First Las Vegas NASCAR Cup Series winner Mark Martin to become inaugural member of LVMS Speedway Legends program.
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Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch of Las Vegas made it official Tuesday — he’s leaving Joe Gibbs Racing to drive for veteran car owner Richard Childress.
Noah Gragson drove from last place to as high as fifth in his qualifying race for the Daytona 500 on Thursday, but the Las Vegan was taken out in a pileup with four laps left.
For a few hours Monday, Kurt Busch and Deryk Engelland made like Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in the movies to call attention to the Sept. 16 South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The name on his birth document says Rufus Parnell Jones. The name in all those auto racing Halls of Fame just says “Parnelli.” Well, it probably says “Jones,” too. But it wouldn’t have to.
Danica Patrick takes the high road after NASCAR legend Richard Petty says she was capable of winning a Sprint Cup race only “if everybody else stayed home.”
Guys helped each other out during the flatbed trailer era of auto racing. It wasn’t so cutthroat then, and you could walk around the pits with a pack of Marlboros rolled up in the sleeve of your T-shirt, and nobody said anything. This is why I think Tom Pfundstein could have raced in those days.