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SPRINT CUP SERIES NEWS :
2012 - Sprint Cup Champion -*** Brad Keselowski
Next Race : Daytona - 2/24/2013
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SPRINT CUP HEADLINES
1/11/2013 - Danica Patrick vs Ricky Stenhouse Jr for Rookie of the Year in this series this season.This should be a good battle for this title .There haven't been a lot of hot prospects battling for this position for several years.
1/11/213 - Michael Waltrip will drive the #30 Swan Racing Toyota in the Daytona 500 this season.This will be a one race venture in this car for Michael.
1/11/2013 - Phoenix Racing will feature Regan Smith,A.J.Allmendinger, and Austin Dillion as the drivers of the #51 for the up-coming season.
1/6/2013 - No changes for the #13 team as Casey Mears is supposedly signed thru 2014 and sponsor GEICO is signed thru 2014, which will be the primary for about 20 races. Mears tends to start and park or not run the full unsponsored races. Robert "Bootie" Barker returns as the crew chief and the team will run Fords with Roush Yates engines
12/25/2012 - NASCAR spent almost the entire year developing its 2013 car in hopes the ''Gen 6'' model will dramatically improve the racing.After his first test drive, NASCAR's most popular driver approved of the car.''This sport is going to be revolutionized again with this car,'' Dale Earnhardt Jr. said.That's a ringing endorsement for NASCAR, which stumbled out of the gate with the launch of its 2007 car and never recovered. Drivers were mixed on the ''Car of Tomorrow'' during its development and the messaging reflected the varying opinions. All of the drivers appear to like the new cars.
12/13/2012 - Tony Eury Jr will be the crew chief for the #30 Swan Racing Toyotas in 2013. Steve Hmiel is the Director of Compertion and David Stremme as the driver. Brandon Davis is the owner of this team. This will be a team to watch in 2013. They will run TRD engines.
12/13/2012 - David Reutimann has been rumored to be the driver of a second team car for JTG Daughtery Racing in 2013.
12/13/2012 - Front Row Motorsports has Ford Racing support as well as Rousch Yates Engines for power. They will field 3 teams again this season. The #38 Ford with David Gilliland as the driver will return with Jay Guy as crew chief and U.S. Shredder as a sponsor. The #34 Ford will feature David Ragan as the driver with Derrick Finley as the crew chief and McCall Farms as a sponsor. The #26 Ford will have Josh Wise as a driver and MDS Transport as a sponsor. These teams should continue to improve as they have for the past 4 years. Bob Jenkins Owner is committed to grow these teams and take the time needed to get them in the top 20.
12/12/2012 - The Cup Series drivers have been involved in a two day test and all of them are pleased with the new .#11 Denny Hamlin wrecked his car and #20 Matt Kenseth blew and engine.
11/29/2012 - Dale Earnhardt Jr. won " The Most Poplar Driver " award for the 10th time.
11/29/2012 - Click on this link to see all the new cars. 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Manufacturers News and Images page.
11/29/2012 - Click on this link to see the new cars 2013 Paint Schemes links page.
11/18/2012 - #24 Jeff Gordon won the final race of the season.This was his 2nd win of the year and the 87th of his career.#2 Brad Keselowski won the 2012 Cup Championship. This was Penske Racing's first Cup Series Championship.#88 Dale Earnhardt Jr finished this race in the 10th position and was 12th in the points. Hendrick Motorsports won 10 races this season.This organization had 4 teams in the Chase this season.
11/18/2012- There are at least 15 teams that can win a race on the track every week. Check out the top 15 teams in points and determine for yourself how capable they are of winning. If the points leader has a bad race any week it brings him back to them and they move up .about 25 teams that can win races in this series.
2012 - Series Champion Brad Keselowski & Penske Racing/#2 Miller Team
2012 - Manufacturers Champion Chevrolet
2012 - ROTY Champion Stephen Leight
2012 Most Poplar Driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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INFO & STUFF
- Potential Free Agents for the 2013 season.
All Time / Active Sprint Cup Winners
All-Times Poles
(1) Richard Petty - Wins- 200 - Championships -7 (6) Cale Yarborough-Wins - 84 - Championships - 3
(2) Dale Earnhardt - Wins -76 - Championships -7 (7) Darrell Waltrip - Wins -85 - Championships - 3
(3) David Pearson - Wins -105 - Championships-3 (8) Bobby Allison - Wins -84 - Championships - 1
(4) Jeff Gordon - Wins - 87 - Championships-4 (9) Lee Petty - Wins- 54 - Championships- 3
(5) Jimmie Johnson Wins - 59 - Championships -5 (10) Tony Stewart - Wins -45 - Championships -3
Chevrolet has won more Races and Championships than any other manufacturer.
A Few Drivers That Never Won A Championship :
Junior Johnson - 50 Wins Ricky Rudd - 23 Wins
Mark Martin - 40 Wins Davey Allison - 19 Wins
Fireball Roberts - 33 Wins Buddy Baker - 19 Wins
Fred Lorenzon - 26 Wins Dale Earnhardt Jr - 20 Wins
Jim Paschal - 25 Wins Kyle Bush - 23 Wins
Just To Name A Few*** Active Drivers
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Nationwide Series News :
2012 Series Champion #6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Next Race : Daytona 2/23/2013
DRIVER OF THE WEEK : ***
Nationwide HEADLINES
1/11/2013 - Justin Allgaier will return to Turner Motorsports for the 2013 season.
1/11/2013 - Phoenix Racing will attempt to put Kurt Busch in the Phoenix Racing Chevy for the 3 restrictor plate races in this series this season.
1/6/2013 - JR Motorsports will field the #5 Chevy for Kasey Kahne and Brad Sweet for 27 races and he will drive 1 race for Great Clips who will be the sponsor. ReganSmith will drive the #7 Chevy for the entire season and Dale Jr will drive a limited number of races in the #88 Chevy. Kasey and Brad left Turner Motorsports and mved to JR Motorsports with their sponsor Great Clips..
1/6/2013 - James Buescher will drive about 10 to 15 races in the NNS and will run a truck for the entire season and make and attempt to win back to back titles in the CWTS.Rheem will be his sponsor..
1/6/2013 - Cale Gale will return to Turner Motorsports in 2013 but not as a driver, he will be a crew chief for Brandon Jones.
1/6/2013 - Danica Patrick will driver 10 races for Turner Motorsports in 2013.
12/25/2012 - NASCAR announced the 2013 schedule for the Nationwide Series . The 33-race lineup will include a trip to Mid-Ohio for the first time in series history. The season opens on Feb. 23 at Daytona.
11/17/2012 - #5 Regan Smith driving a JR Motorsports Chevy won the race. #6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr won his 2nd Championship with a 6th place finish. #18 JGR won the Ownwers Championship. #3 Austin Dillion won the ROTY Title.
11/16/2012 - Trevor Bayne will drive the #6 Fords for the full schedule in 2013. #12 Sam Hornish Jr will drive for this team for the entire season. #20 Brian Vickers will drive the entire season for this team in 2013.
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*** 2012 NNS Drivers Championship : :Ricky Stenhouse Jr.-
*** 2012 NNS Owners Championship # 18 JGR Team
*** 2012 -NNS ROTY Title # 3 Austin Dillion
***2012 NNS Manfacturers Championship Chevrolet
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Mark Martin was the all time winner with 49 wins. Kyle Busch has broken this record with 51 wins.
*** Jack Ingram is a former NASCAR Busch Series race car driver and champion. Nicknamed the "Iron Man", during eight seasons in the Busch Series, he won 31 races and 5 poles, as well as the 1982 and 1985 championships. Unlike most younger competitors, Ingram won his 31 races between the age of 45 and age 50. During most of his time in the series he drove the Skoal Bandit car (1984 to 1991). Throughout his Busch Series career he almost always raced in the #11 car.Prior to the inauguration of the Busch Series in 1982 Ingram had won three consecutive Late Model Sportsman Championships in 1972,1973 and 1974.
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2012 Champion - #31 James Buescher
Next Race : 2/22/2013 -
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CWTS HEADLINES
12/25/2012 - NASCAR announces 22-race Truck Series schedule, including first dirt-track event since 1970. As expected for weeks, NASCAR announced that its Camping World Truck Series will race on dirt at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio in an event scheduled for Wednesday night, July 24, next season. Ken Schrader is building a truck to run in this race. Ken will be the driver and should run up front for the entire race.
12/17/2012 - Brendan Gaughan will reunite with crew chief Shane Wilson to run a full season and compete for the 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship in Richard Childress Racing's No. 62 South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet Silverado.
11/16/2012 - #33 Cale Gale won the Homestaed Race. #31 James Buescher won the Championship. #3 Ty Dillion won the ROTY Title.
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2012 Camping World Truck Series Paint Schemes
For the past NEWS
2012 NCWTS Manufacturers Chanpionship : Chevrolet
2012 NCWTS Owners Championship : Turner Motorsports
2012 NCWTS Most Popular Driver : Nelson Piquet Jr
2012 NCWTS Drivers Champion : #31 James Buescher
2012 NCWTS ROTY: #3 Ty Dillion
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*** Ron Hornaday Jr will run in this series again in 2013.Ron drove for a start-up team in 2012 and didn't win a race. He still managed to finish 13 in the points. In 2011 Ron Hornaday Jr once again tried to place his name in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series record books by attempting to become the Truck Series champion. Ron drove the #33 KHI Chevy.Ron's hopes were destroyed at Texas by Kyle Busch who intentionally wrecked him and took him out of title contention on lap 14 of the race. He had the opportunity to repeat the history he made in 2009 turning his four current championships (2009, 2007, 1998 and 1996) into five. If he is able to win a fifth championship he would join Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson as the fourth driver to ever win five championships in any of NASCAR’s three elite divisions.On July 24, 2009, Hornaday became the first Camping World Truck Series driver to win four races in a row by winning at O'Reilly Raceway Park.On August 1, 2009, he won the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway, tying Richard Petty and Bobby Allison as the only drivers to win five consecutive races in their NASCAR careers.On November 13, 2009, he won his fourth Camping World Truck Series Championship, joins Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, and Jimmie Johnson as the only drivers to win 4 or more titles in the three major series of NASCAR. Also the first driver since Greg Biffle in 2000 to clinch the title before the last race of the season. Ron has 4 Championships 51 wins with 146 top fiives 208 top tens and 27 poles in 300 starts in this division.
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ARCA Series News :
Next Race: 2/16/2013 - Daytona
ARCA HEADLINES
12/25/2012 - Three days of open testing for the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards at Daytona Int'l Speedway came to a conclusion without any on-track incident among 61 drivers who posted time and speed.
10/19/2012 - Chris Buescher won the ARCA Championship for the 2012 Season. #44 Frank Kimmell finished in the 2nd position.
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2012 ARCA Champion : Chris Buescher
2012 ARCA ROTY: Alex Bowman
2012 Most Popular Driver - TBA
Toyota is the Manufacturer Champion for the 2012 ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards season.
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Frank Kimmel
Kimmel is the record nine-time ARCA Racing Series driving champion (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), and has led 10,624 laps in 200 races, more than any other active driver. He is the all-time leading superspeedway lap leader with 2,677 laps led in 81 races, and the all-time leading superspeedway pole winner with 20. Kimmel finished as the second-place driver in the ARCA Racing Series in 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2012. He also finished third in 2009 and 2011.His 76 career victories is second all-time, three behind Iggy Katona, and includes three as his own car owner, 66 for owner Larry Clement, four for Dan Falldorf, two for ThorSport Racing, and one for Terry Shirley. His 246 top-fives and 332 top-10 finishes are records for active drivers.His 42 career Menards Pole Awards comprises a total one fewer than Katona's record 43, and he has finished in the top 10 in ARCA Racing Series points in 20 consecutive seasons. The 1992 ARCA Rookie of the Year, Kimmel is the all-time leading money winner in the series with over $4 million in career earnings. His brother, Bill Kimmel, is an eight-time Crew Chief of the Year. He is the only driver to have been invited from ARCA to compete in the International Race of Champions (2006), and has competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck Series. Kimmel was the track champion at Charlestown (Ind.) Speedway in 1986 and 1987, and the champion at Louisville (Ky.) Speedway in 1989. His father, Bill Kimmel Sr., is a three-time ARCA Racing Series winner.
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Modified Series HEADLINES
12/25/2012 - In its 28th season of competition, the Whelen Modified Tour will see the 14-race slate spread across seven tracks in four states. New to the schedule in 2013 will be a special event as part of Speedweeks at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway and a second date at Riverhead (N.Y.) Raceway.
12/2/2012 - This series will start its season at Daytona on 2/18 -19/2013.
11/15/2012 - Doug Coby Won the Series Championship. Keith Rocco won the ROTY Title. Bobby Santos driving for a part time team won the final two races of the season.Ryan Preece was voted " The Most Poplar Driver" for the 2012 season. Wayne Darling is the winning car owner,and John McKenna was the winning crew chief.
9/22/2012 - #52 Doug Coby won at New Hampshire. Coby is the current Points Leader. Donny Lia was on the Pole. This series will run at Stafford Conn. on 9/30/2012.
2012 Series Drivers Championship : Doug Coby
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2012 ROTY : Keith Rocco
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9 Time Champ : Richie Evans
Richie Evans' racing career began after leaving his father's farm in Westernville, N.Y. at the age of 16 to become a mechanic at a gas station. His first racing experience was as a drag racer, but he soon switched to running stock cars starting in the Utica-Rome Speedway Hobby Division in 1964. Richie won his first NASCAR National Modified Championship in 1973 and didn't win his second until 1978, but from 1978 through 1985 he won eight consecutive NASCAR Featherlite Modified titles. Richies 8 straight Championships is a record for any NASCAR Division to this day. For 13 years Richie finished 1st nine times and 2nd twice, only finishing out of the top 10 once. Evans also won a record nine Most Popular Driver Awards. He won 30 track championships. In 1980 he won 52 of the 84 races he entered. He won the Modified Race of Champions 3 times. Richie was killed in a practice accident at Martinsville in 1985,while preparing for the final race of the season for the NASCAR Modified Tour.
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FIA ........................................ F1, F3000, GT, Touring car, off-road, etc.
Formula Nippon ................Japan's F3000.
Formula Two ....................... Euro Open-wheel (FIA)
Formula Three .................. Euro Open-wheel
GP2 .......................................... Euro Open-wheel
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IHRA .......................................Drag Racers
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Indy Lights Series ............Indycar feeder series
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NHRA ......................................Drag Racers
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ROC ........................................Race of Champions
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The first official NASCAR race was held at the Charlotte, North Carolina fairgrounds in 1949. Jim Roper won the first race, driving a 1949 Lincoln.
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Ricky Rudd got his 1st victory in 1983 at Riverside wheeling a Richard Childress Chevy.
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