Motor Racing Digest

Posted By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 23, 2013 The new Gen6 Sprint Cup Series car has proven to be fast. Very fast. For the seventh time in the 2013 season, a driver has set a new track record en route to winning the pole. Denny Hamlin accomplished that feat during Thursday night [...]

Posted: May 23rd, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Charlotte Motor Speedway, Clint Bowyer, Coca-Cola 600, Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kurt Busch, Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Sprint Cup Series
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  Posted By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 22, 2013 Courtesy of NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 22, 2013) – NASCAR announced today the inductees who will comprise the 2014 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The five-person group – the fifth in NASCAR Hall of Fame history – [...]

Posted: May 22nd, 2013
Categories: Featured.
Tags: Dale Jarrett, fireball roberts, Jack Ingram, Maurice Petty, NASCAR Hall of Fame, tim flock
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Posted By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 22, 2013 When race fans think of Memorial Day weekend in the motorsports world, one thing immediately comes to mind and that is NASCAR taking to the track at Charlotte Motor Speedway for their traditional May race weekend that many consider to be the greatest weekend [...]

Posted: May 22nd, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Austin Dillon, Brian Vickers, Carl Edwards, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Coca-Cola 600, history 300, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, kasey kahne, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Nationwide Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Regan Smith, Sam Hornish Jr., Trevor Bayne
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Written By: Brian Eberly, @beberly18 May 21, 2013 Winners Jimmie Johnson – Johnson won Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race for his fourth victory in 12 starts, breaking a tie with greats Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt for most all-time wins in the event.  He became only the second driver to win back-to-back all-star races, joining [...]

Posted: May 21st, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: All-Star Race, Brad Keselowski, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Clint Bowyer, Danica Patrick, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, NASCAR, Sprint
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 May 18, 2013 Jimmie Johnson became NASCAR’s first four-time winner of the Sprint All-Star Race on Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Johnson needed just two laps to pass teammate Kasey Kahne after the restart for the final 10-lap shootout then coasted to victory for the second consecutive [...]

Posted: May 18th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, kasey kahne, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Sprint Cup All-Star Race
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Written by: Lauren Perkins-Follow @perkylauren May 18, 2013 In 1985, NASCAR made the decision to join the ranks of other professional sports and implemented an “All-Star” race, which at the time was called The Winston. The race was to be held in Charlotte, the “home base” for most in the NASCAR world, and would take [...]

Posted: May 18th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: 1993 Coca Cola 600, 1993 Winston, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt 20th anniversary Charlotte win, NASCAR Sprint All Star Race, The Winston
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    Written by Stephen Conley May 17th, 2013 Seven starts in a year and a half and you go winless? Not typically a big deal, unless your name is Kyle Busch and you typically win seven races in a week at times thru your career. After four weeks off for the second time this [...]

Posted: May 17th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Camping World Truck Series.
Tags: brendan gaughan, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jeb Burton, Kyle Busch
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May 17, 2013 Welcome to the seventh edition of Katie’s Komment’s, a place to find the latest NASCAR news and my opinion on it! All comments are my views only but feel free to leave your own! Denny Hamlin’s Return: Denny Hamlin returned to the No.11 Fed-Ex Toyota full time this last weekend at Darlington [...]

Posted: May 17th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Danica Patrick, Indy 500, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Sprint All-Star Race, Sprint Showdown, Tony Stewart
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Daytona International Speedway will offer a special ticket package for the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event on Saturday night, July 6 at the “World Center of Racing”  that includes a question and answer session with No. 88 National Guard driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. The No. 88 Package, available starting at [...]

Posted: May 16th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Track News.
Tags: COKE ZERO 400, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona International Speedway, Nascar Sprint Cup Series
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Posted By: David Morgan – Follow on Twitter at @damorgan86  May 15, 2013 After tackling “The Lady in Black” at Darlington last weekend, NASCAR heads home for a two week homestand at Charlotte Motor Speedway, with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series taking center stage during All Star Weekend. Sprint Cup Series [...]

Posted: May 15th, 2013
Categories: Featured, Nascar Camping World Truck Series, Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jeb Burton, Jimmie Johnson, Joey Logano, Justin Lofton, Kyle Busch, Matt Crafton, Matt Kenseth, Nascar Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR Sprint All Star Race, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Ron Hornaday Jr.
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