The “Spingate” cheating scandal is one of the most defining moments of NASCAR’s long history. The scam involved several members of Michael Waltrip Racing and eventually led to the team’s demise.
INDIANAPOLIS — NASCAR fans are rallying on social media, urging Fox Sports to broadcast Friday’s ARCA Menards Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series doubleheader at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) from the track rather than the network’s Charlotte studios.
On Wednesday’s episode of his YouTube morning show, Coffee with Kenny, former driver and NASCAR’s media mouthpiece Kenny Wallace, tackled the ongoing feud involving SiriusXM NASCAR Radio hosts Larry McReynolds and Danielle Trotta, NASCAR legend Mark Martin, and driver Denny Hamlin.
There’s cheating and then there’s outright stupidity. Such was the case with Michael Waltrip Racing, when Waltrip’s No. 55, in his and his team’s very first race driving for Toyota, the 2007 Daytona 500, was caught with an illegal additive — often described as jet fuel — in its intake system.
Michael Waltrip was appointed as the person to wave the yellow flag for the Promoter’s Caution during this past Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race. But nobody told Waltrip to actually throw it.
The promoter’s caution is out at North Wilkesboro in the NASCAR All-Star Race, via Michael Waltrip…and he DROPPED the flag! Serving as the grand marshal today for the race, Waltrip was given the task of waving the yellow flag for the promoter’s caution.
NASCAR officially revealed the format of the upcoming NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. According to 1996 NASCAR All-Star Race winner Michael Waltrip, who spoke to the media in a Zoom call on Wednesday morning, the biggest change is the addition of 50 laps to bring the Main Event race to a grand total of 250 laps.
The NASCAR community is divided since last year when Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin‘s team 23XI Racing filed a lawsuit alongside Front Row Motorsports over the updated charter model.
There's a litany of competitive reasons why NASCAR doesn't need a playoff format in order to be exciting, but Sunday proved another reason why — it creates opportunities for the integrity of the sport to crumble in what should be its most exciting moments.
After Sunday night’s five-overtime finish at Nashville Superspeedway, folks complained. Michael Waltrip wants them to stop it. The NASCAR icon took to social media to set the record straight on overtimes.
This Saturday is the beginning of dirt SZN, as the SRX gang head to the I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Missouri. This 0.3-mile clay oval beauty has 19-degree banking in the corners and 10-degree banks on the straights. It's basically the Thunderdome.