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The rest of the season starts Sunday. Race one in the Chase for the Sprint Cup will try to take center stage this weekend as it clearly has not been the talk of the garage. 13 drivers will embark on their championship pursuit and having a good race is integral to winning the title. One slip up at Chicagoland Speedway could cost any driver their hopes for the rest of the Chase. With so much on the line, anything can and will happen.
The GEICO 400 will go green on Sunday, September 15, 2013 at around 2:16 PM ET. Each one of the 267 laps and 400.5 miles will matter in determining who gets a crucial jump on this year’s Chase. Sunday afternoon’s weather forecast calls for a 40% chance of storms with the high temperature being around 63 F. Fans can watch the race on ESPN or listen to it on MRN. Continue reading
Up next is NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series‘ 200 mile, 100 lap race, the Michigan National Guard 200 at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday, August 17th at 12:30pm ET. The television broadcast is the début of FOX Sports 1 starting at 12pm ET and the radio broadcast is found on MRN, and Sirius XM Channel 90. Continue reading
With a Saturday date at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, CO, the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West is back in action for the first time since June 22 at Sonoma, CA. NASCAR Next driver Michael Self has won three of the last four series events, but Derek Thorn – a two-time winner this season – has a slim three-point advantage over Self in the season standings. Cameron Hayley, also a participant in the NASCAR Next program, looks to score his first championship-event victory after starting the season off with a non-points triumph in the inaugural UNOH Battle At The Beach in Daytona. Hayley, who just celebrated his 17th birthday, has scored top-five finishes in five of six K&N West starts this season.
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour returns to Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, NH., for a make-up date after rain doused the originally scheduled date on May 11. Defending tour champion Doug Coby collected his first win of the season in the last event on July 13 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. NASCAR Next driver Ryan Preece has a commanding 44-point lead in the standings powered by wins in three of the last four races. The 22-year-old Preece led wire-to-wire a season ago at Monadnock.
The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1, on the heels of its two-race swing through Western Canada, heads to Autodrome St. Eustache (Quebec). It’s the series’ first visit to the .4-mile oval since July 2010.
For the most part, the media workers within NASCAR get to travel to the track every weekend. They get to take in the sights, take in the views, and have the track feeling week after week. I have always wanted to travel the NASCAR circuit and something struck me after New Hampshire. I found myself disappointed that I wasn’t traveling to the next race when the weekend came around, and that proved to myself that traveling the circus show called NASCAR is something I could do.
After sitting home and reflecting on my weekend at New Hampshire, I thought about how everyone I met there would be going to the next track soon and that sadly, I would not be part of the entourage. I know that I could be doing that one day, but all I wanted at that moment was to do it now. Getting the chance to visit cities across the country every weekend seems like an awesome thing to do and it’s something I hope to do someday.
By traveling with the sport, I would be able to smell the rubber, fuel, and so much more, every week. Those aren’t just the smells of NASCAR; they’re the smells that inspire me to keep chasing my dream so I can come home to those smells at the race track every weekend.
What I really proved to myself after New Hampshire was that traveling the schedule is something I would want as part of my life. Since I desperately missed it after doing it once, I knew at that point, that doing it for about 36 weeks can be done and comfortable for me. That eagerness of being at the track will return in three short weeks when I go to Watkins Glen, but between now and then, all I want to do is be at my home away from home, the race track.