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Sergio Peña is Looking Forward to Racing at VIR this Weekend

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Sergio Peña is our next guest on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, August 11th at 9 pm ET. Call 347-996-5176 during the LIVE broadcast with any questions/comments. 

The 2014 season is a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly for Sergio Peña with just three top-tens in the first 11 events. He turned in his best two performances with a victory in the JEGS 250 on July 19th at Columbus Motor Speedway – his first in nearly three years – and a fourth-place finish in the Autolite Iridium XP 150 at Iowa Speedway on August 1st.  Continue reading

The Spears Southwest Tour with 51FiftyEnergy 100 at Irwindale Speedway this Weekend

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Brian Olsen, co-owner of The Spears Southwest Tour is our next guest on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, August 11th at 9:30 pm ET.  Call 347-996-5176 during the LIVE broadcast to interact with any comments/questions. 

After a ten-year absence, The Spears Southwest Tour is returning to Irwindale Event Center on August 16th. A little history about the series seems relevant to celebrating the occasion. So here we go… Continue reading

AJ Allmendinger Grabs a Chase Spot with Thrilling Win at Watkins Glen

Capturing his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Victory, AJ Allmendinger held off a hard charging Marcos Ambrose during the closing laps of the Cheez-It™ 355 at The Glen. 

The last road course of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season at The Glen gave AJ Allmendinger and Marcos Ambrose their best chance to qualify for the Chase. They both knew the stakes were high and gave their best effort to secure a win. They bumped each other door-to-door, racing side-by-side through the esses, and amazingly did it without wrecking. To the thrill of fans they ran a clean, hard race before Allmendinger made his last pass in turn six with just over one lap left to run. From there he went on to the checkered flag and his first series’ career win. Continue reading

Tragedy at the Track Involves NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver Tony Stewart

Tony Stewart, driver of the #14 Rush Truck Centers/Mobil 1 Chevrolet, sits in his car during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International on August 8, 2014 Photo - Jerry Markland/Getty Images
Tony Stewart, driver of the #14 Rush Truck Centers/Mobil 1 Chevrolet, sits in his car during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International on August 8, 2014 Photo – Jerry Markland/Getty Images

Every driver’s worst nightmare is now part of Sprint Cup driver Tony Stewart’s real world after a fatal and tragic accident during a Sprint Car race on Saturday night. 

After an on-track fatal incident in a Sprint Car race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in New York, word hit the social media circuit that the incident was between NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart and Sprint Car driver, Kevin Ward Jr. Stewart was inside his Sprint Car and hit Ward outside of his car on the track while expressing his dissatisfaction with Stewart’s actions leading to his car spinning into the outside wall in the previous lap. Continue reading