By Mike Mulhern FORT WORTH So there’s too much emphasis on the guys in NASCAR’s championship chase, and not enough on everyone else? That’s been a complaint from those so ignored. But in this year’s chase there is really little else to talk about except the title fight between Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, […]
By Mike Mulhern ATLANTA So what is Bruton Smith really up to? Whatever it is, it may well be bigger than just the furor surrounding Smith’s threat to pull the plug on Lowe’s Motor Speedway. This whole thing looks to have the momentum of a snowball rolling downhill. While NASCAR teams spent the last […]
By Mike Mulhern ATLANTA Bruton Smith, as he awaited Friday night’s special vote on his planned $60 million NHRA drag strip by the Concord City Council, repeated his point that he is “90 percent” certain to tear down Lowe’s Motor Speedway and build a new NASCAR track somewhere within an 18-mile radius of the […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]