This year’s Alabama Wildlife Federation / Alabama Army National Guard Wild Game Cook-Off is chock-full of famous local names to judge the unique flavors being cooked up by the competing teams. Guests will be treated to great food, fun times, and fast cars at the eighth annual event set for Saturday, Feb. 16 at Talladega Superspeedway. Continue reading
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
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NASCAR fans ready for the new season to begin, also have a lot of questions about the Sprint Cup Series‘ new Generation Six cars.
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Autoweek announced today, that fans can tune into a live-streamed town-hall discussion on autoweekracing.com to see the inaugural Autoweek Racing Conference: The Road to Daytona on Tuesday, Feb 5 at 9 am ET. Continue reading
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Ricky Stenhouse Jr, a two-time Nationwide Series champion, won’t be returning to defend his back-to-back championships, to make it three in a row this year. Instead, his Nationwide schedule will be partial, as he shifts his focus to the Sprint Cup series. He will be taking over the #17 at Roush-Fenway Racing, where he will be gunning for both the Rookie of the Year and the Sprint Cup series titles.
Stenhouse Jr is not the first driver and certainly not the last either, to campaign for both Rookie of the Year and the Cup title, as every driver that starts their first full season as a rookie is aiming to win both. The last driver to pull off a more successful rookie year was Denny Hamlin in 2006. Hamlin won Rookie of the Year and nearly succeeded in winning the championship before finishing 3rd in the points. Continue reading
Recently, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Danica Patrick announced publicly that they are now dating as they head into their Sprint Cup Rookie seasons. In turn, many members of the media have written about the new relationship between competitors. But this topic raises a question, how far is too far in covering an athlete’s personal life? Where do you draw the line?
Dale Earnhardt Jr. answered this question during a recent commercial shoot with Charlotte Motor Speedway. Continue reading