NASCAR fans ready for the new season to begin, also have a lot of questions about the Sprint Cup Series‘ new Generation Six cars.
A general view of the new Generation Six race cars during the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Media Tour at the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Jan 22, 2013 in Concord, NC Photo – Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
Autoweek announced today, that fans can tune into a live-streamed town-hall discussion on autoweekracing.com to see the inaugural Autoweek Racing Conference: The Road to Daytona on Tuesday, Feb 5 at 9 am ET. Continue reading →
Hey Race fans are you ready for our next episode of Fan4Racing’s Fan2Fan NASCAR Talk for Monday, February 4th? If you missed the show don’t worry. You can hear the replay right here.
Photo – Elmhurst Historical Museum exhibit Feb 1 to May 19, 2013
“On the Road to Glory: Fred Lorenzen,” Racing Legend and Hometown Hero
Designated as one of the top 50 NASCAR drivers of all time in 1998, Fred Lorenzen‘s, rise in NASCAR is like a shooting star, shining brightly during a substantial part of its golden era in the 1960’s. For five years from 1962 to 1967, Lorenzen’s star power was at its brightest as he dominated NASCAR’s racing circuit, winning numerous major races and defeating the best drivers of his day with an amazing 21 wins. Continue reading →
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the #17 Best Buy, stands in the garage during NASCAR Testing at Charlotte Motor Speedway on January 18, 2013 in Charlotte, NC Photo – Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
Ricky Stenhouse Jr, a two-time Nationwide Series champion, won’t be returning to defend his back-to-back championships, to make it three in a row this year. Instead, his Nationwide schedule will be partial, as he shifts his focus to the Sprint Cup series. He will be taking over the #17 at Roush-Fenway Racing, where he will be gunning for both the Rookie of the Year and the Sprint Cup series titles.
Stenhouse Jr is not the first driver and certainly not the last either, to campaign for both Rookie of the Year and the Cup title, as every driver that starts their first full season as a rookie is aiming to win both. The last driver to pull off a more successful rookie year was Denny Hamlin in 2006. Hamlin won Rookie of the Year and nearly succeeded in winning the championship before finishing 3rd in the points. Continue reading →