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(photo courtesy John Harrelson/Getty Images) With the victory in the Air Guard 400 at Richmond Saturday night, Denny Hamlin secures the top seed in The Chase for The Sprint Cup. Hamlin warded off a very serious challenge from his fellow Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, ol Kylie Busch (aka The Las Vegas Weasel) . . . → Read More: Hamlin Emerges As The Top Seed! (photo courtesy Al Bello/Getty Images) Saturday evening at Richmond International Raceway is the debut of “The Clint Bowyer Show”. Even though ABC is broadcasting the Air Guard 400, the real title of the show should be “The Clint Bowyer Show”! Bowyer will be the focus of attention by most fans and several . . . → Read More: It’s The Clint Bowyer Show (photo courtesy nascar.com) Pole-sitter, Kevin Harvick, holds off Nationwide Series points leader “Blazingly Bad” Brad Keselowski for the victory in Friday night’s Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond International Raceway. The victory was Harvick’s third of the season and 37th of his career, third all time in the series. The owner/driver . . . → Read More: Harvick Prevails At Richmond (photo courtesy Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) On Friday the Nationwide’s “new cars” will make their third appearance on the NASCAR circuit in the Virginia College Savings Plan 250 at Richmond International Raceway. On Thurday, these “new cool cars’ got on the track for a six hour practice session. “It has a lack of . . . → Read More: “New Cool” Cars At Richmond Nationwide Race (photo courtesy rir.com) Richmond International Raceway track facts: LENGTH: 3/4-Mile, measured 13-½ feet in from SAFER Barrier. SHAPE: “D”-Shaped Oval WIDTH: 60 feet with a 10-foot apron. BANKING: 14 degrees in turns, eight degrees at starting line on 1,290-foot front stretch, two degrees on 860-foot back stretch. RADIUS OF TURNS: Turns 1 and . . . → Read More: Richmond Track Facts (photo courtesy Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images) It has readily been apparent that the quality of the racing has had little influence on the decision making process of NASCAR about the calender and schedule in the Sprint Cup era. Having been to six Atlanta races over the past 20 years, quite predictably, this year’s . . . → Read More: Does The “Show” Really Matter? (photo courtesy Leon Hammack) Tony Stewart, driving the Stewart-Haas Racing Office Depot/Old Spice Chevy, took the lead on a restart with just 24 laps to go, more importantly, he held on to the lead after a restart with 18 laps to go, and went on to win the Emory Healthcare 500 at . . . → Read More: Stewart “Smokes” ‘Em At Atlanta (file photo courtesy NASCAR) This year marks the “golden anniversary” of The Atlanta Motor Speedway. The foundation of this 870 acre facility began back in the planning stage in 1958. WOMR would like to reflect on some thoughts about the six races at Atlanta that were viewed in person. The first Atlanta . . . → Read More: Atlanta: The Golden Anniversary (photo courtesy Leon Hammack) Saturday night Jaime McMurray drove the JR Motorsports #88 Hellmann’s Chevy to the victory at The Great Clips 300 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The victory was the first of the season in the series for McMurray, who won the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 races this year . . . → Read More: McMurray Wins The Great Clips 300 (photo courtesy Daytona’s web site) The crew from Lane Construction began the most challenging aspect of the 2010 Daytona Repave on Thursday morning – putting new asphalt on the steep 31-degree high banks of Daytona International Speedway. Workers paved the drainage layer in Turns 3 and 4, the first of four layers that . . . → Read More: Daytona Repaving Update |
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