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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 →

2014 Great American Rookie Class’ Attends Multi-faceted Seminar at Daytona

Nearly 70 drivers representing NASCAR’s weekly, touring and national series attended the 2014 NASCAR Rookie Seminar, held Feb. 19, 2014 at Daytona International Speedway   Photo - Chris Trotman/Getty Images
Nearly 70 drivers representing NASCAR’s weekly, touring and national series attended the 2014 NASCAR Rookie Seminar, held Feb. 19, 2014 at Daytona International Speedway
Photo – Chris Trotman/Getty Images

There’s much more to racing these days than, well, racing. That was the overall message delivered to 66 eager young drivers Wednesday at the 2014 NASCAR Rookie Seminar.

Call those 66 the “Great American Rookie Class.” It sure looked like that, with the seminar taking place next to Daytona International Speedway’s Victory Lane where on Sunday, the winner of the Great American Race, the Daytona 500, will celebrate winning stock car racing’s biggest race. Continue reading →