Jeff Gordon not only took the Martinsville pole, he’s won seven times at the track. Can the No. 24 add another checkered finish?
Jeff Gordon not only took the Martinsville pole, he’s won seven times at the track. Can the No. 24 add another checkered finish?
Dennis Setzer assumed the lead when Kyle Busch had to brake to avoid a crash in front of him Saturday, then held on through numerous restarts to win the Kroger 250 Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway.
The victory was the first for Dodge since the late Bobby Hamilton won at Mansfield in 2005, and the truck Setzer won in is co-owned by Hamilton’s widow, Lori.
“The emotions are running high right now,” Lori Hamilton said.
Larry McReynolds used to be a crew chief on the NASCAR circuit. Now he’s supporting another up-and-coming racer — his son.
Michael Waltrip gave a less sensational version Saturday of how his team came to be in possession of a part belonging to one of Jack Roush’s teams, saying that what Roush asserted was “intellectual espionage” was merely a mistake.
“We didn’t know anything about having it until January when they called and said, ‘You have our swaybar,’ and we said, ‘We do?’ We told them that we would find it and give it back to them and that’s what we did,” Waltrip said before practice Saturday.
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Richard Petty undoubtedly helped the sport of NASCAR grow, and now he is asking for help in order to stay in it, Lee Spencer says.
Jeff Gordon earned the 65th pole of his career and his second this season by turning the fastest lap at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway today. Although Jamie McMurray got slammed in an AP article earlier this week for getting off to a slow start, he qualified fifth for Sunday’s Goody’s Cool …