Post Tagged with: "NASCAR"

Ambrose’s crazy victory is big for many reasons

August 12, 2022 at 9:48 pm #SprintCup, nascar, news, world news

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Any way anyone wants to dissect it, Marcos Ambrose‘s win in Sunday’s Finger Lakes 355 at Watkins Glen was pretty slick. With an apparent fine mist of oil that NASCAR officials and drivers alike couldn’t see sprinkled down on the 2.45-mile track, the final lap turned into a fantastic spectacle of survival. Ambrose, the defending race [...]

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Bowyer looks for road-course sweep

August 11, 2022 at 7:45 pm #SprintCup, Featured, NASCAR, nascar

  Notebook: Bowyer looks for road-course sweep Johnson searches for rhythm; Kenseth for right time to break team news WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Watkins Glen is vastly different from Sonoma, where Clint Bowyer triumphed in June, but Bowyer has shown enough speed in his Sprint Cup car this weekend that a sweep of circuit’s road courses wouldn’t be out of [...]

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Notebook: Bowyer looks for road-course sweep

August 11, 2022 at 7:28 pm nascar

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Watkins Glen is vastly different from Sonoma, where Clint Bowyer triumphed in June, but Bowyer has shown enough speed in his Sprint Cup car this weekend that a sweep of circuit’s road courses wouldn’t be out of the question. “It’s a different beast here — quite a bit different, I think,” Bowyer said. “When I go [...]

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Fans speak out about Dodge departure

August 11, 2022 at 7:26 pm Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, nascar

Proponents at and around the track lament sport’s future without maker WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Dodge’s impending departure from NASCAR racing is a punch to the gut for Mike Learn. Learn, 61, owns Learn Motor Company, the Dodge dealership in downtown Watkins Glen. Dodge & Penske   It’s no slick megastore. It’s a throwback — a family operation that his [...]

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Ambrose, RPM on right course after ’11 WGI win

August 11, 2022 at 7:22 pm nascar

  WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — The whispers were there in the wind. And whenever the Sprint Cup Series arrived at one of its rare road courses, the wind seemed to blow a little harder and the whispers got louder. “ The car is really powerful and it wants to buck and kick and throw you off every corner and you’ve [...]

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Truex looking to maintain momentum at WGI

August 11, 2022 at 7:20 pm nascar

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — The first name to pop into the minds of folks thinking about accomplished road-course racers would not be Martin Truex Jr. But Truex may be getting closer to changing that, much the same way he’s helping change the perception of his No. 56 Toyota team overall this season. Even though he has yet to win a [...]

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