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Ben Rhodes Gaining Valuable Experience and Knowledge at JR Motorsports

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Ben Rhodes, driver of the #88 Alpha EnergySolutions Chevrolet, checks his tablet before practice for the NASCAR XFINITY Series Owens Corning AttiCat 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on June 19, 2015 Photo - Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
Ben Rhodes, driver of the #88 Alpha EnergySolutions Chevrolet, checks his tablet before practice for the NASCAR XFINITY Series Owens Corning AttiCat 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on June 19, 2015 Photo – Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

The 2015 season for JR Motorsports driver Ben Rhodes, is fair to say, ‘different’ from most young drivers entering this sport. Especially, considering that Rhodes is coming from a championship season in the NASCAR K&N East Series in 2014. This season has been a big learning experience in his young career, directing him toward more of an observation role, in contrast to many of his peers. Rhodes is only scheduled to run ten NASCAR XFINITY Series races at JR Motorsports this year, but he has also been at the track every race week to take in information that will help him later. Continue reading →

Austin Wayne Self Optimistic about Chances at Chicagoland

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Photo - Courtesy of Mason Mitchell Motorsports
Photo – Courtesy of Mason Mitchell Motorsports

For Mason Mitchell Motorsports driver Austin Wayne Self, the 2015 ARCA Racing series season has seen him be a threat to win week in and week out.

“We’ve just been focusing on ourselves,” states Self who has accumulated four top-fives and six top-tens this season. “I feel like we’ve definitively put ourselves in position to win this year we just need that little bit of luck and we’ll be in victory lane”

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Big Name Drivers Influence NASCAR Rules Package Change for Kentucky

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Photo - Tom Pennington/Getty Images
Photo – Tom Pennington/Getty Images

It’s no secret that up to this point of the season, NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers have been unhappy with the current rules package for their cars. The new aerodynamics package for the 2015 has produced sub par racing for several drivers and they have no fear in expressing to NASCAR their desire for change.

The first evidence of the unhappiness from the drivers began when we learned of the newly formed, ‘Driver’s Council’ as reported in early June. Drivers include but are not limited to, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Joey Logano, Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin.

The new package NASCAR announced this week, will début at Kentucky Speedway, and it’s a reasonable to surmise, that new packaged stemmed from concerns expressed by the ‘Driver’s Council.’ Continue reading →

The Dillon Dilemma for Richard Childress Racing

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Austin Dillon, driver of the #33 Rheem Chevrolet, and Ty Dillon, driver of the #3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet, walk on the grid prior to the NASCAR XFINITY Series Winn Dixie 300 at Talladega Superspeedway on May 2, 2015 Photo - Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images
Austin Dillon, driver of the #33 Rheem Chevrolet, and Ty Dillon, driver of the #3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet, walk on the grid before the NASCAR XFINITY Series Winn Dixie 300 at Talladega Superspeedway on May 2, 2015 Photo – Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images

From Donnie and Bobby Allison, to Kurt and Kyle Busch, and several in between, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has become accustom to seeing brothers compete and compete well. The Dillon brothers are yet another brother duo now competing across NASCAR’s top-three national series.

Coming off  an 18th-place finish at Pocono this past weekend and again stepping into a Sprint Cup Series car Sunday at Michigan International Speedway this weekend, questions are already swirling around what Ty Dillon’s plans will be for the 2016 season.

Compared to his older brother Austin, who is already part of Richard Childress Racing’s three car stable in the Sprint Cup Series, it has been a wonder trying to figure where Ty will fit into the organization within the next couple of years. Continue reading →