Motor Racing Digest

  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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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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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 December 11th, 2012 There is no “off-season” for NASCAR.  Today, NASCAR begins two days of testing at Charlotte Motor Speedway, allowing teams their first opportunity to test the 2013 “Gen 6″ cars.  The “Gen 6″ car is the replacement for NASCAR’s “Car of Tomorrow” which brings a number [...]

Posted: December 11th, 2012
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Track News.
Tags: 2013 Testing, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Joe Gibbs Racing, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, NASCAR
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 October 13, 2012 Clint Bowyer played the fuel-mileage game to win the Bank of America 500 Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The win is Boywer’s third of the season and first in the Chase. Denny Hamlin finished second and Jimmie Johnson was third, with both championship contenders [...]

Posted: October 13th, 2012
Categories: Featured, Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Bank of America 500, Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin, Martin Truex Jr.
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Posted by: Candice Corrigan, follow @candicecorrigan October 13, 2012 Duty called, and Joey answered yet again. For the eighth time in just 19 starts this season, Joey Logano visited Gatorade Victory Lane in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Logano lead 62 laps in Friday night’s Dollar General 300 to bring home his first win at Charlotte [...]

Posted: October 13th, 2012
Categories: Featured, Nascar Nationwide Series, Results.
Tags: Adam Stevens, Austin Dillon, Brad Keselowski, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dollar General 300, Elliott Sadler, Joey Logano, Mike Bliss, Nascar Nationwide Series, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
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Posted by: Candice Corrigan, follow @candicecorrigan October 11, 2012 Sliding into turn 3 at 202 mph and laughing all the way, Greg Biffle broke the track record during qualifying on Thursday night for Saturday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Biffle’s time of 27.877 beat out the previous track record of 27.948  set [...]

Posted: October 11th, 2012
Categories: Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Results.
Tags: Bank of America 500, Bobby Labonte, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Mark Martin, Matt Puccia, Regan Smith, Ryan Newman
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 October 11, 2012 Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the next two Sprint Cup races after suffering a concussion during last Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway. Hendrick Motorsports released a statement on Thursday morning that Earnhardt will not be behind the wheel of the No. 88 Amp Chevrolet for [...]

Posted: October 11th, 2012
Categories: Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Brad Keselowski, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kansas Speedway, Regan Smith
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  Posted by: Dave Thompson, follow @phillyfan17 July 18, 2012 Earnhardt to Drive One Lucky Fan Around Charlotte Motor Speedway, Courtesy of Lionel NASCAR Collectables and the Racing Collectables Club of America CONCORD, N.C. (July 18, 2012) – Ask a group of NASCAR(r) fans whom they’d most like to “ride shotgun” with at a race [...]

Posted: July 18th, 2012
Categories: Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Tags: Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Lionel NASCAR Collectables, Racing Collectables Club of America
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