Thursday, June 21, 2012

NASCAR

  • Stock cars are rumbling, 850-horsepower monsters built to go real fast and turn left around oval tracks. But this weekend those bulky machines leave their natural habitat.
  • (Inside Bay Area)
  • The Challenge: Twitter just unveiled major changes to how they handle branded hash tags. Marketers have to act quickly to keep up. Twitter ran their first TV ad last week. Their target audience? Marketers.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • NASCAR has increased the ground clearance of the side skirts on Sprint Cup cars again in hopes of improving the aerodynamics of the cars.
  • (Sporting News)
  • It is time for both the Cup series and the Nationwide series to hit the road courses this weekend, but the races will be thousands of miles.
  • (Bay News 9)
  • As an example of how difficult it is to land a Sprint Cup Series ride, former two-time Nationwide Series champion Randy LaJoie cited Mark Martin. Now 53, Martin retired, came back full-time and is still running 25 races.
  • (Daily Press)
  • · The track opened as a 2.52-mile road course and drag strip in 1968. · The first NASCAR Sprint Cup race was held in 1989. · The first nine races were 300 kilometers and switched to a 350k format in 1998. · The track was reconfigured to 1.
  • (Auto Racing Daily)
  • Speaking with reporters after Dale Earnhardt Jr.s win at Michigan, his crew chief, Steve Letarte, was asked whether Letarte was more relieved or excited that Earnhardts four-year winless streak was finally over.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • NASCAR runs its first two road-course races of the season this weekend with the Sprint Cup race in Sonoma, Calif. and the Nationwide Series race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.
  • (Sporting News)
  • WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart won a race in North Dakota, but it wasnt the feature. Stewart has raced in West Fargo several times in recent years, driving late models and sprint cars.
  • (Stamford Advocate)

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