NASCAR American Ethanol e15 250 presented by Enogen

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It’s Time for Wide Opening Weekend at Iowa Speedway

Iowa Speedway Track President, Jimmy Small at 9:30 pm ET on Thursday, June 16, 2016 Photo - Getty Images
Iowa Speedway Track President, Jimmy Small at 9:30 pm ET on Thursday, June 16, 2016
Photo – Getty Images

Jimmy Small is our guest on Fan4Racing NASCAR Weekend Preview on Thursday, June 16 at 9:30 pm ET. Call 929-477-1790 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite or @beberly18 with any questions or comments during our LIVE broadcast. 

Small will help preview the weekend of racing action at ‘The Fastest Short Track on the Planet’ as well as discuss the abundance of fan amenities available at the track in Newton, Iowa.

Coming to NASCAR in 2008, Jimmy Small was working out of NASCAR’s Daytona Beach, Fla., headquarters coordinating event weekends with tracks, television partners and teams. Small worked with NASCAR in various business-building capacities, including serving as senior manager for team marketing services within the NASCAR Industry Services department out of the Charlotte, N.C., office. In that role, he was the business and marketing liaison with teams and drivers in all three national series. Continue reading

Daniel Suarez Scores Breakthrough Victory at Michigan

Daniel Suarez was speechless—and justifiably so.

The Mexican driver had just passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch for the lead on the next-to-last lap and held on to win Saturday’s Menards 250 presented by Valvoline NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Michigan International Speedway by 0.280 seconds over the man who sets the standard in the series.

The first Mexican-born driver to win a NASCAR national series race, Suarez overcame a pit road speeding penalty assessed on lap 29 of 125 under the first of three cautions. He restarted eighth after the third caution on lap 91, caught and passed Elliott Sadler for second place with ten laps left and ran down Busch for the lead on lap 124. Continue reading