How drivers with Las Vegas ties performed in the various NASCAR series.
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Friday night at Orleans Arena, Carey Hart will be honored for his accomplishments with induction into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame. He will be joined by drag racing team owner Ken Black, the Herbst family, which has enjoyed success in off-road racing, golfer Chris Riley and UNLV baseball coach Tim Chambers.
Ken Black likes to think of himself as a builder. It can be a house. Or a dragster. The man is hands-on in everything he does.
While Kurt Busch’s bid to complete “The Double” may have failed with an engine failure on lap 271 of the 400-lap race, it won’t stop the former Sprint Cup champion from making another run at history.
Kurt Busch’s attempt at completing “The Double” is over after his car blew an engine late in the Coca-Cola 600.
Some Indianapolis 500 race fans didn’t need to worry about waking up early Sunday morning and joining lines of traffic to get into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — they were already in place after spending the night “glamping” within the track’s vast infield.
There’s a scene in the iconic stock-car movie “Days of Thunder” that takes place the night before the big race — the Daytona 500, if memory serves — in which Robert Duvall talks to Tom Cruise’s car. Duvall was cast as crusty crew chief Harry Hogge; Cruise as brash young driver Cole Trickle.
Kurt Busch craned his neck toward a monitor and studied the Indianapolis 500 practice results. He didn’t seem happy with his final practice speed, roughly 3 mph off the pace and not good enough in the Andretti Autosport backup he was forced into after wrecking his own, faster car this week.
Jay Beasley knew he had a lot to take in this season, and he was right. But now he comes off his best finish, a fourth-place showing Saturday in the Casey’s General Stores 150 at Newton, Iowa. So maybe the Las Vegan is beginning to show real promise in his rookie season in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East circuit.