In Sunday’s Pepsi 500, Jimmie Johnson grabbed the points lead from Mark Martin with his California victory. Johnson’s win also left runner-up Jeff Gordon conceding that his Hendrick Motorsports teammate is in a class by himself.
Brandon Bernstein ended a more than two-year winless streak that spanned 52 races when he blew away Antron Brown in the final round of the NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel event held just outside of Richmond, VA. Also picking up wins were Mike Edwards in…
Inland Northwest Sprint Car Association driver Mark Jones picked up the inaugural win at Columbia Motor Speedway in the first running of the Northwest Sprint Car Invitational.
For Tim Shaffer it was his 12th career World of Outlaws A-Feature win and his first victory in the state of New York.
Joey Logano rallied from 25th position after Greg Biffle forced him into the backstretch wall while Biffle was passing for the lead on Lap 50 of 152.
Larry Dixon, who notched his eighth No. 1 qualifier of 2009 and 39th of his career in the Al-Anabi dragster, sliced his deficit behind NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel points leader, Tony Schumacher, from 54 to 47 points with a 3.783-second pass at 311.27 mph.
As more and more fans in other time zones began watching NASCAR events, fewer and fewer of them wanted to do that watching early in the morning.
Motorsports correspondent Doug Pace keeps up with motorsports news and notes from around the region.
