EDWARDS + EXCITMENT = SONOMA

Carl Edwards No.99 Aflac Roush Racing Ford took the lead on Lap 85 and ran away with it, out racing Jeff Gordon No.24 Panasonic Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet to the finish Sunday at the Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at Sonoma Raceway. The two-pit stop strategy of his crew chief, Jimmy Fennig, paid off. […]

A IS FOR AGGRESSION

Close Encounters of the NASCAR Kind. Aggressive racing seemed to be the theme this weekend. Almost every driver interviewed by the media was specifically asked about the aggressive driving – of late, and especially at road races AGGRESSION: 1.the action of a state in violating by force the rights of another state, particularly its territorial […]

IT’S GO TIME

Sunday morning at Sonoma Raceway for the Toyota/SaveMart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup race, and the hills are alive with the sound of 820 hp stock car engines. The garage is filled with cars revving engines, lucky fans with Hot Garage Passes, and bustling crew members everywhere. Those who want to see and be seen are […]

LARSON LEARNED TO SHIFT

Pole Sitter Kyle Larson No.42 Clorox Chevrolet won the Carneros 200 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Sonoma Raceway Saturday afternoon. He led almost every foot of the race, only temporarily losing the lead for one corner on Lap 51 of the 66-lap race after one of the several restarts. His margin of victory […]

McMURRAY & LARSON ON NASCAR POLES

Jamie McMurray No.1 Cessna Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Racing Chevrolet has the pole for Sunday’s Toyota/SaveMart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at Sonoma Raceway with a blistering lap of 96.350 mph/74.354 seconds. He and 21 other drivers broke the existing qualifying track record of 95.262 mph/1:15.203 seconds set June 2012 by Marcos Ambrose. […]

SATURDAY COMES EARLY

It’s Saturday morning at Sonoma Raceway for the NASCAR Toyota/SaveMart 350 weekend, and the activities are off to an early start. In the NASCAR Sprint Cup garage, tech and scrutineering are in full swing, so much so that the cars are coming out of one of the checkpoints faster than the follow-up scrutineers can check […]

FASTER FRIDAY

The tempo picked up for the second practice of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Friday afternoon at Sonoma Raceway. Although the top driver order didn’t change much during the ninety-minute session, Clint Bowyer No.15 was faster at 95.988 mph/74.634 seconds than he was in the earlier session, when he was second fastest. For this later […]

FAST AND FURIOUS FRIDAY

Fast Friday was just that for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Sonoma Raceway for the first practice of the day. After half of the session with no changes at all in the top ten positions, then one by one drivers jumped to the top of the charts, with Kurt Busch No.41 Haas Automation Cheverolet […]

SUNNY SIDE UP

The weather for Fast Friday is warm and beautiful at Sonoma Raceway for the Toyota-SaveMart 350 NASCAR weekend. This is the first of two road course races this season for the Sprint Cup Series. Also on the weekend’s schedule is the Carneros 200 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Series race, as well as the US […]