Former NASCAR truck series competitor T.J. Clark helps keep Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s grassroots racing alive as a homage to his racing son, who died in 2006 at age 19.
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The NASCAR Cup Series returns to scenic Road America, the site of a major victory for retired Las Vegas racer Brendan Gaughan.
Las Vegas racer Brendan Gaughan said that getting a second chance in the Cup Series was more than he expected from a NASCAR career spanning more than 20 years.
By Friday morning most spectator sections for Saturday night’s AMA Supercross season final at Sam Boyd Stadium were sold out as dirt bike racing continues to show its staying power in Las Vegas.
Bubba Wallace is just 24, but being the first full-time African-American driver in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup series since Wendell Scott in 1971 isn’t lost on him in terms of the message his rise imparts to so many.
Only 39 cars and drivers have entered Sunday’s Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A full field is now 40 cars. Last year it was 43. Participation numbers are down. They were down last year, too. Should NASCAR’s fireproof coveralls be all in a bunch? Yes. And no.
When you perform a Google search for Erik Jones, seven photos pop up on the search title box. Six are of brightly colored artwork. One is of a youngster sporting a perfect smile and black fireproof coveralls adorned with Toyota patches.
A lot of the NASCAR’s traditional followers believe that Kyle Busch’s recent success is nothing more than a conspiracy manipulated by NASCAR to turn Busch into a storyline during the dog days of the baseball season and before NFL behemoths return to training camp.
Son of former Formula One champion to drive in Rallycross season finale at The LINQ.
With all respect due Woody Hayes, Bob Knight or Russell Crowe; with a dubious appreciation of Mike Tyson, for taking a chunk out of Evander Holyfield’s ear; or of Alec Baldwin, for taking a chunk out of his daughter’s rear end, I might have witnessed the ultimate meltdown at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring on Thursday night.