NASCAR Pre-Season Breaking News for the Week of January 11, 2016
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Todd Gilliland at 9:30 pm ET on Monday, November 23, 2015. Photo – Todd Warshaw/Getty Images
Todd Gilliland is our guest on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, November 23, 2015 at 9:30 pm ET. Call 929-477-1790 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite, @Sal_Sigala or @beberly18 with any questions or comments during our LIVE broadcast.
As the youngest winner in K&N Pro Series West history, third generation driver Todd Gilliland won the Casino Arizona 100 with Bill McAnally Racing with his first series start in season finale at Phoenix International Raceway last weekend. His McAnally teammate, Chris Eggleston came home with the 2015 series championship title.
Gilliland was born in 1999, the first year Bill McAnally Racing won a K&N Pro West title with Sean Woodside. McAnally added championships with Brendan Gaughan in 2000 and 2001 and Eric Holmes in 2008 and 2010. Gilliland turned 15 in May and is son of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver David Gilliland. The young Gilliland drove his No. 54 to the same Victory Lane his dad did in the series ten years ago. Continue reading
Our guests include NASCAR Lira Motorsports drivers, David Levine, and Kyle Weatherman chatting about their NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at Homestead-Miami Speedway this coming weekend.
NASCAR K&N West 2015 champion Chris Eggleston at Bill McAnally Racing chats about his 2015 season and winning the series title at Phoenix International Raceway last Thursday night.
Join host Sharon Burton and co-host Sal Sigala every Monday night 8:30 to 10 pm ET as we bring fans the smartest racing talk around on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk! Joining our round table is our Fan4Racing writer, Brian Eberly.
NASCAR Hot Topic Sound Off is 10 to 10:30 pm ET with Sharon Burton hosting an interactive discussion with co-host Chris Knight.
We’re chatting about the hottest topics from the weekend of NASCAR racing at Phoenix International Raceway, for the ninth race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race, as well as the XFINITY, Camping World Truck Series and the K&N Pro Series West finale.
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Our show begins at 8:30 pm ET on Monday, November 16, 2015.
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Chris Eggleston at 9:30 pm ET on Monday, November 16, 2015. Photo – Getty Images
Chris Eggleston is our guest on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, November 16, 2015 at 9:30 pm ET. Call 929-477-1790 or tweet @Fan4RacingSite @Sal_Sigala or @beberly18 with any questions or comments during our LIVE broadcast.
With just 12 points separating the top-four drivers before the start of the Casino Arizona 100 at Phoenix International Raceway, leader Chris Eggleston did what he needed to bring his team owner his sixth championship title by the end of the NASCAR K&N West season finale.
Finishing 11th, Eggleston put his No. 99 team in position to win his first K&N West title ending his 2015 championship bid against some tough competitors. Continue reading
A serendipitous sequence of pit stops and a drizzle that turned into a downpour made a winner of Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Sunday night’s Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, with a delayed start moving the race from daytime to under the lights by rain in the afternoon.
But again, halting the race due to rain 93 laps short of its scheduled distance of 312 laps was hardly the satisfying conclusion Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch or Joey Logano had hoped for.
Eliminating those four drivers from the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup was disappointing, while defending champion Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. joined Jeff Gordon in next Sunday’s Championship Round at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Continue reading