NASCAR

In NASCAR playoffs, a positive coronavirus test means you’re out

By Paul F. Ford 2 weeks ago

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR has resolved it will not grant COVID-19 relief throughout the playoffs, that means a favourable coronavirus exam will finish a driver’s championship bid.

The playoffs start off Sunday at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina with out a security web for the 16 members throughout the pandemic. It is really up to each driver to secure them selves from COVID-19, comprehension there is no cushion for lacking a race.

“I’m most likely not going to go to college or university and hit up a keg stand,” Clint Bowyer said. “If you have COVID, you just cannot race.

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This hall-of-famer was the first Black American full-time competitor in NASCAR history

By Paul F. Ford 3 weeks ago

Wendell Oliver Scott was the first Black American entire-time competitor in NASCAR heritage. In the course of the time interval of the Civil Rights Movement, Wendell Scott liked absolutely nothing much more than to seize the steering wheel and go as quick as he could on the race observe. Right now, we are remembering the hall-of-famer on what would have been his 99th birthday. 


In accordance to ESPN’s movie on the driver, The Dixie Circuit was economically battling and couldn’t fill its seats at the observe, and as a marketing layout, they started searching for a Black particular person to

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NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson enamored with IndyCar after test

By Paul F. Ford 2 months ago

Jimmie Johnson finally fulfilled his childhood dream of driving an Indy vehicle with a exam session Tuesday. When the seven-time NASCAR champion concluded turning laps, he was offered on figuring out how to race up coming calendar year in the IndyCar Collection.

“It only lit the fireplace extra. I want to do this extra than ever just before,” Johnson reported in a phone job interview with The Associated Press. “It was a little something new, a little something diverse. NASCAR has been so good to me, and I am so proud of the results I’ve had. But to attempt a

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NASCAR hosts largest crowd at a sporting event since pandemic

By Paul F. Ford 2 months ago

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Clint Bowyer hopped off his pit stand at Bristol Motor Speedway to discover he’d gained the admirer vote to progress into NASCAR’s All-Star race — an announcement achieved by a roar from the grandstands.

It was not the raucous ovation ordinarily heard in Thunder Valley, but soon after 4 months of in the vicinity of silence, it was better than absolutely nothing.

Up to 30,000 enthusiasts were being authorized to attend Wednesday night’s race, NASCAR’s biggest with spectators because the coronavirus pandemic shut down sporting activities in March. Attendance figures were being not launched, but it appeared

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NASCAR deals with new rules, feuds and more fans at Talladega

By Paul F. Ford 3 months ago

NASCAR’s return to racing shifts to Talladega Superspeedway, with new regulations in area right after Ryan Newman’s frightful crash in the time-opening Daytona 500.

The Alabama observe will acknowledge up to 5,000 lovers Sunday — with at minimum a person NASCAR team experiencing a coronavirus scare — although NASCAR will be on the lookout for the freshly banned Confederate flag.

Corey LaJoie and Denny Hamlin are in a bizarre feud that begun on social media and escalated right up until NASCAR intervened past weekend by summoning both of those drivers to a confront-to-confront conference. And Joey Logano, wrecked past thirty

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