Bruton Smith, 88, was elected into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Wednesday. He is the executive chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns Las Vegas Motor Speedway and seven other tracks.
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Veteran motor sports handicapper Micah Roberts analyzes the field for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Coverage begins at 6 p.m. on FS1 (Cox Cable 329).
The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will celebrate Armed Forces Day by paying tribute to local armed services members and veterans on Saturday.
Saturday night’s race is the first All-Star event on FS1. To be perfectly blunt, the All-Star race has always been a bit of a loser on TV, especially on cable channels with fewer households than the networks.
Kyle Busch made it official on Tuesday morning, that he’s returning to NASCAR sooner than expected after suffering a compound fracture to his right leg and breaking his left foot during a grinding crash the day before the Daytona 500 in February.
Less than three months after breaking his right leg and left foot in a crash at Daytona International Speedway, Kyle Busch will be climbing back into his familiar No. 18 car this weekend.
On the same day investigative findings about the Patriots under-inflating footballs were disclosed and everybody went nuts, NASCAR, as only coincidence would dictate, rendered a final ruling about one of its top teams under-inflating tires. Exactly nobody went nuts.
Driver ratings for the SpongeBob SquarePants 400 at Kansas Speedway on Saturday in Kansas City, Kan. Coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. for FS1 (329), with the race scheduled to start at 4:44.
Ryan Dungey made his 100th career start Saturday night, and he then easily raced to victory in the 450 class Monster Energy AMA Supercross finale before a crowd of 35,241 at Sam Boyd Stadium. Dungey had wrapped up the season championship before coming to Las Vegas.
Driver ratings for the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala. Coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. Sunday on Fox (5), and the race begins at 10:15.
Ryan Dungey wrapped up the Monster Energy Supercross 450 class championship on April 11, taking out all the drama with three races remaining in the season. Dungey then did the same in the season finale Saturday night at Sam Boyd Stadium, easily racing to his eighth victory of the season in what also was his 100th career start.
Arenacross is at the South Point Arena on Friday, and that sport is the feeder system for Supercross, which concludes its season Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Kurt Busch turned in a dominating performance in the Toyota Owners 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway on Sunday, leading 291 of 400 laps on his way to his first win of 2015.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Food City 500 begins at 10:16 a.m. today at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. Matt Kenseth will start from the pole position.
Kyle Busch met with reporters for the first time since his accident at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 21 and gave a fascinating, detailed account of the wreck and his thought processes during the seconds before he hit the wall.