NASCAR News

For 44 years, the Banks County Speedway sat silent, overgrown with trees and brush, derelict cars and a herd of goats the only visitors it had.

It took a visit to a track he had never even seen before for Rick Eckert to finally return to World of Outlaws Late Model Series victory lane.

Once in a while it only takes a single statement victory to make a young driver’s career. Friday night at Traveler’s Rest Speedway in Traveler’s Rest, S.C., 16-year-old USCS Rookie of the Year candidate Nick Snyder found out how true that statement can be.

The Mini Stock division took center stage at Anderson Motor Speedway in Williamston, SC Friday night, and David Darnell made the most of it.

PASS South Super Late Model points leader Zane Smith took the lead from veteran Lee Tissot on lap 47 and led the rest of the way to score the win in the Daniel Boone Classic 125 Friday night at Kingsport Speedway in Kingsport, Tenn.

Thanks to a brief but wild Kansas spring storm and the long delay it produced, Jimmie Johnson on Sunday became the first Sprint Cup driver to win a race on Mother’s Day since 2007.

Reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Will Power backed up his Verizon P1 Award and track qualifying lap record with a dominant victory today in the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis.

So, when is 95 miles per hour scarier than 200 mph? For Clint Bowyer it was when a very, very hard baseball came at him at 95 as he stood in a batter’s box at Kauffman Stadium earlier this week.

Matt Crafton didn’t have the fastest truck in Friday night’s Toyota Tundra 250 at Kansas Speedway, but he had the best feel for fuel mileage and what his crew chief would call their lucky fuel cell. The result was Crafton’s seventh series career victory.

Joey Logano strengthened his standing as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ 2015 Qualifying Meister on Friday night as he won the Coors Light Pole Award for Saturday night’s SpongeBob SquarePants 400 at Kansas Speedway.