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2012 Toyota Camry Dominates Daytona With Smokey Tires
2012 Toyota Camry Dominates Daytona With Smokey Tires

8 Sep 2011, 15:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Even though the Camry will stop being imported from Japan, we’ll stop short of calling the new model an American car. However, the 2012 sedan that will be the star of sales figures to come doe...

 
2012 Toyota Camry to Set the Pace at Daytona 500
2012 Toyota Camry to Set the Pace at Daytona 500

24 Aug 2011, 06:49 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / We could start off by saying “as tradition goes,” but this is definitely not the case. When speaking of American motorsports tradition nothing is goes better that NASCAR. And while forei...

 
Rookie Trevor Bayne, Youngest Daytona 500 Winner
Rookie Trevor Bayne, Youngest Daytona 500 Winner

21 Feb 2011, 07:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If one is to judge by the way in which the 2011 Sprint Cup season kicked off, the possibility of it becoming one very special year in the motorsport's history seems very likely. The season whic...

 
Earnhardt Jr. Loses Daytona 500 Pole After Practice Crash
Earnhardt Jr. Loses Daytona 500 Pole After Practice Crash

17 Feb 2011, 09:25 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Dale Earnhardt Jr lost the chance to commemorate in style the 10th anniversary of his father's deadly accident (which occurred in the very final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 race) when he crashe...

 
Transformers Stars to Be Grand Marshals at 2011 Daytona 500
Transformers Stars to Be Grand Marshals at 2011 Daytona 500

17 Feb 2011, 07:26 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The North American Stock Car Racing series (NASCAR) is all about speed and show, and the Sprint Cup officials have proven just that with their latest decision to bring together the very symbol of NA...

 
Dale Earnhardt Jr Takes Pole Position in the 2011 Daytona 500
Dale Earnhardt Jr Takes Pole Position in the 2011 Daytona 500

14 Feb 2011, 06:38 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Dale Earnhardt Jr will begin the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup season from pole position when the action in American stock-car racing resumes on February 20th, for the Daytona 500 race. And the timing coul...

 
Jamie McMurray Won the Daytona 500
Jamie McMurray Won the Daytona 500

15 Feb 2010, 07:47 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jamie McMurray scored his first ever Daytona 500 win of career on Sunday, when he powered to the chequered flag after no less than 6 hours of action on the Daytona International Speedway. The race w...

 
NASCAR Announces Changes to Green-White-Checkered Flag Rules
NASCAR Announces Changes to Green-White-Checkered Flag Rules

12 Feb 2010, 08:38 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The new season in the NASCAR series has brought a series of changes to the rulebook, and the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing proceeded to one more only one week until the season openi...

 
Mark Martin Takes Daytona 500 Pole Position
Mark Martin Takes Daytona 500 Pole Position

7 Feb 2010, 13:30 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After the first qualifying session of the new Sprint Cup season, we can easily say that Hendrick Motorsports did not make fouls out of themselves when offering Mark Martin an extension to his former...

 
Budweiser Shootout New Criteria, New Faces, More Stars
Budweiser Shootout New Criteria, New Faces, More Stars

2 Feb 2010, 08:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the US is getting ready for the start of the 2010 NASCAR season of February 14, all eyes now turned to the non-points precursor of the Daytona 500, the Budweiser Shootout. Now in its 32nd editio...

 
2011 Mustang GT Is the Daytona 500 Official Pace Car
2011 Mustang GT Is the Daytona 500 Official Pace Car

20 Jan 2010, 08:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the first time in 40 years, a Ford vehicle has been named official pace car for one of the most famed races in the US, the Daytona 500. The Ford in question is a 2011 Mustang GT, a vehicle which...

 
NASCAR Announces 2010 Sprint Cup Calendar
NASCAR Announces 2010 Sprint Cup Calendar

16 Sep 2009, 09:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / With the Chase list now confirmed for the remaining 10 rounds of the 2009 Sprint Cup season, the NASCAR officials have unveiled the schedule for the upcoming year. And there are little changes broug...

 
Michael Waltrip Helps You Play Tricks on April Fools' Day
Michael Waltrip Helps You Play Tricks on April Fools' Day

20 Mar 2009, 15:10 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / If you happen to have among your friends a NASCAR fan that you want to play an April Fools trick on, Best Western, the official hotel of NASCAR, is helping you to achieve this goal. For this year...

 
Matt Kenseth Holds Gordon for Auto Club 500 Win
Matt Kenseth Holds Gordon for Auto Club 500 Win

23 Feb 2009, 08:33 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The two champions that were banned from Victory Lane last season – Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon – put out a hell of a show for the fans at the Auto Club Speedway on Sunday. With 20 laps ...

 
Crew Member Suspended by NASCAR
Crew Member Suspended by NASCAR

20 Feb 2009, 08:42 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / NASCAR's revised substance abuse policy has made its first victim in the Sprint Cup Series. Following a drug test conducted after the Daytona 500 race last Sunday, Paul Chodora, a licensed crew...

 
Jeff Burton to Make "General Hospital" Appearance
Jeff Burton to Make "General Hospital" Appearance

18 Feb 2009, 10:55 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / NASCAR driver Jeff Burton will appear on ABC's famous soap-opera General Hospital in the near future, as reported by the series' official site. He is scheduled to visit the set of the afor...

 
Kenseth Sets New Goal for 2009
Kenseth Sets New Goal for 2009

18 Feb 2009, 08:08 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although he started the season in the best possible way – winning his first ever Daytona 500 race – Matt Kenseth admitted there's still a lot of work ahead to become a title contend...

 
Earnhardt Jr. Experiences Controversial Daytona 500
Earnhardt Jr. Experiences Controversial Daytona 500

16 Feb 2009, 09:40 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Dale Earnhardt Jr. didn't have what you might call “a promising start of the season” on Sunday. The Hendrick Motorsports driver had a poor day from beginning to end during the seaso...

 
Matt Kenseth Clinched Maiden Daytona 500 Win
Matt Kenseth Clinched Maiden Daytona 500 Win

16 Feb 2009, 09:12 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / “Crying in the rain” is probably the best motto to describe what happened in NASCAR's famous Daytona 500 on Sunday. The Great Race officials decided to stop the race due to heavy ra...

 
Martin Truex Jr. Clinches Daytona 500 Pole Position
Martin Truex Jr. Clinches Daytona 500 Pole Position

9 Feb 2009, 14:22 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Martin Truex Jr. will start the upcoming Sprint Cup season from pole position, as he managed to set the fastest time of the qualifying session for the Daytona 500. The Earnhardt Ganassi Racing drive...