Kyle Busch on the Hot Seat After NASCAR Inspection
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas Kyle Busch’s victory in Saturday’s Busch 300 – a thriller win over Matt Kenseth in front of a crowd of some 82,000 – is in some doubt now, with NASCAR inspectors telling car owner Rick Hendrick the engine manifold on the winning car did not pass post-race inspection. […]
Jacques Villeneuve Himself Made the Talladega ‘Go’ Call
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas Jacques Villeneuve himself made the call to run Talladega next Sunday, Mike Brown, general manager for Bill Davis’ Toyota team, says. The Villeneuve move puts him smack in the middle of this year’s Nextel Cup championship, at one of the tour’s trickiest tracks, and men like Jeff Gordon […]
Greg Biffle Is the Controversial Winner of the Year’s Most Bizarre Race
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas This NASCAR championship chase is getting downright weird. Make book at your own risk, because clearly no one has the immunity idol in this thing. It was some 10 minutes past sunset when Greg Biffle and new crew chief Greg Erwin got to start celebrating their first win […]
Jeff Gordon Cool and Loose for Today’s 400, But Jimmie Johnson Crashes
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas Jeff Gordon looks supremely at ease this weekend, his championship train is like moving with the inevitability of a runaway freight. So don’t stand in his way. He starts today’s Lifelock 400 from the second row. But teammate Jimmie Johnson, who won the pole, crashed yesterday during final […]
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Memo to NASCAR: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it….and vice versa too
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas Hey, wanna start a NASCAR team and come play this game? Fat chance, if you plan to start from scratch, unless you’re a glutton for financial punishment. But there are some interesting business investment opportunities, if you’re the gambling type. The price of running an existing Nextel Cup […]
Jacques Villeneuve Now Plans His Nextel Cup Debut Next Week at Talladega
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas Jacques Villeneuve, the Formula One star planning to make the jump into NASCAR, with Bill Davis’ Toyota operation in High Point, N.C., surprised everyone here yesterday by announcing he would be making his Nextel Cup debut next week at Talladega—barely three weeks after making his first runs in […]
Cup Tour Regulars Surprised That NASCAR Has Okayed Villeneuve for Talladega
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas NASCAR’s decision to okay Formula One star Jacques Villeneuve for next week’s Nextel Cup race at Talladega has stunned NASCAR regulars. Villeneuve, though he won the World Championship in 1997 and he’s an Indy 500 winner too, has only been running NASCAR machines for 24 days, and he […]
Jeff Gordon Says NASCAR Is Making a Mistake by Letting Jacques Villeneuve Run Talladega
By Mike Mulhern KANSAS CITY, Kansas Jeff Gordon, the four-time NASCAR Cup series champ who is odds-on favorite to get his fifth this season, says NASCAR is making a mistake approving Formula One star Jacques Villeneuve for next week’s Talladega 500 as his first Nextel Cup tour star. “I love Jacques, I’m a big […]