The Finish Line

Skinner gets pole in Kentucky

51-year-old Mike Skinner wheeled his Toyota Tundra to win the Keystone Light Pole Award for The Built Ford Tough 225 presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers. Skinner ran a lap of 31.487 seconds at 171.499 mph to get his 45th career pole in his 167th career Craftsman Truck Series start. This is Skinner’s third pole [...]

NASCAR Season Midway Review

Well, Kyle Busch capped off the season’s midway point at Daytona with his 10th career win and his sixth this season. NASCAR’s premier series is in their first full year with the Car of Today, and it has undergone some criticism. It actually got so out of hand that NASCAR President Mike Helton called a mandatory [...]

Carpentier gets the pole

After a hour and a half long rain delay, Patrick Carpentier gets his first pole in his 16th career race. His time of 29.349 seconds kicked Bobby Labonte to the outside of row 1. He and Labonte were the only ones to break 129 miles per hour. The track record of 28.5609 seconds (133.357 mph) set [...]

Martin to Hendrick?

Sources are reporting that Casey Mears was told last week that he would not be returning to Hendrick Motorsports next year. It was also reported that Mark Martin was leaving DEI. Now, we have learned from ESPN.com that Mark Martin will make one more full-time run at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver Championship with [...]

Ambrose quickest in first Sprint Cup practice

Marcos Ambrose was the owner of the fastest lap after the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice today, clocking in with 78.087 seconds. Ambrose is driving the 21 car for Wood Brothers Racing this weekend at Infineon. Jimmie Johnson was second fastest with a 78.104, team-mate Jeff Gordon was third fastest with 78.123. Kevin Harvick and [...]

Skinner fastest in Final Truck Practice

Driver of the number 5 Toyota Tundra, Mike Skinner, set the pace for the final practice session at The Milwaukee Mile for the Camping World RV Sales 200 with a time of 29.969, a little over one-tenth of a second faster than second fastest — Jack Sprague. Ron Hornaday Jr., who was fastest in the first [...]

Hornaday Jr fastest in first NCTS practice

Ron Hornaday Jr. ran 35 laps, and recorded the fields fastest lap on his fifth lap, with a time of 30.294 seconds. Brent Raymer ran the most laps in the session with 62. Hornaday was 0.127 seconds faster then second fastest, Jack Sprague. Mike Skinner was third fastest, and Erik Darnell and Johnny Benson [...]

Kvapil will have a sponsor at Infineon

Today, Team Yates Racing announced that Travis Kvapil and the number 28 team will have the California Highway Patrol on the hood for this week’s race at Infineon. The Number 28 CHP will sport a paint scheme the resembles on of the CHP patrol cars, and the website www.chp.ca.gov. “I think this is a very cool sponsorship [...]

Almirola to Make Cup Road Race Debut

24-year-old Aric Almirola will be making his first ever Sprint Cup Series start at a road course this week in the DEI Number 8 Chevrolet. As vetern Mark Martin is taking the Infineon weekend off this weekend. “I’m not going to sugar coat the degree of difficulty — it’s going to be a tough race,” said [...]

Richard Petty makes big announcements

Hopefully a step in the right direction for Petty Enterprises today, as the announcement of an investor, signing of a veteran driver to a four-year extension, and a new CEO. Today, in front of the full media center in Charlotte, NC, the Pettys announced three big changes. The most anticipated was the signing of veteran Bobby Labonte [...]