Only four days after confirming that her longtime sponsor GoDaddy would sponsor her final Daytona 500 attempt next month, Danica Patrick announced Monday she will make that last NASCAR start driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro with Premium Motorsports. The team will be led by crew chief Tony Eury Jr., who served in the same […]
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Lewis Hamilton reveals Nascar hopes and plans to star in Talladega Nights 2
The Mercedes driver recently secured his fourth World Drivers’ Championship title in Formula One with two races to spare. Lewis Hamilton has made no secret of his plans to do things beyond F1 in the future. And his latest revelation has seen him admit the possibility of competing in Nascar for Puma as well as […]
Danica Patrick could be facing the final races of her NASCAR career
Chuck Burton/AP DOVER, Del. (AP) — Danica Patrick was the darling of Daytona before she put on a helmet. Patrick ushered in the 2013 season accompanied by hype perhaps no other NASCAR rookie had ever faced: Her love life, Super Bowl ads and racy photo shoots were trendy themes that generated more enthusiasm than her […]
‘Stand for anthem or get out of town’: NASCAR stands firm against #TakeAKnee
NASCAR owners are taking a firm stance against the ‘Take a knee’ anthem protests which escalated across the NFL in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tweets on the issue on Sunday. The gesture was started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick last season as a demonstration against police brutality. Trump reignited […]
NASCAR owners side with Trump, say they will fire drivers who protest national anthem
Jerry Markland/Getty Images After nearly universal push-back against President Donald Trump’s criticism of NFL players who protest during the national anthem, one sport is siding with commander in chief — NASCAR. Several team owners said they would come down hard on any drivers who did not stand during the national anthem. That included NASCAR legend Richard […]
Donuts On Your Infield! Chevy Announces 2018 NASCAR Camaro ZL1
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Donuts on Your Infield! Chevy Announces 2018 NASCAR Camaro ZL1
– With the Chevrolet SS off to the great big scrapyard in the Australian sky, Chevy needed a new nameplate to feature in NASCAR, and apparently a regressive step to the front-drive Malibu or Impala wasn’t going to make the cut. As such, they’ve whipped up a Camaro ZL1 for competition in the biggest league of […]
Chevy Camaro ZL1 to replace Chevy SS in NASCAR next year
Since 2014, the Chevrolet SS has been the face of GM in NASCAR’s top-flight series. The SS may be dead, but Chevy is far from finished with NASCAR racing. Today in Detroit, the automaker finally revealed the replacement for the SS, the 2018 Camaro ZL1 NASCAR Cup Car. GM Executive Vice President of Global Product […]
Chart shows just how dominant Kyle Larson has been during the 2017 NASCAR season
Larson has two wins this season, fewer than both Martin Truex, Jr. (3) and Jimmie Johnson (3). But those two wins don’t do justice to just how dominant Larson has been all season. Larson finished second this past weekend in New Hampshire, despite starting the race at the back of the pack due to an […]
Memorial Day weekend means F1, the Indy 500, NASCAR, and the Nürburgring 24
Enlarge (credit: Icon Sportswire/Shaun Botterill/Brian Lawdermilk/BMW) As we prepare to head into Memorial Day weekend, there’s a bumper crop of wheel-to-wheel action on offer for the motorsports fan. Both IndyCar and Formula 1 have their biggest races of the year this Sunday, NASCAR has its 600-mile race at Charlotte, and over in Germany hundreds of […]
