JD - Looking for utube of SX from this wknd. Don't c re-air on Speed and mist Sun morning...trying not to c who won 4 sure either! jdull99@hotmail.com

 

From Jayski:  Tony Stewart will attempt to win his seventh NASCAR Nationwide Series race on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 25. This year Stewart will drive the #33 Oreo 100th Anniversary Chevy fielded by Richard Childress Racing. Stewart has won the last four NASCAR Nationwide season openers at Daytona and hopes to add a fifth-straight victory next month.

Danica Patrick has added the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway to her 2012 Sprint Cup schedule, eliminating any possibility she will run in the Indianapolis 500. "I'm not going to do the Indy 500,'' the former IndyCar Series driver said on Monday to kick off the 2012 Sprint Media Tour. "I hope to do it in the future. Maybe it'll be a double. But at this point in time, after a lot of conversations, it's just going to be the Coke 600. It's going to be a big challenge.'' Patrick, who is running a full Nationwide Series schedule at JR Motorsports and part-time Cup schedule for Stewart Haas Racing as she makes the transition from open wheel racing to stock cars, said it was a business decision to run NASCAR's longest race that is held on the same day as the 500 in May. (JD - There's a better chance Danica will win at Daytona than ever race in the Indy 500 again...)

Larry Gunselman's MaxQ Motorsports, which ran the #37 last season, indicated late in 2011 that the team would run full-time with Josh Wise vying for the 2012 Rookie of the Year. In an email, Gunselman tells News/Talk WSB that the team still plans to run, but is now considering three or four drivers, including Wise. Wise start-and-parked the No. 37 three times and the #66 one time last season.

NASCAR will return to Daytona International Speedway in February with the same restrictor plate that it left with when testing ended earlier this month. Teams were informed Friday of the rules configuration for Daytona, which includes a restrictor plate with holes 29/32nds of an inch in diameter. In hopes of limiting the use of the two-car draft used by the Sprint Cup cars during the Daytona 500, NASCAR officials have made changes that they hope would result in overheating if the two-car draft is used for an extended period of time during the race. The biggest change is the rear bumper has been moved two inches closer to the ground. Teams will have a front grille opening of 50 square inches - it was 40 square inches by the time testing ended last week at the 2.5-mile trioval. The radiator pressure release valve will be set at 25 psi, the same as it was when teams left Daytona on the final afternoon of testing.

Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart was named the National Motorsports Press Association's 2011 Richard Petty Driver of the Year Sunday. Stewart, who had a mediocre regular season, nevertheless made the Chase for the Sprint Cup field - and then performed with near-brilliance, winning five of the final 10 races of the season and edging Carl Edwards for the series championship. The title was the third for Stewart but his first racing for his own team, Stewart-Haas Racing.

 

 

TUCSON, Ariz. — Billy Moyer triumphed for the second time in four races in this year’s Wild West Shootout for dirt late models at USA Raceway.

Moyer outran fellow front-row starter Tim McCreadie and led all 30 laps of the three-eighths-mile dirt track to win for the ninth time in the Wild West Series and the 754th time in his career.

McCreadie challenged Moyer throughout the event, getting even as the pair split a lapped car on lap 17, but Moyer held the lead and went on to victory.

“This place is really fun to race on when it gets like this,” McCreadie said after the race. “He’s (Moyer) been in his car for four years, and we’ve been in ours for four days. We’re just a tick off but were gaining on it every night and building something special with these Warrior cars.”

While Moyer banked $3,000 for the victory...

The finish:

Billy Moyer, Tim McCreadie, Will Vaught, Brad Looney, Jimmy Mars, Shanon Babb, Randy Korte, Jesse Stovall, Dane Dacus, John Anderson, Bub McCool...

 

by NSSN Staff

TUCSON, Ariz. — Texas driver Morgan Bagley posted the biggest victory of his career Sunday evening at USA Raceway.

Bagley earned earned $10,000 for winning the finale of the sixth annual Wild West Shootout at the three-eighths-mile dirt track.

The finish:

Morgan Bagley, Tim McCreadie, John Anderson, Billy Moyer, Jr., Jimmy Mars, Ronny Lee Hollingsworth, Chris Simpson, Frank Heckenast, Jr., Duke Whiseant, Don O’Neal, Terry Phillips, Leon Henderson, Jeff Provinzino, Steve Isenburg, Chris Shannon, Garret, Alberson, Ray Moore, Jason Papich, Nick Bartels, Todd Frank, Billy Moyer, Lonnie Parker, Jr., Brad Looney, Will Vaught, Clay Daly.

 

 

From Perris, CA:  Perris Auto Speedway promoter Don Kazarian has announced that due to the current economy, there will be some price changes when the Riverside County Clay oval opens it's 17th season in February.

In recent weeks the diminished economy has cost Southern California two racing facilities. Orange Show Speedway in San Bernardino, the oldest track in the state which had operated continuously since the 1940s, and Victorville Raceway Park. Kazarian is bound and determined not to late the same fate befall The PAS and regrettably some increases have to be instituted.

"The ticket and pit pass increases this year is primarily driven by historical low sponsorship along with USAC's inability to subsidize the purses paid out for USAC/CRA events at the speedway," the longtime promoter lamented. "I want to thank USAC for all their support in the 2009 and 2010 racing seasons. I understand they too have their own economic concerns and I appreciate everything they have done to keep their presence in Sprint Car racing on the west coast. The entire motorsports industry is driven by sponsorship participation. The plain facts are, it has dramatically impacted the short tracks. If we mirror the same business models as the other tracks, it will only be a matter of time we find ourselves in the same economic situation that they have experienced. I know it is a lot for not only the race fans to accept but the race teams as well. Hopefully everyone will accept this and the speedway will continue to provide exciting racing for years to come. It is a shame that numerous tracks have been forced to close, especially in Southern California."

The increases instituted are as follows:

· Adult tickets to USAC/CRA races $25.00

· USAC/CRA member pit pass $40.00

· USAC/CRA non-member pit pass $50.00