By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer For the 42nd consecutive year, the streets of Long Beach have come alive with the sounds of high-powered race cars screaming through the city streets, as the drivers of the Verizon IndyCar Series held their first practice for Sunday’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. At the end of the session, we saw a familiar sight: Penske-Chevrolet cars taking the top two spots. Juan Pablo Montoya, who took his first career CART race win at Long Beach some seventeen years ago, led the session withRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter & NASCAR Contributor Juan Pablo Montoya was the quickest man in opening practice for the 42nd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The Colombian logged a lap of 01:08.1290 that was just .2424s quicker than teammate Will Power. The AJ Foyt Racing cars of Jack Hawksworth and Takuma Sato both found their way into the top five with the Britton logging a lap of 1:18.4839s. Josef Newgarden split the two Foyt cars with the fourth quickest time and was followed by Sato. Practice was slowedRead More

SHOW #406 – Guest: Kyle Petty, recap the Texas weekend, News of the Week, Fantasy Racing, and a full Bristol Motor Speedway preview. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Toby Christie. ( Roughly 48:00 mins) DOWNLOAD HERE CREDITS: Hosts: Kerry Murphey & Toby Christie Executive Producer: Kerry Murphey Music: Russell Nash Audio Director Voice Over: Thomas Moog SUBSCRIBE FREE HERE RSS FEED RADIO STATIONS CLICK HERE SUBSCRIBE FROM iTUNES: Take us with you! Subscribe to our audio shows from iTunes, and they will automatically show up on your computer as soon asRead More

By Toby Christie, NASCAR Editor Kyle Busch has been great so far in 2016, and he’s in the midst of a hot streak. He also has a very good past at Bristol Motor Speedway, the site of this week’s Food City 500. Chances are Busch either wins again this weekend — for the third time in a row at the Sprint Cup level — or at the very least he contends. But there are a number of drivers who haven’t won yet in 2016 who are also not too shabbyRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Recently, NASCAR’s has had its history written and records broken by drivers such as Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, and Jimmie Johnson. This weekend, a 15-year-old driver, Todd Gilliland, has the opportunity to break a 50-year-old record set by Dan Gurney. Gurney is perhaps better known for his open-wheel racing career, where in Formula 1, he earned four wins and 19 podium finishes. Gurney competed in 17 NASCAR races throughout his career. Dan Gurney won four straight races that he competed in what is now theRead More

By Adam Tate, Managing Editor Lewis Hamilton will take a 5 spot grid penalty for this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix for Mercedes changing the gearbox in his car. It was damaged after contact from William’s Valtteri Bottas in the wild start to the Bahrain Grand Prix. The team released the following statement via Twitter and shed some light on their decision to change the box ahead of China. The gearbox of Lewis Hamilton’s F1 W07 Hybrid sustained damage in Bahrain which required a physical inspection for full assessment. Having done so, theRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief Fresh off his season-best finish of 14th at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday night, Trevor Bayne sees a huge improvement in the Roush Fenway Racing organization only seven races into their 2016 campaign. Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 champion, nearly pulled off an off-sequence pit strategy that would brought home his first win in over five years. Still, the Tennessee native was running solidly in the top 10 prior to surprise strategy call, mixing it up with teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on a couple of occasions forRead More

By Conor Daly, Verizon IndyCar Series Driver Welcome to my blog on Tribute Racing! I look forward to sharing the experience of my first full-time Verizon IndyCar Series season with all of you this year. We’re only two races into the season but it’s been very busy with testing, racing and promotional appearances, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I love what I do and I love every part of it. So far the season has been very much up and down. We struggled in practice and qualifyingRead More