the season. Logano...
Driver wisely sought help when needed
I've had a lot of Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans and other people say, "Wow, I can't believe Junior didn't run" and, "Why didn't he run, he looked fine" after he stepped out of the car for the races at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway.
After looking at the in-car camera after the crash at Talladega, a lot of people commented, "Well,...
Kyle Busch: Tackling New Kansas Surface with Winning Camry
There are two things that Kyle Busch looks forward to in this weekend's Kansas Lottery 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race. One, a newly paved surface on the 1.5-mile oval, where Busch has seven series starts which have yielded one win and four top-five finishes. Two, the opportunity to drive on the new track surface with one of Kyle Busch Motorsports' (KBM) best fleet...
Tissot Swiss Watches to Sponsor Danica Patrick's Chevrolet in Kansas Nationwide Series Race
Tissot, a manufacturer of Swiss watches since 1853, will be the primary sponsor on Danica Patrick’s No. 7 Tissot / GoDaddy.com Chevrolet in Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
Patrick, who is in her first full season in the Nationwide Series, is coming off an 11th-place finish in Charlotte. Entering the Kansas Lottery 300, she...
Kvapil Ready for Fresh Start at Kansas
It's a new beginning for the Sprint Cup Series at Kansas Speedway. The 1.5-mile track will have a fresh surface and updated banking geometry when the series arrives for Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400. Travis Kvapil, driver of the No. 93 Burger King/Dr Pepper Toyota, drove to a 25th-place finish in his last race at Kansas, but recognizes that this weekend will be a whole new...
Fresh Kansas Surface Has Cassill Optimistic about Weekend
Landon Cassill has a knack for fresh asphalt. Following the repaving at Michigan International Speedway, he drove to 18th-and 25th-place finishes. His 18th-place performance matched his best finish of the 2012 season. After Pocono Raceway received its facelift, Cassill scored his third-best starting position of 2012, 15th place, in the June race and finished 26th in the August race...
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