How far back is too far? And who's hot vs. who's not Nov 20, 2009
Alan Kulwicki, who was rookie of the year in 1986 and won the Winston Cup championship in 1992, gets ready to go at Charlotte Motor Speedway in October 1987. Kulwicki was among those killed in a plane crash near Bristol, Tenn. (News & Observer -- Sports)
North Wilkesboro's wild 'Rush Through the Brush' Nov 6, 2009
New owners moved the track's two Winston Cup Series dates to larger venues. One went to New Hampshire International Speedway and the other to Texas Motor Speedway. (News & Observer -- Sports)
NASCAR now mostly embraces Chase Sep 20, 2009
Certainly the idea that begat NASCAR s Chase for the Sprint Cup - formerly the Nextel Cup, and the Winston Cup before that - was going to take some time to catch on, before the 10-race playoff among the top 12 point-getters of the 26-race regular season was universally embraced as the format by which NASCAR determined the champion of its premier touring series ... While Johnson said winning the championship with the old rules was much tougher, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, Jeff Gordon, who... (Boston Globe)
Father knows best ... Kenseth vs. Kenseth Sep 2, 2009
St. Bede Academy junior Ross Kenseth grew up in the shadow of racing along side his dad, 2003 Winston Cup champion Matt Kenseth, before eventually starting a racing career of his own. On Sunday, the two Kenseths had a family first as they squared off against each other for the first time in a pair of 50-lap Late Model feature races at the Madison International Speedway. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Chase Elliott following his dream, dad's footsteps Aug 27, 2009
Though he wasn't around in 1988 when his father won the Winston Cup championship, as Sprint Cup was then known, Elliott has been going to racetracks since he was a baby and has seen plenty of his father's 804 starts on NASCAR's top level and a few of the 44 wins by the Motorsports Hall of Famer. It's why Elliott started racing dirt bikes and go-karts around the yard as soon as he was big enough to hold the handles and put his foot down. (MSNBC -- Sports)
A true Petty experience Jul 19, 2009
Perhaps the most unique pieces are the trophy Petty was presented for winning the 1975 Winston Cup, a full-sized jukebox loaded with the top-selling country songs of the day and a full-up Mini Cooper pickup truck. The 6-foot-2 Petty, minus the always-present cowboy hat and boots, squeezes himself into the vehicle -- painted Petty blue, naturally -- and putters around Randelman, N.C.. (Florida Today)
Robbins, Chaffin, Burton included Jul 11, 2009
He competed in 35 Winston Cup events, with a fifth-place finish in Motorstate 400 at Michigan in 1974 being his top effort. He had six top-10 finishes overall. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Richard Petty Motorsports Jun 26, 2009
His father, Lee Petty started racing cars on the dirt tracks of North Carolina with the real drive them on the road stock cars and subsequently won three Grand National Championships (now Winston Cup) ... During his 32 years of racing career on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit, he won seven Winston Cup championships and received awards too numerous to list. (Suite101.com)
IndyCar driver capsules Apr 2, 2009
His father, Stan Barrett, was also a Hollywood stuntman and ran 19 NASCAR Winston Cup events between 1980 and 1990, as well as becoming the first person to exceed the speed of sound in a car. . (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Model, activist, race car driver Mar 27, 2009
Since Janet Guthrie became the first woman to compete in a Winston Cup superspeedway race when she finished 15th in the 1976 World 600 Race at Lowe's, only a handful of women have raced professionally. Wheeler says Munter, like other women drivers, just needs a few breaks. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
10 questions for NASCAR sponsor Michael Reath Mar 9, 2009
A: "He was originally in the northern NASCAR circuit, but after a couple of years of that, he moved south, to work with the Busch S 000017BD eries. Those are the boys who race the day before, on Saturdays. Many of the Sprint Cup drivers also run in these races, too. As time went on, Stoddard became a pretty big name in NASCAR. He was the crew chief for Jeff Burton, who had 14 wins in Winston Cup over a period of years. He's now Boris' partner ---- they're both co-owners of the team." ... After... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Opinion: Kenseth the toast of Wisconsin Feb 16, 2009
Kenseth's win once again brought comparisons of his career to that of Alan Kulwicki, who was tragically killed in a plane crash in 1993, less than six months after becoming the first Wisconsin native to win what then was called the Winston Cup championship ... Kulwicki also left Wisconsin to move to North Carolina to pursue his NASCAR dreams, eventually winning the 1992 Winston Cup title as the last owner/driver to achieve that feat. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Dynasty Derailed Feb 14, 2009
Richard Petty didn't always drive for Petty Enterprises Inc. Over the 1984-85 Winston Cup Series seasons, Petty drove a car owned by Mike Curb of Curb Records fame. Kyle Petty carried the PEI banner into battle in 1984, but the team made only four starts with two drivers in 1985. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Terry Labonte gets ride for Daytona 500 Feb 7, 2009
Two-time Winston Cup champion will drive for newly-formed Prism team. Jonathan Ferrey / Getty Images fileTwo-time Cup champion Terry Labonte will race in the Daytona 500 for Prism Motorsports. (MSNBC -- Sports)
