New centralized licensing agency emerges for NASCAR
Mar 10, 2010 NASCAR News
Seven months of negotiations have put NASCAR and its top teams in position to create the first NASCAR Properties, a trust that will serve as a centralized licensing agency for the sport.
The unnamed unit will operate as a one-stop shop for licensees, but a key difference from other previously established league-licensing divisions is that revenue [...]
Helton: Keselowski getting air borne a “bigger issue for us”
Mar 9, 2010 Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, NASCAR News, Sprint Cup Series
NASCAR announced on Tuesday that they will be placing Carl Edwards on probation for the next three Sprint Cup Series races after he intentionally wrecked Brad Keselowski during the Kobalt Tools 500 on Sunday, which sent Keselowski’s No. 12 Dodge into the air.
However, the fact that Edwards wrecked Keselowski intentionally isn’t their biggest concern. [...]
Analysis: NASCAR sends out mixed message with penalty
Mar 9, 2010 Carl Edwards, NASCAR News, Opinion
Suspension? Fine? Points penalty?
Are you kidding?
NASCAR doled out none of the above to Carl Edwards for intentionally—and with malice aforethought—wrecking Brad Keselowski in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Keselowski’s Dodge flipped upside-down, slammed into the outside wall in the tri-oval at the 1.54-mile racetrack, landed on its roof and eventually turned upright before [...]
Carl Edwards Takes “Have At It, Boys” Racing One Step Too Far
Mar 8, 2010 Atlanta Motor Speedway, Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, NASCAR News, Opinion, Sprint Cup Series
When NASCAR announced at the beginning of the 2010 season that drivers could just let loose, be themselves, and participate in “have at it, boys” racing, all involved expected some fireworks.
But in today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Carl Edwards took that new sentiment one step too far, with a payback hit [...]
Tire issues plague Hendrick teams
Mar 7, 2010 Dale Earnhardt Jr, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin, Sprint Cup Series
HAMPTON, Ga.—Polesitter Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s No. 88 Chevrolet shook so violently he couldn’t see.
Mark Martin blew a left rear tire and slid through the infield. Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson—Gordon on two occasions—brought their cars to the pits just in time to avert disaster after they felt tires going down.
The net result was an off [...]
Camping World Truck Series kicked off an eventful Atlanta weekend
Mar 7, 2010 NASCAR News
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in Atlanta saw action from the very first lap when pole sitter, Ron Hornaday Jr., found himself in a three-wide situation with Kyle Busch and Matt Crafton. Contact was made between the No. 33 and No. 18 that resulted in an early exit for Hornaday. The No. 33 [...]
Keselowski flips as Edwards delivers payback
Mar 7, 2010 Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, Sprint Cup Series
It was an almost an exact replica of the April 2009 crash at Talladega between Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards. On lap 323, as Edwards was 159 laps down and Keselowski was working on what would have been a season-best sixth place finish, the caution came out for an accident on the front stretch. [...]
