Since its debut in the March 20, 1991, issue of National Speed Sport News, various formats of Looking Back have provided readers with a recap of motorsports history. Reviving this tradition as part of SPEED SPORT Insider, we recently ventured into the NSSN archives to see what was making headlines…
A multi-car crash during the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona Int’l Speedway. (HHP/David Graham photo) HARRISBURG, N.C. – California’s Logan Seavey topped the Chili Bowl, Nashville native Josef Newgarden won the Indianapolis 500, sprint car racer Logan Schuchart became an instant millionaire and the roar of NASCAR Cup Series engines…
Certain race car drivers are able to elevate their performance when the spotlight is at its brightest. Apparently, Cannon McIntosh, a 20-year-old midget sensation from Bixby, Okla., is among that select group. Consider his results during the annual Chili Bowl Nationals, midget racing’s premier event. McIntosh has won the Monday…
HARRISBURG, N.C. – The AP Stylebook puts a modern spin on the definition of trending: “Used to indicate that a particular topic, word, phrase or piece of content is getting a lot of attention on a social network, search engine or website. But for our purposes, we’ll take an old-school…
HARRISBURG, N.C. — I’m not very good at math, and I’ve never studied probability and statistics. Therefore, I’m guessing the odds of correctly predicting the top-three finishers in the 62nd running of the NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway are about the same as hitting the Powerball…
Long before he ever donned a fire suit and helmet, Terry McCarl had visions of organizing and promoting sprint car races. “Prior to the internet, SPEED SPORT and Hawkeye Racing News were how the promoters let the drivers and teams know what they had going on,” McCarl reminisced. “They would…
At 58 years old, no one needs to remind Terry McCarl that his days of pounding the cushion in a winged sprint car are rapidly coming to an end. “Yea, I’m slowly fading away,” the second-generation racer from Altoona, Iowa, told SPEED SPORT. “My wife (Lori) wishes I would have…
HARRISBURG, N.C. — Show me a person who believes history doesn’t repeat itself and I’ll show you a person who doesn’t know much about auto-racing history. On Sunday, June 4, third-generation driver Corey LaJoie substituted for Chase Elliott in the Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR Cup Series race at World Wide…
Since its rather humble beginnings as a sanctioning body in 1948, NASCAR has evolved from the dusty dirt tracks of the Southeast into a mainstream sport that recently raced through the streets of the nation’s second largest city.
HARRISBURG, N.C. – In response to our inquiry in last month’s column concerning racers named Race, we received the following email from longtime SPEED SPORT reader and ARCA President Ron Drager. “Keith, we have a third-generation ARCA Figure-8 driver at Flat Rock Speedway whose given name is Race Loving.” We’ve…
