By Harrison Card
NASCAR season concludes with a nail-biter.
Tony Stewart is the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion and is also the winner of the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Stewart gained the championship the old-fashioned way: …

By Harrison Card
Chase for the Sprint Cup concludes next Sunday.
Once again, Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart finished one place ahead of the other. However, this week at Phoenix, it was Carl Edwards in second and …

By Harrison Card
Stewart narrows Carl Edwards lead to 3 points.
Tony Stewart did it again this weekend, winning the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. For the fourth time in eight Chase for …

By Harrison Card

Three races remain in 2011 Chase.
Tony Stewart went from a long shot at the beginning of the Chase for the Sprint Cup to the winner of three Chase races. Stewart again took the …

By Harrison Card
Five-time chase champion’s reign appears over.
The Chase for the Sprint Cup entered Talladega Superspeedway Sunday for an unpredictable wild card race Sunday. Restrictor plate racing requires two car tandem drafting techniques. Therefore, Talladega …

By Harrison Card
Jimmie Johnson’s run at a sixth NASCAR championship suddenly stalled on Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was Matt Kenseth who took the checkered flag in front of Kyle Busch and Carl …

By Harrison Card
Chase for the Spring Cup
Jimmie Johnson is at it again, making the Chase for the Sprint Cup look easy. Johnson cruised to his first win of the Chase at Kansas Speedway on Sunday. …

By Harrison Card
Kurt Busch grabbed the win in NASCAR’s third race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup at Dover on Sunday afternoon. Busch managed to pass off five-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson on a …

By Harrison Card
Chase for the Cup
NASCAR brought the rolling show of the Chase for the Sprint Cup back to New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend. The first race of the Chase in years past, the …

By Harrison Card
IndyCar’s championship battle got very interesting this weekend due to a number of unexpected events at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan. The race was completed on the road course portion of the track …

2011 motorsports activity heats up.
By Harrison Card
NASCAR’s regular season ended Saturday night with Kevin Harvick’s win at Richmond. Now, 12 drivers will attempt to bring home the Sprint Cup Championship, NASCAR’s post-season chase for racing …

Very much a rags to riches story, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing went from a few dirt tracks to big time business in less than half a century. Given the rather …

I expected to hear something about this all along, so it came as no surprise to me that bankrupt automaker, General Motors, would be cutting back on its support of NASCAR.  After all, when your …

Kudos to us old guys! Mark Martin, who just passed the half century mark in January, zipped to a first place finish on Sunday while racing his #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at the Life Lock …

What’s Happening On The Track This Weekend
One of the most popular motorsport races of the year will be held this weekend, the 24 Hours of Le Mans (24 Heures du Mans) which is a race …

Sometimes it takes a movement by fans to bring about change in any sport, which is a good thing because fan participation ensures whether any sport succeeds or fails. With motorsports, fans are always clamoring …

Helio Castroneves has gone through more difficulties over the past year than many of his fellow drivers, but with legal problems now behind him, he managed to win his third consecutive race of the month …

Among NASCAR races, the Coca Cola 600 ranks up there with the best of them. Held on Memorial Day weekend at Lowe’s Motor Speedway near Charlotte, NC (Concord) this race is the longest one of …

This past week I put the finishing touches on my latest work, Finley Racing, a website with the race car enthusiast in mind. Initially launched in 2003 and owned by an actual race team, I …

Though it may seem to some that Toyota Motorsports is a recent addition to racing, the fact remains that NASCAR is one of the last beachheads that the Japanese automaker has sought to conquer. Dating …

Although the smallest of the Big Three automakers and now trailing Toyota in the number of drivers fielded, Dodge remains a potent force on the racetrack.
Will Dodge Keep Fielding Race Cars?
The future of Dodge Motorsports …

General Motors has been very active on the track, racing cars from just about every brand including Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Chevrolet. These days, Chevrolet has taken up the mantle as GM concentrates on …

Racing and Ford go together, a century plus heritage started by none other than Henry Ford himself in 1901.  In that year, Ford defeated Alexander Winton in a 10-lap race that was run on a …

If you were watching the Talladega 500 (Aaron’s 499) on Sunday and managed to be there at the end, you saw Carl Edwards’ #99 Claritin car involved in a horrific wreck. That accident sent Edwards …

I can’t help but listen to the sad plight of so many of my fellow Americans. Shoot, my fellow global citizens would be a more accurate description of the pain that is being felt worldwide!
I …