Archive for August, 2010

NASCAR By The Numbers

NASCAR Number By Bill Marx Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 31, 2010) 3: Drivers who have run enough miles in Cup races at Atlanta Motor Speedway to circle the earth. Richard Petty, Ricky Rudd and Bill Elliott have driven more than 26,000 miles at Atlanta; the circumference of the earth at the equator is [...]

Rowdy.com Podcast – August 31

On today’s show: Rick Mast talks tires at Atlanta. Kevin Harvick is not a fan of Carl Edwards. Carl Edwards loves Atlanta. To listen to the podcast, please click here.

NASCAR show to debut on BET

NASCAR’s ‘Changing Lanes’ premiers Wednesday on BET By Michael Smith Special to the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 31, 2010) The show is billed as an opportunity to change the face of NASCAR. Ten blacks, Hispanics and women, all living in one house, competing for a job as a driver in a sport that [...]

Pruett-Rojas clinch Grand-Am title for Ganassi

Special to the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 28, 2010) MONTREAL—Car owner Chip Ganassi claimed another major victory Saturday when Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas won the Montreal 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, clinching the Rolex Sports Car Series’ team championship in the Daytona Prototype class. Pruett and Rojas set a single-season series record [...]

Three-wide with Osborne, Labbe and Kerr

By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 28, 2010) Three Sprint Cup crew chiefs—Bob Osborne (Carl Edwards)  Slugger Labbe (Paul Menard) and Frank Kerr (Marcos Ambrose)—answer three questions. Sporting News: How much have you had to change your setups since NASCAR switched from the rear wing to the blade spoiler in March? Osborne: [...]

NASCAR By The Numbers

NASCAR Number By Bill Marx Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 28, 2010) 47.8: Percentage of laps Kyle Busch has run in the Camping World Truck Series this year in which he has been in the lead. Busch has started nine of the 17 races and led 649 of the 1,359 laps he has run. Despite missing [...]

NASCAR By The Numbers

NASCAR Number By Bill Marx Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 27, 2010) 91: Consecutive Nationwide Series races Brad Keselowski has been running at the finish, by far the most among active drivers. Steve Wallace is next with 16 races.

Off the track with Trevor Bayne

From the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 27, 2010) Sporting News goes behind the scenes—and off the track—with Nationwide Series driver Trevor Bayne. My first car was … a BMW 325. It was my dad’s. I got my license three years ago, so it was a few years old. My dream car is … [...]