At Martinsville Speedway the race winner at NASCAR’s highest level has received a grandfather clock. Jimmie Johnson now has 8 of those timepieces after blowing away the field in Sunday’s STP Gas Booster 500.
NASCAR spent almost the entire year developing its 2013 car in hopes the "Gen 6" model will dramatically improve the racing. After his first test drive Tuesday, NASCAR's most popular driver approved of the car.
Brad Keselowski has won his first NASCAR championship. The 28-year-old Detroit native clinched the Sprint Cup title Sunday when fellow title contender Jimmie Johnson pulled out of the season finale because of a parts failure.
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon avoided suspension Monday when NASCAR instead fined him $100,000 and docked him 25 points for intentionally wrecking Clint Bowyer at Phoenix International Raceway.
When the fighting stopped, the oil had dried and the last of the wrecked cars had been towed away, Brad Keselowski found himself on the brink of a first Sprint Cup title for himself and team owner Roger Penske.
Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski are in quite a fight for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. Johnson has a bigger edge after a slugfest in Texas that included some hard banging late.Jimmie Johnson has a bigger edge in the Chase for the Sprint Cup after a slugfest in Texas that included some hard banging late.
Five-time series champion Jimmie Johnson raced to his seventh career victory on NASCAR's trickiest oval Sunday, and the triumph helped him erase a seven-point deficit and supplant Brad Keselowski as the points leader with three events remaining.