Things may have changed in Vegas (again), but you can expect to see the same guys doing well. Jeff Hammond says guys like Jimmie Johnson do well here because they can adapt to anything.
NASCARThings may have changed in Vegas (again), but you can expect to see the same guys doing well. Jeff Hammond says guys like Jimmie Johnson do well here because they can adapt to anything.
NASCARFor the third consecutive year, the Boston Herald will be covering the Coca-Cola 600 on May 27 from Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.
The Coca-Cola 600, NASCAR’s longest race of the season, is one of the biggest races of the Nextel Cup season and is as much part of …
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“Viva Montoya!†screamed a euphoric Mexican crowd of 70,000 as Juan Pablo Montoya zoomed past 20 cars in 17 laps and became the first Hispanic driver to win a NASCAR race. “This is huge for the Latin community,†the Colombian star said after he climbed out of his No. 42 Dodge and cracked open the champagne.
Heading into this weekend’s racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Tony Stewart said of the newly repaved track with progressive banking, “It’s so fast that Goodyear had to bring a really hard tire.” He continued, “…it would have been better off if they’d have just left it alone. I guess to a certain degree you’ve got to at least give them credit for trying to make it better, but I’m not sure they did.”
NASCARThis is not the kind of start to the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season that Dale Earnhardt Jr. envisioned.
Heading into Sunday’s UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Earnhardt has failed to finish the first two Cup races of the season and is 40th in the points, two spots behind Dale Earnhardt Inc. teammate Martin Truex Jr.
“We’re not happy about it, but we’re keeping our heads up,” Earnhardt said. “We’ve had some rough starts before and came back strong.
NASCAR“Viva Montoya!” screamed a euphoric Mexican crowd of 70,000 as Juan Pablo Montoya zoomed past 20 cars in 17 laps and became the first Hispanic driver to win a NASCAR race.
“This is huge for the Latin community,” the Colombian star said after he climbed out of his No. 42 Dodge and cracked open the champagne.
NASCARThere were times when the situation was so bleak at MB2 Motorsports that no one was sure the midlevel NASCAR team would survive. The budget was blown, payroll was low and the team fought weekly to stay afloat.
“I really couldn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel,” crew chief Ryan Pemberton said. “I thought we were headed toward being a team at the back of the pack every week, and there didn’t seem to be any way of avoiding it.
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