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Dropping a NASCAR engine into a street car is nothing new--one of our buddies has an old Chevy pickup sporting one of the fearsome V-8s. But there's dropping in an engine, and then there's the sort of work the Ring Brothers do. According to Mustangs Daily, at this year's SEMA show, we'll be treated...

Tony Stewart took to the Southern Iowa Speedway dirt track on Monday night to take part in a sprint car race. He wound up wrecking, and the crash was a rough one, as Stewart ended up breaking his right leg. Both the fibula and tibia... ouch. Because of the wreck, Stewart will have to sit out of the...

Campy commercials with F1 drivers are just a bit of sidework for NASCAR champion and all-around badass Tony Stewart. From 24 Hours of Lemons to dirt track sprint cars, if there's a race in Stewart's vicinity, chances are he's behind the wheel. Last night, for example, Stewart was racing a sprint...

If you're going to pace any racing event, you need to be driving something powerful. ESPN anchor Sage Steele will get to experience this at the upcoming Brickyard 400 NASCAR race because she is slated to pilot the leading machine. Our chariot of choice will be supplied by Chevrolet, and it's a good...

Racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr. has to drive a Chevrolet SS-based race car in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series as part of his contract terms with Hendrick Motorsports, but it’s interesting to see that one of his personal rides off the track is the car that precedes the SS, the Pontiac G8...

Kyle Busch hasn’t had the best of luck in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver has looked strong in virtually every race, but had so far managed just one podium finish with a second place at last week’s Food City 500. Kyle Busch again looked like the man to...

This weekend, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to the two-mile tri-oval in Fontana, California, for the Auto Club 400. While many of the Sprint Cup races hit the same track at different times of the year, the Auto Club 400 represents the series’ sole annual stop in Fontana. Blame it on...

When we penned the NASCAR Sprint Cup Food City 500 preview last week, we told you that our money would be on Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch for the win. When Busch put his Toyota Camry on pole for Sunday’s race, we began think we were onto something with our pre-qualifying prediction. In...

The NASCAR Sprint Cup series heads to Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee twice each year. Early in the season, it’s for this weekend’s Food City 500, while the Irwin Tools Night Race is held in late August. Though the two races run at different times of the year, under...

Matt Kenseth celebrated his 41st birthday in style, taking his Toyota Camry to victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Kobalt Tools 400 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver nursed worn tires while holding off a charge from Kasey Kahne in the closing laps. Kahne looked...

Carl Edwards couldn’t have scripted a better ending to Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Phoenix, Arizona. The Roush Fenway Racing driver lead 122 of 316 laps, but the most critical laps followed a green-white-checkered restart. Edwards held off a late-race charge...

After last weekend’s first full-length event with the Generation 6 Sprint Cup cars, the series heads west to the 1.0 mile tri-oval of Phoenix International Raceway. The Arizona track lacks both the length and the banking of Daytona, meaning speeds will be a bit more moderate for the 500...

Heading into this year’s Daytona 500, many thought “the big one” was inevitable. When a last lap crash during Saturday’s Nationwide Series race hurled debris from Kyle Larson’s wrecked car into the stands, injuring numerous spectators, many saw it as a potential...

When the green flag flies for the start of Sunday’s Daytona 500, Danica Patrick will earn the distinction of being the first woman driver to lead a Sprint Cup field into the first corner. Given her limited success in NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide series racing to date, the question...

Danica Patrick seems to have nearly as many detractors as she does fans. Those against the Stewart-Haas driver are quick to point out that during her entire IndyCar career, Patrick managed just one win, at Motegi, Japan, in 2008. On the other hand, her fans will remind you that she’s the...

When NASCAR introduced its “Car of Tomorrow” (COT) during the 2007 Sprint Cup season, it was supposed to make racing more affordable for teams and more entertaining for fans, as the one-size-fits-all body was designed to promote close racing. While the COT did encourage wheel-to-wheel...

With its new operator Team 211 Entertainment in charge, California’s Irwindale Speedway is once again ready to host a full year of motorsport events. The main event in 2013 will be NASCAR Home Tracks, whose return to Irwindale Speedway was confirmed recently by NASCAR business development...

Painting a NASCAR Sprint Cup car used to be a labor-intensive, time consuming process, which is why most teams carried a single livery (or paint scheme) throughout an entire season. Unless your primary sponsor changed, repainting a car for a single race wasn’t exactly cost-effective. The...

For almost 60 years NASCAR, and the cars and personalities that make up the sport, has been closely linked with American culture. From the hallowed grounds of Daytona International Speedway in Florida, to the Sonoma road course in California, the sport has created a lifetime worth of memories--some...

In two months, NASCAR’s 2013 season will begin in Daytona Beach with the Daytona Shootout, scheduled for Saturday, February 16. That doesn’t give teams a lot of time to shake down the new cars before the season starts, and all-new designs generally have some issues to resolve. At this...