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By Adam Tate, Associate Editor Now that we are now one week removed from racing’s biggest weekend of the year, I’d like to take a look back to just how historical, significant and amazing the trio of the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 and Coca Cola 600 were this year by looking at some of the incredible facts and statistics of the day. The Monaco Grand Prix had never before started under the safety car, until this year when rain caused the field to take the first 10 laps behind BerndRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa. – The maiden voyage of the NASCAR XFINITY Series at Pocono Raceway was shorter than planned, but race winner Kyle Larson wasn’t complaining. NASCAR awarded the checkered flag in the Pocono Green 250 to Larson when the race was red-flagged after 53 of 100 scheduled laps and then called because of persistent rain. The victory was Larson’s first of the season and fourth in the series, but it was a source of frustration to runner-up Erik Jones, who arguably had theRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service Before last week’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Martin Truex Jr.’s 2016 season could have been summed up with a lyric from the blues standard “Born Under a Bad Sign.” “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all,” could well have been Truex’s theme for the current campaign. He lost the Daytona 500 to Denny Hamlin by six inches. He led 141 laps at Texas and finished sixth. He won the pole and led 172 of 267 lapsRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer For this week’s edition of Climbing the Ladder, Seth Eggert sat down with Brad Keselowski Racing driver Daniel Hemric. Hemric drives the No. 19 California Clean Power, Cequent Performance, DrawTite, Oakmont Management Group Ford F-150. Hemric is campaigning for the 2016 Camping World Truck Series Championship. Seth Eggert: How did you become interested in motorsports? Daniel Hemric: It started back with the fact that a lot of my family were fans of the sport in general. It could be anything, whether it was dirt bikes,Read More

SHOW #413 – Guest: Brandon Jones – We recap Martin Truex Jr.’s dominating Coca-Cola performance, Jimmie builds drink apparatus, Brad weighs in and shares, Sherry the race car, ABC stole my aircraft carrier thing, fantasy racing, drivers say what and more, oh and Pocono stuff too! Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Toby Christie 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 withRead More

By Toby Christie, NASCAR Editor For the past three seasons, Kevin Harvick has been unquestionably the class of the field just about every time the Sprint Cup Series arrives at a race track. That wasn’t the case however this week at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Harvick started the Coca-Cola 600 from the eighth position, but in the early stages he didn’t look like much of a contender for a win. After the competition caution at lap 25 though, Harvick did battle his way inside the top-five, but his surge was shortRead More

By Toby Christie, NASCAR Editor Defending Series champion, Kyle Busch came into the Coca-Cola 600 with just two tracks on the Sprint Cup Series circuit that he had left to check off of his win list. Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is one of those two tracks, continued to be a thorn in Busch’s side Sunday evening. Busch rolled off from the grid in the 16th position. Before the competition caution came out on lap 25, Busch would work his way to 11th. After a pit stop under this caution, Busch’sRead More

By Toby Christie, NASCAR Editor Roush Fenway Racing’s resurgence has been one of the most surprising stories of the 2016 season, but unfortunately while Trevor Bayne and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. have been succeeding week after week, the team’s veteran leader, Greg Biffle has been left behind recently. Sunday in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte though, Biffle had his best race of the season and the finishing position reflected it. The week started off great for Biffle as he recorded his best starting position of the year, with a sixth placeRead More

SHOW #412 – Guest: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – We recap the thrilling, exciting, and confusing All Star Race from Charlotte, Hendrick gets another #001, so long Dollar General, Carl was live on Facebook (I know right?) plus a full Coca-Cola 600 preview. Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Toby (I got my audio 1/2 right) 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 HERERead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C. – Martin Truex Jr. crashed a Ford party on Thursday night, winning the pole for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (6 p.m. ET on FOX). With his team making adjustments to the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota throughout the qualifying session, Truex saved his best lap for the round that counted, covering the 1.5-mile distance in 28.077 seconds (192.328 mph) to edge Team Penske Ford driver Joey Logano (192.007 mph) by .047 seconds for the top starting spot inRead More