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Nashville Superspeedway Won’t Host NASCAR in 2012
Dover – Nashville Superspeedway won’t play host to any NASCAR events in 2012, parent company Dover Motorsports announced Wednesday. Nashville is the third track owned by Dover Motorsports that will close or be sold in the last three years. Dover shut down its Memphis and Gateway facilities in the last two years. Memphis was later sold. A 1.33-mile concrete track located about 30 miles outside of Nashville, Nashville Superspeedway opened in 2001 and had two Nationwide Series … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Edwards overcomes error, dominates at Nashville
By Brian Citino Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LEBANON, Tenn. – Carl Edwards did not let a penalty for speeding on pit road slow him down Saturday night, as he regained position quickly and dominated the field en route to a victory at Nashville Superspeedway in the Federated Auto Parts 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race. After leading from Laps 59 to 82, Edwards made a yellow flag pit stop but approached his stall a bit too fast, and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
Austin Dillon claims truck victory at Nashville
By Brian Citino Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LEBANON, Tenn. – Austin Dillon passed Johnny Sauter with 23 laps to go and did not look back, winning Friday night’s Lucas Deep Clean 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway for his first trip to victory lane this season. Dillon, who won two races in 2010, picked up his third career win and his first since Sept. 2010 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Trailing Dillon and Sauter … Read entire article »
Filed under: Truck Series
Two-Time Outlaw Champion Richards Making His First Start at Nashville
Two-time World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Josh Richards will make his Nashville Superspeedway debut and his second career start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) in Friday’s Lucas Deep Clean 200 in the No. 18 Joy Mining Machinery Toyota Tundra. Richards is also making his debut in the No. 18 Toyota Tundra, fielded by Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM), having driven the No. 15 in his series debut at Kentucky Speedway. Joining … Read entire article »
Filed under: Truck Series
Buescher leading a youth movement in the truck series
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Can a driver spot the rest of the field a full race and still win a championship? Texan James Buescher is trying to do just that, as he leads a group of 20-somethings toward the top of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings. After starting second and finishing ninth in the season opener at Daytona, Buescher, 21, failed to qualify of the second race of the season, at Phoenix. Since … Read entire article »
Filed under: Truck Series
Sadler seeks redemption in return to Nashville
By Lee Montgomery Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Elliott Sadler could be looking to pad his NASCAR Nationwide Series points lead in Saturday’s Federated Auto Parts 300 at Nashville Superspeedway. Or he could be looking for his first victory of the season—and his first in NASCAR Sprint Cup or Nationwide competition since 2004. Or he could be looking to become the ninth different winner in a row in the Nationwide Series. Or he could be looking for his first top … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
Edwards Nashville Guitar Raises over $20,000 for Jonathan Bunting Family
CONCORD, N.C. – Carl Edwards is known for giving away his trophies from victory lane, but after winning the Nationwide race at Nashville Superspeedway last month he decided to auction off his Sam Bass-painted Gibson guitar trophy with the funds raised going to benefit the family of Roush Fenway employee Jonathan Bunting, who passed away in an automobile accident. When the auction closed late Sunday night the guitar and one of a kind Sam Bass sketch sold for $20,400. The winning bid came from Sedalia, Mo., which is located approximately 70 miles from Edwards’ hometown of Columbia, Mo. In addition to the auction proceeds, Roush Fenway employees, drivers and sponsors contributed over $30,000 to the Bunting family. “Jonathan was a hard working young man with a young family and all of … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR, Nationwide Series
Edwards to Auction-Off Nashville ‘Guitar’ Trophy in Benefit for Family of Jonathan Bunting
CONCORD, N.C.) – Roush Fenway’s Carl Edwards has accumulated quite a few trophies since joining the NASCAR circuit, but he will have a special use for the unique Sam Bass-painted Gibson guitar trophy he won with his dominating performance last weekend in Nashville. Edwards is auctioning off the famous trophy, along with a one of a kind Sam Bass sketch from victory lane, with the funds raised going to benefit the family of Roush Fenway employee Jonathan Bunting, who passed away last week in an automobile accident. “All of us at Roush Fenway felt that our performance in that race was a good way to honor Jonathan and the work he did for the company,” said Edwards. “He was a hard working young man with a young family and all of us together … Read entire article »
Filed under: NASCAR
Busch Has To Settle for Second Fiddle at Nashville
Kyle Busch did everything he could to try and win his fourth Sam Bass-designed Gibson guitar – the unique trophy awarded to race winners at Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway – but the driver of the No. 18 Z-Line Designs Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) had to settle for second fiddle when the checkered flag flew for Saturday’s Nashville 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race. The 25-year-old from Las Vegas and the Z-Line Designs crew navigated their way through early race handling issues and led three times for 39 laps in the late going. But Busch just could not hold off a dominant Carl Edwards in a spirited duel for the lead that saw the two drivers swap the first-place position over a four-lap stretch from the 188th through 191st tour around … Read entire article »
Filed under: Nationwide Series
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