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ARCA Preview: 2019 FORTS USA 150

2019 Gateway ARCA Racing Nigel Kinrade Photography

(Photo: Nigel Kinrade Photography)

The ARCA Menards Series travels this weekend to Long Pond, Pa., for its second race of the 2019 season  at Pocono Raceway. The 2019 FORTS USA 150 will take place on Friday, July 26. It will be the first race of the tripleheader race weekend at Pocono; the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series will race …

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NASCAR 101: NASCAR’s Current Owner-Drivers

2019 Daytona I NXS Jeremy Clements car NKP

(Photo: NKP)

Where have all the owner-drivers gone? Well, it certainly ain’t the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Which is probably a different story from when many who read this first started following NASCAR. The story of the owner-driver — the do-it-all wheelman who can balance a checkbook just as well as he can drive a car …

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ARCA Preview: General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway

ARCA Menard's Series Garage Logo

The ARCA Menards Series heads to Talladega Superspeedway to start the kick off of Talladega’s 50th anniversary season. History was made the last time ARCA was on the high banks of the Talladega Superspeedway when Zane Smith and Joe Graf Jr. battled it out to the finish line and became the closest finish ever in …

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Entry List: Fr8 Auctions 250

2017 Talladega II CWTS pack racing Nigel Kinrade NKP

(Photo: Nigel Kinrade/NKP)

After a one-month hiatus from competition, the NASCAR Camping World Truck series heads to Talladega Superspeedway for the running of the Fr8 Auctions 250. This is the final race in the first round of the Truck Series playoffs. 36 teams are on the entry list, meaning that four teams will go home, barring any late …

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NASCAR 101: The 10 Oldest Drivers on the NASCAR Circuit

2015 Xfinity jeff green Elkhart Lake Brett Moist NKP

(Photo: Brett Moist NKP)

There was this very dumb, extremely unfounded story going around the Internet earlier this week claiming that Matt Kenseth was going to be retiring, either immediately or at the end of the season, depending on who you asked. It was debunked almost immediately, with the actual press conference Wednesday (April 19) being some actual good …

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10 Teams Warned After Talladega

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(Photo: Logan Whitton / NKP)

10 teams between the Sprint Cup and XFINITY series were warned for failing pre-race inspection multiple times during the Talladega race weekend, including the No. 48 of Jimmie Johnson. Johnson’s team failed template inspection three times and in addition to his warning he will lose 15 minutes of practice time this weekend at Kansas Speedway. …

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Couch Potato Tuesday: Underwhelming Info Hurts FOX in Talladega

2016 Talladega I CUP Trevor Bayne pack racing Logan Whitton NKP

(Photo: Logan Whitton/NKP)

Talladega is looney tunes.  In its purest form, a race weekend at Talladega makes your stomach churn (or, it makes my stomach turn, at least).  In recent years, that really hasn’t been the case.  However, this past weekend brought it on big time, unlike any time since about 2005. GEICO 500 Sunday brought the Sprint …

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NASCAR 101: 5 NASCAR Drivers Present & Future at ARCA’s Talladega Race

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(Photo: Mike Neff)

In the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, teams visit the two 2-and-a-half-mile superspeedways, Daytona International Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway, twice a year, for four races total. In the XFINITY Series, it’s slightly less, at three races. Even less in the Camping World Truck Series, which races twice. On the other hand, outside of NASCAR, the Ohio-based …

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Landon Cassill Out, Bobby Gerhart in for Xfinity Series Race at Chicagoland

2015 Charlotte I CUP Landon Cassill vertical credit Amy Henderson

Photo Credit: Amy Henderson, Frontstretch

Landon Cassill will compete in a race this weekend, just not in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Cassill, the regular driver of JD Motorsports’ No. 01 Chevrolet, will compete in the Ironman 70.3 at Mont Tremblant on June 21. Team owner Johnny Davis announced Tuesday that the team will shuffle around the driver lineup for his …

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