Sprint — whose new boss is a soccer guy — is latest sponsor to defect from NASCAR. The turmoil continues as many tracks are downsizing the great speedways, so TV viewers don’t see empty seats.
Motor Sports
NASCAR champ Kevin Harvick grew up wanting to be Rick Mears, the four-time Indy 500 champ from Bakersfield. “I was fortunate to have grown up in a racing town,” Harvick says. “It’s a place that has dirt tracks, asphalt, ovals, go-kart tracks, drag strip … always well supported.”
Rodeo cowboys usually don’t talk trash. Unless you get them behind the wheel on a racetrack. Then they will talk more trash than a mob boss when the feds are tapping wires.
I chatted with Matthew Nelson for nearly an hour the other day, and he barely mentioned music. All he wanted to talk about was cars, classic cars and muscle cars and racing cars.
Son of former Formula One champion to drive in Rallycross season finale at The LINQ.
Young Christ Trickle won Oct. 4 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring in just his third start in a Super Late Model stock car. The 14-year-old driver has a heavy right foot and a famous name.
The Washington Nationals tied for the best record in baseball this year, and they’re out of the playoffs, too — but at least they were knocked out by another playoff team.
It has been 49 years since James Dean, one of the first actor-turned racers, died in a crash while chasing his need for speed in California.
Parker Nicklin, 18, becomes development driver for Las Vegas Indy 500 car owner.
In the NASCAR hierarchy and chain of command, the Camping World Truck Series that made its annual stop at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night is considered Double A in scope, style and substance. It’s sort of like the Texas League in baseball.
Some 20 years after he nearly quit racing, veteran driver returns to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for NASCAR truck series Rhino Linings 350.
Only 16 drivers can win the title as the Chase for the Sprint Cup begins Sunday in Chicago, including Las Vegas drivers Kurt and Kyle Busch. The experts don’t give them a chance, but the best teams don’t always win in a playoff format like NASCAR instituted this season.
“Big crash turn 4 … Charlie … Aleshin.” It was 7:48 p.m. when my cellphone buzzed Friday. Crumpled race cars still were smoldering in the middle of the track at Fontana, Calif.
Kyle Busch finished fifth in Saturday’s NASCAR Truck Series race in Michigan. It was his 500th NASCAR start in a Toyota.
If the Indy 500 is the ultimate test of man and machine, the 13 Hours of Las Vegas for $500 race cars was the ultimate test of man, machine and a limited budget.
