Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been on a media tour since winning Sunday’s Daytona 500. Now he must refocus with races in Phoenix and Las Vegas coming up.
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By the time Daytona 500 winner finished with media responsibilities, it was 3 a.m., and his crew was “out of spirits” But they found some more.
That Kyle Busch won a truck series race was hardly unusual. It was his 36th victory in those pick-’em-up trucks. Busch the Younger also has thanked his sponsors 63 times after winning Nationwide series races.
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.”
Before the gentlemen start their engines for the Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, before the announcers tell TV viewers to “crank it up” after coming back from a Chevy commercial — even before Kyle Busch makes another driver mad by passing in a place where one is not supposed to pass — somebody must first sing the national anthem.
Dylan Kwasniewski will compete in the Nationwide Series this season, becoming one of four Las Vegans to drive in one of NASCAR’s top two tiers. Kwasniewski, 18, will drive the No. 31 Chevrolet for Turner Scott Motorsports.