A native of Austin, TX, Austin Wayne Self’s dream is to drive his way from the Lone Star to NASCAR. And like many future racers in NASCAR’s top-series, Austin’s racing dreams began at a very tender age of just four-years-old. Continue reading
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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
Prediction is an interesting word, because in reality no one can really predict what will happen in the future.
But what’s interesting is that for NASCAR fans, this time of year brings on a strong urge to give an opinion about what you think will or will not happen in the upcoming season.
Well, this year is no different and our Fan4Racing team is accepting the challenge, by pulling out our crystal ball and providing our 2013 predictions for the Sprint Cup Series via seven questions. We’d love hearing your predictions too, so go ahead and indulge yourself by using your own crystal ball and share your responses by commenting with your 2013 predictions to the seven questions below: Continue reading
This is a big week for NASCAR with Media Week kicking off today in Charlotte, NC.
Stay tuned to Fan4Racing for updates as we post coverage throughout the day and this week, along with any other NASCAR news nuggets we find on the net. Continue reading