A list of driver appearances for NASCAR’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Motor Sports
Those NASCAR racers won’t be driving 55 and neither should you. Cabo Wabo Cantina at the Miracle Mile Shops is featuring the Can’t Drive 55, a blend of Cabo Wabo blanco tequila, Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, vodka, gin, four fruit juices and a touch of amaretto Disaronno for $15. It’ll be available all weekend, as will beer buckets and shot specials. And on Thursday, you can quaff while watching the Hauler Parade from Cabo Wabo’s Strip-side patio.
It doesn’t happen every year that the driver who wins the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway goes on to be toasted during NASCAR Champion’s Week here in December.
The man of the hour — of a lot of hours — in Las Vegas this week will be Martin Truex Jr., who held off Kyle Busch of Las Vegas to win his first Cup Series championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway Nov. 19.
There are people who liken John Force and his race teams to the Yankees and baseball, IBM and the stock market, the Carrington family and the TV oil business.
Henderson team owner Sam Schmidt says sleek IndyCar design will rekindle sport’s past at a less expensive price while not sacrificing speed.
In keeping with the pedal-to-the-metal theme of Memorial Day Weekend, Las Vegas drivers, teams, races play a big part in annual celebration of speed.
Brendan Gaughan and the Busch brothers comment on popular driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s impending retirement from NASCAR.
There is likely only three chances left this season to bet against UNLV, which has lost nine straight games while going 1-7-1 against the spread and has covered only two of their last 14 games.
Daytona 500 champion Kurt Busch will be back behind the wheel and on the race track again on Sunday, but first, he gets to celebrate a little more.
Kurt Busch, who closed as a 28-1 long shot, helped bail out Las Vegas sports books, which would’ve taken a big hit had Chase Elliott won.
The carnage that was Sunday’s 59th running of the Daytona 500 was devastating when it came to twisted metal, bone-dry fuel tanks and broken hearts. Take the 3-1 betting favorite, Dale Earnhardt Jr., for instance.
When Mexican driver Daniel Suarez made the jump to the Xfinity Series, he didn’t know the characteristics of the car, the racetracks or the aerodynamic package. Team owner Joe Gibbs said to give Kyle Busch a call.
The NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship is a six-race, playoff-type format that is supposed to provide drama at the end of the season. Instead, it has mostly provided Antron Brown with a platform for displaying dominance.
Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch, drivers of very fast stock cars for the Joe Gibbs Racing team, finished 28th, 29th and 30th on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. This was by design.
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