by RacingNews | Jan 25, 2015 | Big 8 Late Model Series, Touring Series News
The Rockford Speedway and the Big 8 Late Model Series presented by Gandrud Chevrolet is seemingly a match made in heaven.
First there’s Rockford Speedway, celebrating its sixty-eighth season of continuous operations in 2015. The high-banked quarter mile has long been known as an action-packed bullring throughout its history. Then, there’s Big 8 Late Model Series, which during its ten-plus year existence has featured some of the best Late Model drivers in the Midwest while providing some of the most thrilling short-track races year after year.
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by RacingNews | Jan 22, 2015 | NASCAR, Sprint Cup
CORNELIUS, N.C. – Doctors have medically cleared Brian Vickers to return to full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup racing in early March, three months after corrective heart surgery.
Vickers will make his season debut in the No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 8.
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by RacingNews | Jan 22, 2015 | NASCAR
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AYTONA BEACH, Fla. (January 21, 2015) – NASCAR, NASCAR Team Properties (NTP) and Fanatics jointly announced today a 10-year agreement for the sport’s at-track merchandise business that will deliver fans an enhanced, experiential shopping environment. As part of the agreement, Fanatics has acquired certain exclusive rights from NASCAR and NTP that will make the company the primary retailer of NASCAR, team and driver merchandise at all 38 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race weekends.
Fanatics, the market leader for officially licensed sports merchandise, powers the e-stores for hundreds of the top sports leagues, teams and schools, including a long history running NASCAR’s e-commerce business (NASCAR.com). The NASCAR at-track deal expands Fanatics’ growing in-venue partnerships.
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by RacingNews | Jan 22, 2015 | NASCAR, Sprint Cup
LAS VEGAS (January 21, 2015) – Award-winning country group Rascal Flatts will sing the national anthem at the Kobalt 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday, March 8 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The performance will take place in the midst of the band’s first-ever, nine-show residency, Rascal Flatts Vegas Riot!, at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino from Wednesday, Feb. 25 to Saturday, March 14.
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by RacingNews | Jan 20, 2015 | PASS
CHARLOTTE, NC (January 19) – Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Pro Late Model racer Matt Murphy draws inspiration, as do many others like him, through the words and example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But for many, the 14-year-old aspiring race car driver from Charlotte, NC is himself an inspiration.
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by RacingNews | Jan 20, 2015 | Pro Stock Tour
(Halifax, NS – January 19, 2015) The Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour is pleased to announce their 2015 racing schedule. The region’s premier stock car racing series will make stops in five major markets in all three Maritime Provinces during the 15th Anniversary Season.
The season kicks off at Scotia Speedworld, with a 100-lap event on Saturday, May 23rd. The series will make three additional stops at Scotia Speedworld, including a 150-lap feature on Saturday, June 20th, the prestigious 16th Annual Atlantic Cat 250 on Saturday, August 8th and the series 200-lap season finale on Saturday, September 19th.
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