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About 50 students from Hyde Park Middle School Academy of Science and Mathematics got what is likely a once-in-a-lifetime experience at the Pennzoil 400 NASCAR race Sunday.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Ron Kantowski breaks down the three stages of Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Kevin Harvick led 209 laps en route to a dominating victory in the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway was packed with excitement Sunday for the Pennzoil 400.
Saturday’s NASCAR action at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was full of engines revving and winds blowing.
The record book shows that what happens in Las Vegas also tends to happen in Homestead, Florida, where the NASCAR Cup championship is decided at season’s end.
Last season, the GMS race team founded by Las Vegan Maury Gallagher dipped a toe in exploratory Cup Series waters. The goal remains to take a deeper plunge.
Kyle Larson led a race-high 142 laps at the 22nd annual Boyd Gaming 300 on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He now has nine victories in the Xfinity Series.
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.
Las Vegas native Kyle Busch won his 50th NASCAR Truck Series race by finishing first in the inaugural Stratosphere 200, becoming the first driver to win a Truck, Xfinity and Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Most NASCAR fans are up to speed with the drivers who run up front and win races. But who keeps up with those who finish last? Lastcar.info, that’s who.
Ryan Blaney, who joined Roger Penske’s high-profile team during the offseason, won the pole position for Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 with a speed of 191.489 mph.
Work wrapped up Friday on a $33.8 million project to widen Interstate 15 between Craig Road and Speedway Boulevard in North Las Vegas, the Nevada Department of Transportation said.
The biggest story of the offseason was NASCAR’s decision to promote a group of young drivers trying to fill the shoes of recently retired ones such as Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Danica Patrick.
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