Tag: NASCAR

Aug. 7 (UPI) — NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France will take an indefinite leave of absence after he was arrested for drunk driving and drug possession in New York.

NASCAR has released a statement confirming that CEO Brian France was arrested and charged with driving while under the influence and possession of illegal drugs.

A father ran onto the track last weekend to pull his son out of the wreckage of a burning race car, at a NASCAR-sanctioned race.

NASCAR driver David Ragan said he was in “awe” of the service men and women of our military, and spoke at length about the “pride” he takes in representing fallen heroes during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM.

Indy and NASCAR racer Danica Patrick announced that she will become the first woman to host the ESPY awards.

NASCAR’s Martin Truex Jr. visited the White House Monday to celebrate the 2017 Cup Series title with the president. Truex said being able to visit the White House is a “huge honor” and that President Donald Trump was “an unbelievable host.”

“One thing I know about NASCAR, they do indeed, stand for the playing of the National Anthem,” Trump said during his speech. “Right? They do indeed.”

Monday while honoring 2017 NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. and his Furniture Row Racing team at the White House, President Donald Trump took another shot at the NFL and recognized NASCAR for always standing for the National Anthem.

USC long-snapper Jake Olson — who is totally blind — made headlines in September for executing a perfect snap on an extra point during a college football game. Now the odds-defying lineman is making headlines again, this time for driving a car on the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Fox Sports has officially apologized and removed a video featuring comedian Sarah Tiana, after she made a border wall joke about Mexican NASCAR driver Daniel Suarez.

Former NASCAR driver Richard Childress is crediting God and his firearm for helping to save the lives of his family after criminals broke into his North Carolina home, last week.

NASCAR legend Richard Childress praised the Second Amendment after opening fire on three home invasion suspects on Sunday.

For the better part of two years, the NFL has struggled to regain its one-time top spot among America’s favorite pastimes, but a survey from the last three months proves that the effort has miserably failed as pro football has become “America’s most hated sport.”

Racing legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. said if he had not followed in the footsteps of his father, he would be a mechanic. The retired NASCAR driver-turned NBC analyst explained on AT&T AUDIENCE Network’s “The Dan Patrick Show” that he worked on

NASCAR racing legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. broke with NASCAR owners, who threatened to fire athletes protesting the National Anthem, to support the protesters.

President Donald Trump applauded NASCAR team owners who said they would fire any of their drivers or employees who chose to protest during the National Anthem.

Several owners of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) teams have claimed they will back Donald Trump’s suggestion that NFL players who protest the national anthem should be fired.

One woman whose job takes her throughout NASCAR fandom is not about to let the presence of the fans’ Confederate flags make her mad.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced that he will retire from NASCAR after the 2017 season in a statement released by Hendrick Motorsports on Tuesday.

Following Sunday’s Monster Energy Cup Kobalt 400 in Las Vegas, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano got into a skirmish. Busch, who was upset because Logano wrecked him on the final lap, confronted Logano on pit road as Logano climbed out of

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Outlaw, Smoke and Gronk turned the Daytona 500 into party central.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Joe Gibbs joined the list of heavy hitters defending NASCAR during one of its shakiest periods in decades.

NASCAR driver Austin Wayne Self has announced that his Camping World Truck Series vehicle will be emblazoned with Donald Trump campaign markings during the upcoming October 22 run of Fred’s 250 at Talladega Superspeedway.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame was one of several buildings in Charlotte, North Carolina, destroyed by riots Wednesday night in protest of the police shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott.

NASCAR racer Robby Gordon’s father and his father’s wife were found dead in their Orange, California, home, their deaths reportedly the result of a murder-suicide, reports say.

One of the stars of Duck Dynasty may have been the catalyst for NASCAR’s first Israeli driver.

For the first time in five years, an NFL franchise is more valuable than the usual soccer juggernauts of Europe. The Dallas Cowboys now lead the world with an overall value of $4 billion despite their championship drought. Forbes’ annual

You can disregard posted speed limits and deliberately make contact with other motorists but whatever you do just don’t call NASCAR officials “muppets.”

NASCAR has decided to openly oppose the North Carolina bathroom law, according to a Motorsport report. The law forbids people from using the public bathrooms of the opposite sex in government buildings.

Don’t fine the messenger.

Canadian authorities arrested a NASCAR driver, who last year became the the first native American to start a Sprint Cup race, and charged him as a chief operative in a tobacco-smuggling and drug-running operation.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump held an afternoon campaign rally in Concord, North Carolina on Monday at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center, touting his recent endorsement from NASCAR and vowing to bring jobs back to the United States.

On Monday, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France, switching gears from last year, when he yanked a NASCAR banquet from a Donald Trump-owned resort, endorsed the Republican’s presidential candidacy.

NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. appeared as a guest on ESPN2’s “First Take” and talked football with the show’s Skip Bayless, Stephen A. Smith and Molly Qerim. Earnhardt was asked about how Carolina Panthers quarterback handled himself after losing in Super Bowl

As the East Coast endures its first massive winter storm of the year, the NBA has canceled two Saturday games as the storm gears up to snarl the New York/Washington corridor in a storm that could dump more than two feet of snow.