Kyle Busch Dominates Rain-Shortened Nationwide Race at Phoenix

Kyle Busch, driver of the #54 Monster Energy Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane with the trophy after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Blue Jeans Go Green 200 at Phoenix International Raceway on March 1, 2014   Photo - Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images

Kyle Busch, driver of the #54 Monster Energy Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane with the trophy after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Blue Jeans Go Green 200 at Phoenix International Raceway on March 1, 2014
Photo – Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images

You can change the cars.

You can change the qualifying format.

You can change the weather from cloudy to sunny to rainy—multiple times.

But, no matter what you do, you can’t keep Kyle Busch out of Victory Lane at Phoenix International Raceway, at least not where the NASCAR Nationwide Series is concerned.

In Saturday’s Blue Jeans Go Green 200 at the one-mile track in the Sonoran desert, Busch dominated—again—leading 155 laps en route to his unprecedented third straight NNS victory at PIR and his seventh overall. Continue reading

Nationwide Series Blue Jeans Go Green 200 at Phoenix Preview

nnspirbjgg200oglThe Nationwide Series teams are at Phoenix International Raceway for the Blue Jeans Go Green 200 presented by Cotton, The Fabric of Our Lives and on Saturday, March 1st at Phoenix International Raceway, they’ll run 200 miles in 200 laps on the one-mile track. ABC starts their pre-race coverage at 3pm ET and the green flag will wave around 3:45 pm ET. Race coverage is also available on MRN, Sirius XM Radio, channel 90.   Continue reading

Camping World Truck Series Noteworthy Headlines from Daytona

Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 ToyotaCare Toyota, leads Timothy Peters, driver of the #17 Valvoline Toyota, to the checkered flag to win the Camping World Truck Series NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway on February 21, 2014   Photo - Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images

Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 ToyotaCare Toyota, leads Timothy Peters, driver of the #17 Valvoline Toyota, to the checkered flag to win the Camping World Truck Series NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway on February 21, 2014
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After a thrilling Camping World Truck Series finish at Daytona, teams are taking a break until their next race the Kroeger 250 at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, March 29th. Fox Sports 1 begins their coverage at 1 pm ET with the green flag waving around 1:30 pm ET. Race coverage is also available on MRN, Sirius XM Radio, channel 90 for all 131.5 laps covering 250 miles.

Here are a few noteworthy headlines from the series’ season-opener NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway. Continue reading

Hamlin Stays Undefeated as Wild Wreck Wraps Up Duel 2

 

Cars race past the green flag to start the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Duel 2 at Daytona International Speedway on February 20, 2014  Photo - Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images

Cars race past the green flag to start the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Duel 2 at Daytona International Speedway on February 20, 2014
Photo – Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images

The word ‘undefeated’ rarely comes up in NASCAR. Winning two straight races is an extremely hard task to carry out, but Denny Hamlin has followed in Kevin Harvick’s footsteps and has done just that during SpeedWeeks. Hamlin opened up SpeedWeeks by winning the Sprint Unlimited and now he is two-for-two at Daytona with his victory in the second Budweiser Duel. Continue reading

Kenseth Beats Out Harvick, Kahne in Thrilling First Duel

A general view of the start of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Duel 1 at Daytona International Speedway on February 20, 2014   Photo - Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images

A general view of the start of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Duel 1 at Daytona International Speedway on February 20, 2014
Photo – Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images

A very competitive first Budweiser Duel ended with Matt Kenseth beating Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne out by a nose. Kenseth earned the third starting spot for Sunday’s Daytona 500. Continue reading