New Hampshire Motor Speedway Tag

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer  Clint Bowyer was just a few restarts away from spoiling the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. Despite not being in the Playoffs, Bowyer ran well enough to battle for the lead and finish inside the top-10 in the ISM Connect 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Bowyer jumped up to second in the No. 14 Haas Automation Ford Fusion on a restart with just under 30 laps to go. Before he could make a move on race leader, and eventual winner, Kyle Busch, theRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer  A few weeks off for a hiatus and a new alliance with GMS Racing was just what Stewart Friesen needed. Friesen finished fifth after running inside the top-10 throughout the entire NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Friesen ran as high as third in the No. 52 We Build America Chevrolet Silverado in the running order in the late stages of the race. He battled with the likes of Grant Enfinger, Ryan Truex, as well as Playoff competitors JohnnyRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Winning the Regular Season has made Christopher Bell a favorite for the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship. Now Bell holds a 15-point advantage, and is poised for a strong Playoff run in the No. 4 SiriusXM Toyota Tundra. Bell has just one start at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS). He started third and finished second to his then-Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) teammate William Byron. Bell believes that with KBM’s history at ‘The Magic Mile, that he has a good shot at victoryRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor The first round of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs rolls on as the series heads back to New Hampshire Motor Speedway for their second visit of the season and Sunday’s running of the ISM Connect 300, which will also be the final time the Cup Series makes a visit to the track in the fall as they move to just one race weekend in 2018. First joining the Cup Series circuit in 1993, the 1.058-mile oval that has progressively banked turns from twoRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor The pressure that comes with competing for the championship in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs is immense for the drivers that make the cut into the postseason to be one of the few to have a shot at the title and sometimes that pressure can be too much to bear. In the 2005 Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, tempers flaring among the drivers, those in the playoffs and on the outside looking in, nearly overshadowed a stellar finish between Ryan NewmanRead More

June 5, 1958 – September 16, 2017 2001 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Champion 2008 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Champion 48 NASCAR Modified Wins 10 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Wins Four-Time Thompson Speedway Track Champion Nine-Time Stafford Motor Speedway Track Champion How do you describe a competitor who made a career playing to the fans? Aggressive, controversial, dominant, fan favorite, hated, loved, successful, or victorious? Ted Christopher was all of that and much, much more. Christopher was one of the winningest drivers in the history of SK Modified competition. HeRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer  How can seven-time and defending Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion Jimmie Johnson fly under radar in the Playoffs? By being outside the top-10 throughout the entire weekend until the final stage of the Tales of the Turtles 400. Johnson had a quiet weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. He finished eighth, but was 11th at the end of both stages. Unlike some of his fellow Playoff competitors, Johnson had flawless pit stops for his No. 48 Lowe’s / Hitachi Chevrolet SS. Throughout the entire race passingRead More

It’s that time of the year again. After the 16 driver field for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs was set last weekend at Richmond, the intensity of the season is about to ramp up over the final 10 weeks of the season as we’ll whittle the championship field down to four at Homestead to see which driver will walk away with the title at season’s end. As a refresher, there will be three rounds of eliminations before the Championship Four is set. The Round of 16 will includeRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Sunday’s Overton’s 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway was full of storylines as the regular season draws one race nearer to its conclusion, but what were the top storylines of the day? NASCAR Editor David Morgan is here to break it all down. Joe Gibbs Racing Finally Gets Their First Win of the Season If anyone would have said prior to the season that Joe Gibbs Racing wouldn’t have their first win of the year until mid-July, you would have called them crazy. Well, 19Read More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer  After failing to finish the last two Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races, Kurt Busch bounces back with a Top 10 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Busch finished eighth in the No. 41 Haas Automation / Monster Energy Ford Fusion after running up front for much of the race. Busch excelled on the sticky PJ1 compound that NASCAR officials sprayed on the lower and upper lines in the corner throughout the weekend. Aside from pit strategy near the end of Stage 1, Busch spent theRead More