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Stenhouse Jr. has Eye on Sprint Cup Championship after Nationwide Success

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., 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

Johanna Long – A Fierce Racing Competitor

Inspired by her father, Johanna Long yearned to be a racer behind the wheel.  Photo - Johanna Long's Facebook page
Inspired by her father, Johanna Long yearned to be a racer behind the wheel.
Photo – Johanna Long’s Facebook page

A fearless racer and young woman with a big heart, perfectly describes Johanna Long

Johanna Long is one of only a few female racers on the NASCAR circuit, but that’s not why she’s worthy of attention. Johanna grabs people’s attention because of her racing performance on the track. And she’s been doing that since the beginning of her racing career that started when she was eight-years-old. Continue reading

NASCAR’s Rookies may Rock Headlines in 2013

The 2013 season has a lot to offer with the new G6 cars in the Sprint Cup Series, but what may rock headlines across NASCAR’s top-three divisions’ are the Rookies of Racing.

Among the many signs of revival within NASCAR this year are the rookie classes across their top-three series, Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck series’. Each with Rookie of the Year contenders offering a layer of interest in watching this season’s competition for their respective coveted titles. Continue reading