http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/ en-us Copyright 2009 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:13:46 -0500 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:23:36 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=1.53 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jeff Gordon said he couldn't put his finger on why Texas Motor Speedway had long been a stumbling point for him. It was one of two tracks, Homestead-Miami Speedway being the other, where he had not visited Victory Lane. Until,... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/04/jeff_gordon_on.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/04/jeff_gordon_on.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:13:46 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- Matt Kenseth, winless last year on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit, won in his first race of the 2009 campaign when he was declared the winner of the rain-shortened Daytona 500, with 47 laps remaining in... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/matt_kenseth_wi.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/matt_kenseth_wi.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:35:06 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- Roush Fenway Racing driver Matt Kenseth took the lead from Elliott Sadler just before Aric Almirola's backstretch spinout induced the race's eighth caution on Lap 146. With 50 laps to go, and a storm clouds rolling... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/were_under_caut.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/were_under_caut.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:09:06 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- As storm clouds loomed in the west, Kyle Busch led the 51st Daytona 500 at its halfway point. But 24 laps later, Busch, the runaway early leader who had led 83 laps, was out of the... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/kyle_busch_lead.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/kyle_busch_lead.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:35:40 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Joey Logano, the 18-year-old rookie driver from Middletown, Conn., who became the youngest driver in NASCAR history to start the Daytona 500 had his bid to become the youngest winner in the sport's history thwarted when... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/logano_crashes.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/logano_crashes.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:01:00 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Tony Stewart, winner of Saturday's Nationwide Series opener at Daytona International Speedway, went to the front of the 43-car field for the 51st Daytona 500 on Lap 54 after starting the race at the rear. Stewart,... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/stewart_leads_d.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/stewart_leads_d.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:15:36 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- The 51st Daytona 500 was slowed by a planned competition caution on Lap 25, which enabled the field to pit to check their Goodyear Tires. It was a fortuitous turn of events for Joey Logano, the... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/competition_cau.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/competition_cau.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:53:55 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The 51st Daytona 500 went green just a few minutes ago and pole sitter Martin Truex Jr. led the 43-car field on the first lap. Joey Logano, the 18-year-old rookie driver from Middletown, Conn., was ninth... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/boggity_boogity.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/boggity_boogity.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:44:13 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- We've always wondered about that one. Now we have our answer: It's Tom Cruise...and by a least a couple of inches, it appeared. When Jeff Gordon was summoned for the driver introductions, Cruise was the second... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/whos_taller_jef.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/whos_taller_jef.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:06:45 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- Red Sox owner John Henry, a principal in the Roush Fenway Racing team which will start five cars in the 51st Daytona 500, has just arrived Daytona. His private jet, the one with the Red Sox... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/john_henry_has.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/john_henry_has.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:50:13 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Welcome to Daytona International Speedway, home to the "World Center of Racing," for the 51st presentation of the Daytona 500. Although there were forecasts that predicted at least a 70 percent chance of rain, the sun... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/cole_trickle_is.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/cole_trickle_is.html Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:21:56 -0500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- After going winless last season for the first time in his career, it didn't take Jeff Gordon long to return to Victory Lane, winning the first 150-mile qualifying heat in the Gatorade Duels at Daytona International... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/gordon_wins_gat.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2009/02/gordon_wins_gat.html Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:39:42 -0500 Hollywood was not the only world to mourn the loss of actor Paul Newman, 83, who passed away Saturday from cancer. The world of auto racing also grieved when it learned of Newman's passing. Newman, a champion sports car driver,... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2008/09/racing_world_mo.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2008/09/racing_world_mo.html Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:46:50 -0500 LOUDON, N.H. --- Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 Dish Network Turbo HD Ford fielded by Roush Fenway Racing, yesterday snapped a 33-race winless drought by winning Sunday's Sylvania 300, the first race in the Chase for the Sprint... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2008/09/greg_biffle_win.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2008/09/greg_biffle_win.html Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:26:18 -0500 LOUDON, N.H. -- The Sylvania 300 was red-flagged with 70 laps to go when a five-car melee in Turns 3 and 4 induced the race's fifth caution period. Rookie driver Chad McCumbee sparked the accident when he spun in Turn... http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2008/09/sylvania_300_re.html http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/autoracing/blog/2008/09/sylvania_300_re.html Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:44:59 -0500