With a 1.3 rating and 2.14 million viewers, final TV numbers for the inaugural South Point 400 were slightly down from last year’s playoff race at Chicagoland Speedway (1.4, 2.31) which it replaced on the NASCAR schedule.
Ron Kantowski
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Ron Kantowski is a sports columnist and covers auto racing for the Review-Journal. He has won multiple writing awards and in 2016 was named Nevada Sportswriter of the Year. Prior to beginning a long career in Las Vegas sports journalism, Kantowski attended Western New Mexico University in Silver City, N.M., where he played for the baseball team. He is a native of Whiting, Ind.
Unless it is George Foreman and his grills or the woman who plays Flo for Progressive Insurance, is there anybody who has appeared in more television commercials than Dale Earnhardt Jr.?
Jose Luis Sanchez Sola didn’t make it to the end of the Las Vegas Lights FC’s first season. He resigned Tuesday with six matches left.
Heat? What heat was that asked Kyle Larson, the second-place finisher in Sunday’s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
A crowd estimated at 45,000 watched Brad Keselowski win the inaugural South Point 400, marking the first time that NASCAR had visited the Las Vegas Motor Speedway twice in the same year.
Red-hot Brad Keselowski held onto the lead after a late red-flag situation to win Sunday’s chaotic, crash-filled South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
There was no master plan, no call from the NASCAR hauler for Dale Earnhardt Jr. to make a smooth transition to the broadcast booth and ease into retirement the way he would ease into the lead at Daytona Speedway.
Ross Chastain led six times for 180 of the 200 laps and won all three race stages en route to his first Xfinity victory that wasn’t as easy as it might appear in the box score.
Daytona 500 winner Austin Dillon thinks he has figured out how to make Sunday’s South Point 400 and the other NASCAR playoff races more compelling in light of the season-long dominance of Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and reigning Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. — stock car racing’s so-called “Big 3.”
Grant Enfinger survived three attempts at a green-white-checkered overtime finish and a red flag for a multitruck crash to win the caution-plagued World of Westgate 200 on Friday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
It was hot and slick during Friday’s pole day qualifying for the inaugural South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with That Jones Boy, as it now reads on Erik Jones’ race car, being the hottest and slickest of all.
NASCAR co-points leader Kyle Busch of Las Vegas and pit road reporter Kelli Stavast, who moved here seven years ago, spent Wednesday driving around the valley visiting Las Vegas places near and dear to the racer.
Despite being two of stock car racing’s premier drivers and former series champions, Kyle and Kurt Busch are a combined 1-for-31 on their hometown oval at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
When Brendan Gaughan learned there would be a race featuring full-bodied NASCAR stock cars at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway dirt track, it was time to step out of semi-retirement again.
Noah Gragson and Riley Herbst of Las Vegas have done well to position themselves for fast ascensions up the NASCAR ladder.