Truck in Kentucky Speedway parking lot catches fire during race (Getty Images)   A man was pulled from a burning truck in the parking lot behind the grandstands at Kentucky Speedway during Saturday night’s Sprint Cup Series race. Ky Speedway GM Mark Simendinger says fire started in cabin of white pick up truck w person inside. Person was pulled out by track responders — Mark Story … [Read more...]

Dale Earnhardt's grandson to run tribute scheme at Darlington The No. 32 GoFas Racing car will look familiar at Darlington in September. The team unveiled its throwback paint scheme for the event and it's a tribute to Dale Earnhardt's Wrangler-sponsored car. Earnhardt had Wrangler sponsorship before his iconic No. 3 was black and sponsored by Goodyear. Jeffrey Earnhardt, Dale's grandson and … [Read more...]

Quick takeaways from Sonoma: A final lap to remember Throughout 2016 we may have way too many quick thoughts for our post-race posts. So consider our Takeaways feature to be the home of our random and sometimes intelligent musings. Sometimes the post may have a theme. Sometimes it may just be a mess of unrelated thoughts. Make sure you tweet us your thoughts after the race or email your … [Read more...]

Power Rankings: Figuring out where to slot Tony Stewart 1. Kurt Busch (LW: 1): The Kurt Busch top-10 train is still on the tracks. Busch got his 14th top-10 finish in the first 16 races by finishing 10th. He qualified fourth, though quickly fell towards the back of the top 10 once the race got going. Busch said his struggles were because of a lack of rear grip; something that's imperative at … [Read more...]

Tony Stewart slams Denny Hamlin out of the way to break winless streak Your browser does not support iframes.Tony Stewart's 84-race winless streak is over. And it was snapped with a doorslam. Stewart knocked Denny Hamlin out of the way on the final corner of the final lap of Sunday's race at Sonoma when Hamlin's car slid up high on entrance into the hairpin corner. [Related: Quick takeaways … [Read more...]

Gallagher issues statement apologizing for fight with Townley Your browser does not support iframes. Spencer Gallagher has publicly apologized for his role in a fight with John Wes Townley during Saturday night's Truck Series race. Townley and Gallagher fought after the two collided for the second time in the race. Townley was unhappy with Gallagher and went after him. Gallagher, as to be … [Read more...]

Carl Edwards beats AJ Allmendinger for pole at Sonoma Carl Edwards looks like he's a heavy favorite at Sonoma. Edwards was fast in both practice sessions Friday and put up the fastest lap of Saturday's qualifying session in both the first and second rounds, beating AJ Allmendinger for the pole. Allmendinger, the pole winner last season, provisionally posted the fastest lap of the final … [Read more...]

Jeff Gordon 'flattered' by possible talk show interest Jeff Gordon certainly isn't ruling out the possibility he could become a talk show host. Gordon has been mentioned as a candidate to succeed Michael Strahan as Kelly Ripa's co-host on "Live!" Gordon was asked about the possibility on Saturday at Sonoma and said he was flattered about the interest. “Well, I’m flattered that my name has … [Read more...]

No. 95 team's data got hacked this spring and paid ransom to get it back Circle Sport Leavine Family Racing had a run-in with hackers this spring. The team said its data got hacked in April and it was forced to pay the hackers a ransom to get it back. The team said it houses everything on Dropbox and first noticed odd activity when a flurry of files was being uploaded to the file hosting and … [Read more...]

Jimmie Johnson details what outlines could be made to plate racing Jimmie Johnson revealed Friday what drivers would like to see change at restrictor plate races. The style of racing that happens at Daytona and Talladega was a dominant topic following the Talladega race in May when three cars got airborne. Many ideas (including here) were bandied about as possible ways to tweak or outright … [Read more...]