It was the one and only Vegas Grand Prix, and if the 2007 Championship Auto Racing Teams race contested on downtown Las Vegas streets was easily forgotten, one no longer can say the same about the guy who won it.
Motor Sports
Kyle Busch led 377 of 400 laps in a dominating Coca-Cola 600 run at Charlotte Motor Speedway to finally break through with a points-race victory at the only NASCAR Cup track that had eluded him.
Henderson car owner Sam Schmidt and his No. 1 driver, James Hinchcliffe of Canada, again became a major story of Indianapolis 500 qualifications weekend. For the second time, it wasn’t in the way either had hoped.
For the second straight year, 19-year-old Riley Herbst has been named to the NASCAR Next list identifying young drivers thought to be on the fast track to stock car racing stardom.
Is this just another “one of them racin’ deals,” as the stock car racing announcers say on TV? Or are reports that NASCAR may be for sale something more than that?
The false story claimed that Busch shot himself at his North Carolina home at 11:46 a.m. Monday.
Kevin Harvick dominated a race interrupted by rain and drove to his Cup Series-high fourth victory of the season Sunday at Dover International Speedway.
Spencer Gallagher was on top of the world Saturday after winning his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race. On Wednesday, the 28-year-old Las Vegan was suspended from NASCAR for violating its substance abuse policy.