Justin Allgaier won the Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 for the second straight year Sunday, beating longtime NASCAR driver Ken Schrader by 0.216 seconds in the ARCA-RE/MAX Series event at Salem Speedway.
Allgaier put his Chevrolet ahead of Schrader’s Ford on lap 169 and held on for the final 36 laps on the 0.555-mile track. Matt Carter was third in a Ford, followed by Frank Kimmel, Scott Speed, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and John Wes Townley.
NASCARBigger is not always better. Lee Spencer says it’s a lesson organizers at Pocono and California should take from Phoenix.
NASCARHow did Jimmie Johnson win his 34th career Cup race? Watch Saturday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 from beginning to end here.
NASCARWhile Jimmie Johnson celebrated his Phoenix win, the rest of Hendrick Motorsports took a sigh of relief, Lee Spencer says.
NASCARWhile Jimmie Johnson celebrated his Phoenix win, the rest of Hendrick Motorsports took a sigh of relief, Lee Spencer says.
NASCARIt turns out Carl Edwards was almost as good on a 1-mile oval as he has been on the 1.5-mile tracks.
Edwards, who has won three of eight races this season, all on the intermediate tracks, came back from a lap down Saturday night to finish fourth in the Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.
The Roush Fenway Racing driver lost the lap early when he made a green flag pit stop only moments before a caution flag waved.
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Phoenix winner stays on track while other contenders go to pits for fuel; first win of year for Hendrick.
The call earlier this week for regular random drug testing by some of NASCAR’s biggest stars apparently will not change the sanctioning organization’s current policy of testing only for “reasonable suspicion.”
But NASCAR president Mike Helton said the reaction by the drivers to the published report that former truck and Nationwide driver Aaron Fike used heroin the same day he drove in some races is a positive sign for the stock car sport.
NASCARJimmie Johnson used pit strategy and good fuel mileage to earn the first win of the season for Hendrick Motorsports at Phoenix.
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