The NASCAR season moved closer to its Sunday kickoff with twin qualifying races for the Daytona 500. Tempers flared as Denny Hamlin wrecked Danica Patrick on the track.
Jimmie Johnson won his sixth Sprint Cup Series championship in eight years at Homestead-Miami Speedway, as Denny Hamlin held off Matt Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the Ford EcoBoost 400 on Sunday.
Johnson needed only to finish 23rd or better to clinch the 2013 NASCAR title, but he managed to place ninth and edge out Kenseth for the championship by 19 points...
It shocked me to find out that one of the men who help design and put together the cars for NASCAR champs Jimmy Johnson and Jeff Gordon doesn't have any arms.
NASCAR's roots are in the American South. Before its expansion over the past two decades, the racing circuit was thought of as a regional sport, one with a great deal in common with country music. In 1985, some of the biggest names in NASCAR recorded and released an album called "Stock Car Racing's Entertainers of the Year...
At least 30 spectators were injured Saturday afternoon when large chunks of debris, including a tire, sailed into the grandstands at Daytona International Speedway when a car flew into the fence on a frightening last-lap accident. Video from the area where debris showered the fans has surfaced.