NASCAR Truck Series Kentucky Preview

  by Dave Grayson
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will again be given a well deserved opportunity to take center stage during a standalone event at the beautiful but challenging Kentucky Speedway. Friday night's Built Ford Tough 225 is going to feature 36 race trucks running door to door on a 1.5 mile, multiple groove, oval that easily allows two, even three, wide racing. Fans can expect to see action very similar to last week's race at the Chicagoland Speedway and Chicago was a very good race.

NASCAR Montreal and Chicago postscript

  by Dave Grayson
With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series taking the weekend off, the Nationwide Series was provided a much deserved opportunity to take center stage over the previous weekend. What a stage it was. The Series ventured north of the border to stage an exciting event in Montreal-Canada on the famed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. 77 circuits later around the 2.7 mile, 14 turn, road course a very popular winner stood in victory lane.

Said edges Papis in Photo finish in Montreal

  NASCAR Nationwide Series
At long last, road-course ace Boris Said is a winner in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.  Said won Sunday’s NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve when—with the two strongest cars out of contention—the always unpredictable event ended with Said beating Max Papis in a drag race to the finish line.

Chicagoland: Busch wins another Truck race

  Like taking candy from a baby
Kyle Busch withstood two late challenges for the lead from Todd Bodine and hung on to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in overtime Friday night. It was Busch's second straight truck win at Chicagoland, his fourth series victory of the season and 20th of his career. And it comes in the wake of his remarkable three-race weekend sweep at Bristol.

NASCAR Bristol postscript

  by Dave Grayson
During the Bristol Motor Speedway's Festival Of Speed we witnessed a young driver create NASCAR history that had him literally sweeping victory lane. We were entertained by another episode from "Bad Brad" who once again found himself the unwanted center of attention. We also witnessed another free fall by a four time NASCAR champion that has us all wondering what's going on.

Kyle Busch sets NASCAR record in Bristol

  by Pete McCole
Kyle Busch etched his name into the NASCAR record books on Saturday night with an historic three-race sweep, becoming the first driver ever to win in all three of the sport’s top series in a single weekend, capping off the trifecta with a dominating victory in the IRWIN Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch took the lead from David Reutimann with 72 laps to and was never challenged through the remaining laps.

Busch wins again at Bristol - 2 down 1 to go

  by Pete McCole
In his quest for a history-making three-race sweep, Kyle Busch proved that nothing is going to stand in his way – not a last-place start, not fuel mileage, not even Brad Keselowski. Busch moved one step closer to becoming the first driver to win a race in all three of NASCAR’s top series is a single weekend with a victory in Friday night’s wild finish to the Food City 250 Nationwide Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway.  Fresh off of his worst-to-first performance in Wednesday night’s Camping World Truck Series event, Busch took out Keselowski with 32 laps to go to claim his record-tying 10th win the season.

Johnson wins Sprint Cup pole in Bristol

  NASCAR
A slumping Jimmie Johnson got just what the doctor ordered by winning the pole for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Irwin Tools 500 race in Bristol, Tennessee.  Johnson turned a lap of 123.475 mph to earn his 24th career Sprint Cup pole and the first on 2010.  Carl Edwards recorded the second-best lap of the session with a speed of 122.937 mph. Joey Logano, Tony Stewart and David Reutimann rounded out the top five.

Scenes from Bristol Truck and Modified races

  by Rhonda McCole
The NASCAR Truck series race won by Kyle Busch and a Modified Stock Car Race ran this week on the 1/2-half mile Bristol Bullring and our Rhonda McCole was there to capture all the happenings in these photos.

NASCAR Preview: Bristol showdown

  by Dave Grayson
Mark my words, it has all of the makings of a Saturday night showdown when 43 teams from NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series takes the green flag for the Irwin Tools 500. Anytime you place that many cars on a half mile track there is bound to be some sort of driver road rage that frequently becomes motorized mayhem. It's not a question of will it happen. It more a question of when will it happen and how many times will we see it. The Irwin Tools 500 is going to be more than worth staying home on a Saturday night to watch.

Kyle Busch makes quick work of Bristol truck field

  by Pete McCole
Kyle Busch didn’t make it easy on himself in his quest to win his third straight NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday night, but he still found a way to win, taking the checkered flag in the O’Reilly 200.  Busch went from worst to first after starting at the tail end of the field and then rolled the dice on a short pit stop, stretching his fuel to lead the final 116 laps - including three laps of overtime - to post his third 19th career truck series victory.

NASCAR Michigan weekend postscript

  by Dave Grayson
Over the previous weekend we watched a driver announce it was vacation time after clinching his berth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase For The Championship following the Michigan race. We also watched a Nationwide Series driver defend his home turf. Meanwhile, in South Carolina, "The Onion" tamed the lady in black and, oh yeah, Danica paid us a visit and, more importantly, so did "The Cat In The Hat".