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Carl Edwards Homestead-Miami Post Race Press Conference
Carl Edwards battled to a second place finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale, and wound up tied with race winner Tony Stewart in the series standings. With the championship tie breaker being number of wins, Tony Stewart’s series leading five wins was more than enough to relegate Edwards to a second place finish. Carl met with members of the media after the race. Full transcript. Kerry Tharp: Carl, terrific season, terrific effort tonight. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Stewart Backs Up His Mantra – Win the Race, Win the Chase
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Tony Stewart won the biggest game of winner-take-all in the history of NASCAR racing. Rebounding from a succession of setbacks, Stewart took the checkered flag in Sunday’s rain-interrupted Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship in a tiebreaker over race runner-up Carl Edwards. With four new tires to Edwards’ two—thanks to a strategic gamble that paid off when rain hit the 1.5-mile … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Sprint Cup
Stenhouse clinches Nationwide title as Brad Keselowski wins at Homestead
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Polesitter Brad Keselowski may have won Saturday’s Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but Roush Fenway Racing had a better night, winning two Nationwide Series championships in one race. Keselowski held off a furious charge from series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on the final lap to secure his fifth victory of the season and the 17th of his career. Third-place finisher Carl Edwards clinched the owners’ championship for Roush Fenway, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Nationwide Series
Video – Who do NASCAR drivers thing will win the Sprint Cup championship
During Friday’s media availability at Homestead-Miami Speedway, NASCAR drivers Kevin Harvick, Danica Patrick, Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson talk about the Ford 400 and who they like in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup, video
Dillon wins truck title despite valiant run by race winner Sauter
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Austin Dillon withstood a strong challenge from race winner Johnny Sauter to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship in Friday night’s Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. NASCAR called the event with 15 laps left with Sauter in the lead and Dillon in 10th place, giving Dillon, 21, the youngest champion in series history, a six-point edge over Sauter in the final series standings. Dillon is the first … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Truck Series
NASCAR committed to breaking up tandem racing
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — During a recent test at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR experimented with competition changes designed to hinder the two-car drafts that have become the norm at restrictor-plate superspeedways. On Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France made the sanctioning body’s most definitive statement on the subject to date—one that is certain to please the majority of competitors and fans. “We would prefer to eliminate tandem racing in the manner it exists today,” … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Jeff Gordon leaning toward Edwards but pulling for Stewart
HOMESTEAD, Fla.—In handicapping the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, do you favor the driver with a dominant track record at Homestead-Miami Speedway, or do you go with the guy who’s a four-time winner in the Chase? Do you bet on the driver with a three-point lead or on the driver who has trimmed his deficit to Edwards from 24 to three points over the past four races? That’s a tough call, says Jeff Gordon, a four-time champion in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Brian France: Drivers know where the line is
By Reid Spencer,Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla.—In the aftermath of disciplinary action against Kyle Busch and a not-so-secret fine levied against Brad Keselowski, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France insisted that drivers know the dividing line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior, whether it involves driving or talking. NASCAR parked Busch for the Nationwide and Sprint Cup races at Texas two weeks ago, after Busch wrecked Camping World Truck Series championship contender Ron Hornaday Jr. under … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Ron Hornaday Jr. to drive for Joe Denette Motorsports in 2012
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Four-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday Jr. will drive for Joe Denette Motorsports in 2012, the driver and owner Joe Denette announced Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The agreement with Denette—a one-year deal with an option year—will keep Hornaday in a Chevrolet and will reunite him with crew chief Jeff Hensley, who started the 2011 season with Hornaday at Kevin Harvick Inc. but finished the year … Read entire article »
Filed under: Truck Series
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