INDIANAPOLIS – Chevrolet’s all-new Midget racing engine was unveiled today at Indianapolis Motor Speedway by GM representatives and United States Auto Club (USAC) team owner Tony Stewart. Designed by GM Racing specifically for the USAC National Midget Car Series, the new purpose-built, four-cylinder Chevrolet racing engine will initially power Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) drivers Tracy [...]
Posts on ‘May 7th, 2008’
No Wins at Darlington? No Problem.
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – There are very few race tracks that the NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visits where Tony Stewart doesn’t have a win. In fact, there’s only two of them – Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
Coming into the 2008 season, that number was double, as Stewart also hadn’t [...]
Extreme Makeover – Darlington Style
ATLANTA – Back in 2005, one of Darlington (S.C.) Raceway’s two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series dates was moved westward to the two-mile oval in Fontana, Calif. For die-hard NASCAR fans, it was hard to believe that an event in racing’s heartland – on NASCAR’s first and oldest superspeedway no less – could be jettisoned to [...]
DIRTcar Debut Highlights Busy Stretch of Racing for Josh
SHINNSTON, WV – Josh Richards proved his adaptive abilities last Thursday night (May 1) when he made a head-turning DIRTcar big-block Modified debut at Virginia Motor Speedway.
The 20-year-old dirt Late Model star known as ‘Kid Rocket’ finished only 19th in the 60-lap Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series ‘Paul Sawyer Memorial’ event, but his qualifying [...]