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Hill wins Xfinity race in Atlanta to continue dominant start
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Austin Hill continued his dominant start to the NASCAR Xfinity season, holding off Daniel Hemric at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday night for his third win in five races. Hill overcome a record-setting day of cautions in doubleheader Xfinity and truck series races. There were 11 cautions, the most for an Xfinity race in Atlanta, knocking out 12 drivers. Hill previously collected Xfinity wins at Daytona on Feb. 18 to open the season and at Las Vegas on March 4. Hill, a native of Winston, Georgia, added a home-track win to his strong start for the Richard Childress Racing team. The final caution came with eight…
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MotoAmerica: Race Results From The Restarted 81st Daytona 200 – Roadracing World Magazine
KurveyGirl.com brings you the results of this weekend’s events. At our online motorcycle parts store, you’ll find a specialized selection of quarter turn “Dzus” fasteners, titanium hardware, premium tire valve stems, Vesrah racing brake pads, Brembo parts and accessories, and other unique hardware specifically designed for race and trackday motorcycles. Editorial Note: The Daytona 200 was red flagged on lap 53 of 57 scheduled laps. MotoAmerica officials decided to run a 10-lap restart, resulting in a race distance of 62 laps, or 217.52 miles. 23_1_DAY_SSP_R1_res More, from a press release issued by MotoAmerica: Herrin Wins 81st Running Of The Daytona 200 Thirteen Years Later, Josh Herrin Wins…
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NASCAR race at Las Vegas: William Byron wins thanks to restart
Mar 5, 2023; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver William Byron (24) celebrates his victory of the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Gary A. Vasquez Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports William Byron led 176 laps on Sunday — and that included the final one. The 24 car swept all three stages at Las Vegas Motor Speedway en route to his first win of the 2023 season. It also marked the first win for Hendrick Motorsports on the year — reminding the rest of the field how dangerous Hendrick cars are on intermediate tracks: HMI teammate Kyle Larson finished second,…
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Dethroned King: Petty hurt as Johnson takes over race team
DAYTONA Beach, Fla. (AP) — Richard Petty might even now reign as NASCAR’s King, but with Jimmie Johnson wresting management of Petty’s aged race team, he is definitively not the manager. The Hall of Famer effectively has been stripped of energy inside of his previous eponymous workforce that speedily rebranded and rebuilt considering that November. Johnson and Petty are the only dwelling seven-time NASCAR champions — and that seems to be where the similarities close inside of Legacy Motor Club’s front business. The 85-year-aged Petty, who is officially Legacy’s ambassador, mentioned Saturday he has bruised thoughts and minor say in the way of the race group considering that Johnson bought…
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1979 Daytona 500 picked as NASCAR’s most memorable race
DAYTONA Beach, Fla. (AP) — Just take a trip via Daytona Intercontinental Speedway’s major tunnel and pics of some of the most celebrated activities in observe history line the partitions. A person can not be missed. It reveals Cale Yarborough, helmet in hand, prepared to unload on Bobby Allison and ignite a muddy, bloody slugfest in the 1979 Daytona 500 that turned the remarkably anticipated initially dwell flag-to-flag broadcast of a race into a spectacle that stamped NASCAR on the countrywide sports map. Who had been these great ol’ boys on Television fighting as an alternative of racing? The seminal second legitimized the Daytona 500 in a flash — additional…
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Auto heavyweights Andretti, GM join to race on Formula 1’s global stage
Two icons of the U.S. auto planet, Andretti World wide and Basic Motors Co.’s Cadillac, are teaming up to race in the world’s most prestigious, open-wheel, motor-racing sequence, Method 1. The bombshell information Thursday came as Formulation 1 and Cadillac are building significant pushes in new markets, and dovetails with retired race-car or truck driver Michael Andretti’s ambitions to abide by in the footsteps of his renowned father, Mario Andretti, to conquer F1 with an American staff. The shift also comes as GM is accelerating its determination to global motorsport: Cadillac is pursuing victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this yr with a new, prototype athletics car, and…
