Monthly Archives: October 2016

Las Vegas Native Gragson Competing with Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2017

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Noah Gragson at 8:40 pm ET on Monday, October 10, 2016. Photo - KBM

Noah Gragson at 8:40 pm ET on Monday, October 10, 2016. Photo – KBM

Noah Gragson is our guest on Fan4Racing NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, October 10, 2016 at 8:40 pm ET. Call 929-477-1790 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite or @Sal_Sigala with any questions or comments during our LIVE broadcast.

Last Friday, Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that 18-year old Las Vegas native Noah Gragson is competing for them in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for the 2017 season.

The NASCAR Next success story of Noah Gragson is a great fit with KBM as his career began on the same grounds as team owner Kyle Busch, getting his start at the age of 13 in Bandoleros at the Las Vegas Bullring – a 0.375-mile paved oval. Moving on to the Legends division in 2014, Gragson won the Young Lion Road Course champion and began racing in the Super Late Model division at the Nevada track.

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Bill McAnally Racing Finding Success with the Right People in the Right Places

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Bill McAnally at 9 pm ET on Monday, October 10, 2016 Photo - BMR

Bill McAnally at 9 pm ET on Monday, October 10, 2016 Photo – BMR

Bill McAnally is our guest on Fan4Racing NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, October 10, 2016 at 9 pm ET. Call 929-477-1790 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite or @Sal_Sigala with any questions or comments during our LIVE broadcast. 

In the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West circuit, Bill McAnally Racing is an organization drivers want to become a part of, because their 26 years of success is undeniable. After 25 years of racing with long time sponsor NAPA Auto Parts, they have over 60 victories and six championship titles. On the way to their 26th season finale at All-American Speedway on October 15th, BMR has added eight more victories in 13 races and will likely crown their seventh champion, Todd Gilliland, who has also clinched the Rookie of the Year title for the series.  Continue reading →

Late Pass Gives Logano XFINITY Win, as Chase Field Cut to Eight

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If stealing a race were against the law, there would be an arrest warrant out for Joey Logano on Sunday night.

Grabbing the lead from Kyle Larson after a restart on lap 183 of 200, Logano held off a charging Elliott Sadler by 0.462 seconds to win the Drive for the Cure 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the event that trimmed the inaugural NASCAR XFINITY Chase field from 12 drivers to eight.

Larson, who led 165 laps and at one point had the lead lap to himself, closed on Logano with three circuits left but brushed the turn two wall on lap 197 and fell to fourth at the finish behind Sadler and Daniel Suarez. Continue reading →

Jimmie Johnson Triumphs at Charlotte as Five Chase Drivers Fall on Hard Times

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After Sunday’s victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson can proclaim justifiably ‘The Boys are Back in Town.’

But for five other Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers, all of whom finished 30th or worse in the rain-delayed Bank of America 500, the race ended in a medley of dire straits.

Taking the lead from Matt Kenseth after a restart on lap 317 of 334, Johnson pulled away to win by 1.474 seconds over the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Johnson put his No. 48 Chevrolet in Victory Lane for the third time this season, the eighth time at Charlotte – the third since the repaving of the track in March 2006 – and the 78th time in his career. Continue reading →

NASCAR XFINITY Series, Drive for the Cure 300 at Charlotte Preview

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NASCAR XFINITY Series drivers will race 300 miles over 200 laps in the Drive for the Cure 300 on Sunday, October 9th. NBC Sports Network coverage begins at 4 pm ET (or immediately after the Sprint Cup race – whichever comes first) with radio coverage on PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.

What to Watch For: Daniel Suarez (6.6) and Elliott Sadler (8.9) – both of whom have advanced to the NASCAR XFINITY Series Chase Round of 8 via victories – lead all championship contenders in average finish at 1.5-mile tracks this year.

The Chase bubble is packed with ten drivers within 17 points of elimination. Here’s where the drivers who haven’t clinched berths in the Round of 8 stand: Justin Allgaier (17 points ahead of Ty Dillon on the cutoff line), Brendan Gaughan (+14), Ryan Reed (+11), Darrell Wallace Jr. (+10), Blake Koch (+4), Brennan Poole (+3), Dillon (-3 points below Brennan Poole on the cutoff line), Erik Jones (-4), Ryan Sieg (-10) and Brandon Jones (-18). Continue reading →