Austin Dillon brought the No. 3 car back to NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series, and said the reaction have been overwhelmingly positive. He also once played in the Little League World Series.
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NASCAR didn’t just make some tweaks to its playoff and qualifying formats during the offseason.
When NASCAR announced it was changing the rules again, to create a winner-take-all, one-race showdown for the Sprint Cup championship, there was an uproar. A very loud uproar. It sounded like the flyover before the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway before the government shutdown, when there still were flyovers.
Matt Kenseth won last year’s Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on his 41st birthday. He held off a late charge from Kasey Kahne.
Here are the top 10 driver ratings for the Sprint Cup Kobalt 400 before practice begins Thursday:
Four Las Vegas drivers compete in NASCAR’s top two series, the most from any city. All four are enjoying careers on the upswing.
NASCAR fans lined Las Vegas Boulevard to watch hauler trucks on Wednesday during their annual parade up the Las Vegas Strip to kick off NASCAR festivities.
Former Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco went on the Letterman show to discuss having both arms and legs blown off by a roadside bomb in Iraq — and how NASCAR driver Kurt Busch of Las Vegas lifted his spirits at the Daytona 500.
Chris Powell, president and general manager of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, had good reason to be relaxed. LVMS has become so adept at welcoming NASCAR and the 100,000-plus fans every March that little has to be changed from previous years.