Indianapolis Motor Speedway: The Quiet Wild Card
At face value, this makes zero sense: Sunday’s race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway might rank right up there with Sonoma, Daytona, Talladega and Watkins Glen as “wild-card” tracks in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regular season.
Anyone can win…and nab an all-but-guaranteed spot in Chase for the Sprint Cup. Continue reading
Anticipation Builds for Launch of Historic Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup
Free Two-Day Fan Fest Culminates with Live Show Featuring All 2014 Chase Drivers; Fans Can Enter Sweepstakes to Win VIP Experience
NASCAR® announced today that Chase Grid™ Live Sponsored by Toyota and Sprint will make its début in downtown Chicago on September 10-11. The free outdoor event takes place on North Michigan Avenue and culminates with a two-hour live show featuring all 16 Chase for the Sprint Cup drivers, just days before the first Challenger Round debuts at Chicagoland Speedway. Continue reading
Guests include K&N West driver, James Bickford talking about his 2014 season and his recent win at State Line Speedway in Idaho. Bickford is a cousin to Sprint Cup driver Jeff Gordon.
Late Model driver, Todd Gilliland talks about racing with his father David and grandfather Butch during ‘Family Night’ at Irwindale Speedway and finishing third.
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NASCAR Introduces Special Paint Scheme Elements
For Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship Contenders
New Color Schemes Celebrate Members of the Chase Grid
Celebrating the accomplishments of drivers contending for the 2014 Sprint Cup Series championship, NASCAR has released several new elements to the paint schemes of race cars making the 16-driver Chase Grid.
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Guests for this episode include Sprint Cup Series driver David Gilliland, from Front Row Motorsports talking about a family first – racing with his father Butch and son Todd at Irwindale Event Center on July 19th.
Also, Jim Cohan, President/CEO of Irwindale Event Center talks about reopening the track, events July 19th and their 2014 season. And Jason Galvin, Director of Communications and Announcer at Irwindale Event Center talks about his experience at the track over the years.
During the show we giveaway the LA Racing Experience to a lucky fan – Courtesy of Irwindale Event Center.
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Note: There were technical issues at the beginning of the show that were resolved allowing us to continue. Also, David Gilliland does join the conversation toward the end and continues beyond our live broadcast via the Podcast: Listen to the entire Podcast right here…