It was late Wednesday morning at “NASCAR Goes West” in the Hollywood Hills, and a gentle breeze was wafting into the Petersen Automotive Museum parking deck just off Wilshire Boulevard from the San Gabriel Mountains in California.
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It said #nascargoeswest, which is what the stock car racing sanctioning body called its first media day here to promote races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway and Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
They’ll be telling good ol’ boy stories about Jerry Cook and Bobby Isaac and Terry Labonte and Curtis Turner at the Charlotte (N.C.) Convention Center, because tonight is NASCAR Hall of Fame night, and those are the lead foots being inducted.
Tony Stewart has a cantankerous nature, which until 2014 mostly had served him well, in the manner that having a cantankerous nature served the great A.J. Foyt well.
To say NASCAR’s Brad Keselowski is a breath of fresh air would be accurate, but only if the fresh air was a hurricane or a tropical storm.
In a town that prides itself on the ultimate VIP experience, Las Vegas Motor Speedway is rolling out a one-day, white-glove, top-shelf $3,500 ticket for its NASCAR race in early March.
At a little past 11 a.m. Wednesday, a red pickup truck pulled out from the shadow of the Richard Petty Terrace and made a left-hand turn through the infield tunnel at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
In baseball, they used to say you can’t tell the players without a scorecard. In NASCAR, you can’t tell the drivers without a paint scheme placard.
The Review-Journal Sports will unveil some new features beginning this week. Those changes began in Sunday’s print edition with columnist Ron Kantowski debuting his Las Vegas Insider. He will report on the sports people that make up the city.
Although days of the week seem to get “blackened” more often than a salmon fillet during shopping season, it definitely was a Black Tuesday for Brendan Gaughan, the longtime NASCAR driver from Las Vegas not named Busch.