Articles filed under Auto Racing
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With tears flowing, Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets another shot at the Daytona 500 as a team ownerFeb 14, 2025 6:44 pm - Dale Earnhardt Jr. blinked back tears as the moment hit him at Daytona International Speedway — a track bursting with triumph and tragedy for his family — that he was, with a country star and a NASCAR champ in tow, back in the Daytona 500.
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Oh, baby! Bubba Wallace celebrates his 1st win at Daytona with his newborn son and a new outlookFeb 13, 2025 9:22 pm - Bubba Wallace won the first of two qualifying races for the Daytona 500. He showed enough speed to make him one of the favorites heading into "The Great American Race." Wallace will start third in the Daytona 500 behind pole-sitter Chase Briscoe and Austin Cindric.
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What’s the difference between racing Indy 500 and Daytona 500? Drivers who have tried both explainFeb 13, 2025 3:08 pm - They are the signature spectacles in each racing series, the Indianapolis 500 and all its pageantry with more than a century of tradition and milk drinking in open wheel racing, and the Daytona 500, NASCAR's season opener run under the Florida sun at the unofficial home of the "birthplace of speed."
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Briscoe gives Toyota its first Daytona 500 pole as Johnson and Truex also lock into NASCAR openerFeb 12, 2025 9:54 pm - Chase Briscoe led a banner night for Toyota in qualifying for the Daytona 500 by winning the pole for NASCAR's "Great American Race." It is the first Daytona 500 pole for Briscoe, who moved to Joe Gibbs Racing this season when Stewart-Haas Racing closed at the end of 2024.
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NASCAR’s lone Black Cup driver Bubba Wallace ‘couldn't care less’ if Trump attends Daytona 500Feb 12, 2025 5:23 pm - Bubba Wallace said he "couldn't care less" if Donald Trump attends the Daytona 500 on Sunday, nearly five years after the president accused the NASCAR Cup Series' only Black full-time driver of perpetrating "a hoax" when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall.
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Edwards and Rudd walked away from NASCAR and never looked back. Their reunion is at the Hall of FameFeb 06, 2025 5:29 pm - Carl Edwards and Ricky Rudd had very little overlap in their respective NASCAR careers. Edwards only entered the the elite Cup Series in 2004 — a mere 67 races before Rudd ended his 32-year career — so the two never got a chance to know one another. But two things tie Edwards and Rudd together — when each decided to retire, both essentially vanished from the NASCAR scene, and, on Friday night they will return to their old racing community as inductees of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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Penske's pair of Porsches dominate as The Captain wins Rolex 24 at Daytona for 2nd consecutive yearJan 26, 2025 7:54 pm - DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Roger Penske started his 59th season in motorsports the same way he closed last year — as a champion. Porsche Penske Motorsport on Sunday won the Ro...
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Remembering those we’ve lost: Notable sports deaths in 2024Dec 28, 2024 6:00 am - Willie Mays. Pete Rose. Fernando Valenzuela. Carl Erskine. And last week, Rickey Henderson. The sports world lost so many legends in 2024, but it felt like baseball suff...
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F1 great Ayrton Senna’s high-octane life the focus of new Netflix series about racing championNov 27, 2024 12:52 pm - Thirty years after his death in a high-speed crash viewed by millions around the world, Formula One champion Ayrton Senna’s high-octane life is also about to play out in the six-episode Netflix series “Senna” debuting Friday, Nov. 29.
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Verstappen captures 4th F1 championship after Mercedes sweep of Las Vegas Grand PrixNov 24, 2024 6:41 pm - LAS VEGAS — Asked how he planned to celebrate his fourth consecutive Formula 1 championship, Max Verstappen did a quick scan of the room searching for a drop of alcohol. ...