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Track Services Personnel From Across the Country Gather at Charlotte Motor Speedway for Safety Training

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A track services worker extinguishes a simulated car fire along pit road during track services training at Charlotte Motor Speedway over the weekend. More than 150 track services workers from 10 tracks across the country participated in the training, which Charlotte Motor Speedway has hosted annually since 1991 Photo - Charlotte Motor Speedway

A track services worker extinguishes a simulated car fire along pit road during track services training at Charlotte Motor Speedway over the weekend. More than 150 track services workers from 10 tracks across the country participated in the training, which Charlotte Motor Speedway has hosted annually since 1991
Photo – Charlotte Motor Speedway

As it has annually for more than two decades, Charlotte Motor Speedway welcomed more than 150 track safety professionals over the weekend for a two-day training session to hone their skills and prepare for the upcoming race season.

Personnel from 10 NASCAR facilities – including Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Martinsville Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway – received hands-on safety training for all events at the speedway. Leading the way in safety training, Charlotte Motor Speedway has been offering such classes since 1991. Continue reading →

Rebranded Axalta Coating Systems Remains Committed to Hendrick Motorsports and Jeff Gordon

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DuPont-Carlyle-GroupThe Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms with a portfolio of businesses that includes Hertz Rental Car, Allison Transmission and Dunkin’ Donuts, announced today that it has acquired DuPont’s paint business. Although the people, products and technologies will remain the same, the paint business, which sponsors the No. 24 Chevrolet of Hendrick Motorsports and driver Jeff Gordon in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, has been rebranded as Axalta Coating Systems. Continue reading →

More 2013 Changes for NASCAR

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By Jordan Dodson

NASCAR has announced new changes coming in 2013. Changes affect all series.

As NASCAR introduces the 2013 car there are even more changes to come and some of those changes were outlined in a press conference with Brian France at Homestead-Miami Speedway this past weekend. Continue reading →

Brad Keselowski – Your 2012 Sprint Cup Champion

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Brad Keselowski Wins the 2012 Sprint Cup Championship
Photo – Yahoo Sports

By Jordon Dodson

Entering the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, all Brad Keselowski had to do was finish 16th or better, no matter what Jimmie Johnson did. Johnson had to put all the marbles on the table for a shot at his sixth championship. Continue reading →

Gordon Scores Victory, Keselowski Becomes Champion

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Keselowski Celebrates First Sprint Cup Championship
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By Jason Schultz

A new champion has been crowned – Brad Keselowski is now on top of the world as the new Sprint Cup Series Champion.

After three full-time seasons in the Sprint Cup Series, Keselowski is now the champion. More notably, Roger Penske is finally a Sprint Cup Series Championship winning owner after forty plus years in the sport. Keselowski raced his race all afternoon and he, his team and owner were rewarded with a championship. Continue reading →