NASCAR Kyle Busch

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NASCAR XFINITY Series, Kansas Lottery 300 Preview

Las Vegas Native Gragson Competing with Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2017

Noah Gragson at 8:40 pm ET on Monday, October 10, 2016. Photo - KBM
Noah Gragson at 8:40 pm ET on Monday, October 10, 2016. Photo – KBM

Noah Gragson is our guest on Fan4Racing NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, October 10, 2016 at 8:40 pm ET. Call 929-477-1790 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite or @Sal_Sigala with any questions or comments during our LIVE broadcast.

Last Friday, Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that 18-year old Las Vegas native Noah Gragson is competing for them in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for the 2017 season.

The NASCAR Next success story of Noah Gragson is a great fit with KBM as his career began on the same grounds as team owner Kyle Busch, getting his start at the age of 13 in Bandoleros at the Las Vegas Bullring – a 0.375-mile paved oval. Moving on to the Legends division in 2014, Gragson won the Young Lion Road Course champion and began racing in the Super Late Model division at the Nevada track.

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Jimmie Johnson Triumphs at Charlotte as Five Chase Drivers Fall on Hard Times

After Sunday’s victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson can proclaim justifiably ‘The Boys are Back in Town.’

But for five other Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers, all of whom finished 30th or worse in the rain-delayed Bank of America 500, the race ended in a medley of dire straits.

Taking the lead from Matt Kenseth after a restart on lap 317 of 334, Johnson pulled away to win by 1.474 seconds over the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Johnson put his No. 48 Chevrolet in Victory Lane for the third time this season, the eighth time at Charlotte – the third since the repaving of the track in March 2006 – and the 78th time in his career. Continue reading

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Preview

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams are preparing for racing 501 miles over 334 laps in the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday October 9th. NBC coverage begins at noon ET with radio coverage on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.

What to Watch For: Martin Truex Jr. tries to defend his spring Charlotte victory. He has won three of the last five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races and led the most laps in the two he didn’t win.

Joey Logano attempts to repeat as the Charlotte fall winner.

Jimmie Johnson looks to add to his track-record seven wins. Continue reading