Todd Gilliland Chasing #NASCAR History with Winning Ways

Todd Gilliland (L) looks to make history by beating Dan Gurney's (R) record of winning four straight races. Photo - Getty Images
Todd Gilliland (L) looks to make history by beating Dan Gurney’s (R) record of winning four straight races. Photo – Getty Images

NASCAR K&N Pro Victory At Kern Would Match Gurney’s 50-Year-Old Mark

Todd Gilliland heads to Bakersfield, California, on the hottest winning streak in 50 years.

Even if he doesn’t equal the all-time NASCAR K&N Pro Series mark for consecutive victories to start in the series, the 15-year-old from Sherrill’s Ford, North Carolina, is in pretty exclusive company.

It’s a club that includes two drivers in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, the 2015 Daytona 500 winner and Gilliland. That’s it. In the 62-year history of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series – dating back to the West Series’ beginnings as the Pacific Coast Late Model Series – just four drivers in both the East and West have won the first two series races to start their career. Continue reading →

#NASCAR XFINITY Series News & Notes – April 1, 2016

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NASCAR XFINITY Series teams are off for one more week before heading to Texas Motor Speedway next weekend for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300. Teams will prepare to race 200 laps covering 300 miles at Texas on Friday, April 8th with FOX Sports 1 coverage beginning at 8 pm ET and a green flag around 8:30 pm ET. Radio coverage is on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.

Suárez’s 2016 Start is Comparable to Past Champions

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Daniel Suárez is off to a strong start this season. He leads the NASCAR XFINITY Series championship standings by ten points over second-place Elliott Sadler after the first five races. Suárez’s start in the first five races, is better – and in most cases, far better – than those of the last five series title winners. Continue reading →

Kaz Grala Making NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Debut at Martinsville with GMS Racing

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Kaz Grala at 9 pm ET on Thursday, March 31, 2016. Photo - KazGrala.com
Kaz Grala at 9 pm ET on Thursday, March 31, 2016. Photo – KazGrala.com

Kaz Grala is our guest on Fan4Racing NASCAR weekend Preview on Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 9 pm ET. Call 929-477-1790 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite or @beberly18 with any questions or comments during our LIVE broadcast. 

Racing full-time in NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, Kaz Grala, with Ben Kennedy Racing now sits seventh in the series point standings after just three events this season with one top-five and two top-ten finishes. This weekend Grala is stepping behind the wheel of the No. 33 with GMS Racing for his Camping World Truck Series debut in the Alpha Energy Solutions 250 at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday.  Continue reading →

Kyle Larson to Race Fourth GMS Racing Truck at Martinsville

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Photo – Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Larson will race a fourth GMS Racing truck in Saturday’s Alpha Energy Resources 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway, a spokesperson for GMS Racing confirmed to CATCHFENCE.com.

Driving the No. 24 Chevrolet Silverado, Larson will join teammates Spencer Gallagher, Johnny Sauter and newcomer Kaz Grala to make up the four-truck lineup for GMS Racing. Martinsville will mark the first time that the Statesville, North Carolina-based organization has run four trucks in any event. The Maurice Gallagher-owned team won the season-opening event at Daytona International Speedway with veteran Sauter. Continue reading →