Joe Gibbs won three Super Bowl titles in the NFL and has won four NASCAR Sprint Cup championships, but his team hasn’t won a Daytona 500 in 23 years, and his manufacturer, Toyota, never has won the race. But based on recent history in plate races and action during Daytona speedweeks, Gibbs might have his best chance to end the drought today.
Daytona 500, Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida; 10:30 a.m. today (KVUU-5); Rating Driver Odds 2015 500* Unlimited** 150s** Practice 7
While NASCAR continues reinventing itself to look like the NFL on wheels, there’s at least one area in which stock car racing seems to have inched ahead of pro football on the high side.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch won the two 60-lap/150-mile Can-Am Duel races at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday.
Sweethearts exchanging chocolates on Valentine’s Day. Pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. NBA all-stars playing matador defense. The Busch Brothers of Las Vegas racing in the Daytona 500. These are rites of February.
NASCAR is looking more like the NFL every day. First it added playoffs, and penalties for unnecessary roughness. Now it has announced a franchise system patterned after those in football and the other stick-and-ball sports.
Usually when a birth certificate is doctored for the sake of sports, it’s so a kid can play in Little League for one more season.
When the NASCAR Sprint Cup season begins later this month, Tony Stewart will not be among the drivers in the field for the Daytona 500.
NASCAR driver and co-owner Tony Stewart, one of motor racing’s biggest names, has been taken to hospital with a back injury after a non-racing vehicle accident, his Stewart-Haas Racing team said on Tuesday.
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.
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.
