November 5, 2011 NASCAR came down on hard on Kyle Busch following Friday night's Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. They suspended him from driving in this weekend's Nationwide and Sprint Cup races after he intentionally wrecked Truck Series contender Ron Hornaday early in the race.
September 16, 2011 For the first time since the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship format began it’ll start at a track other than New Hampshire. The 10-week Chase begins this Sunday with a 400-mile race at the 1.5 mile Chicagoland Speedway.
September 2, 2011 Sprint Cup, Nationwide and the truck series are all running at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend. Trucks race tonight, Nationwide tomorrow night and Sprint Cup goes on Sunday.
Who wants to be a millionaire at Atlanta? Four drivers -- Brad Keselowski, Paul Menard, Kyle Busch and Marcos Ambrose each have a shot at winning $1 million in the "Sprint Summer Showdown" bonus program
August 26, 2011 All three of NASCAR’s top series are in "Thunder Valley" this week under the lights at the half-mile, high-banked Bristol Motor Speedway. Kevin Harvick won his third straight Truck Series race Wednesday night at Bristol
August 22, 2011 For the fourth time this season Kyle Busch took the checkered flag, but it was for the first time ever at Michigan. Kyle held off Jimmie Johnson on a two-lap sprint after brother Kurt Busch scraped the wall bringing out the final caution of the day
August 16, 2011 Finally a checkered flag for Marcus Ambrose. He won yesterday’s rain delayed road course race at Watkins Glen beating Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski in a two lap sprint. Busch led at the green flag for the final two laps, but Keselowski, then Ambrose got by him. Ambrose then chased down Keselowski, caught him and passed him entering the final lap and rolled to his first Sprint Cup victory.
August 8, 2011 It was quite a week for Brad Keselowski. There were some doubts whether he'd be able to drive at all on Sunday in the Sprint Cup race at Pocono after crashing into a wall earlier in the week at Atlanta. And even with a broken left ankle Keselowski was determined to drive the number 2 Miller Lite Dodge. And boy did he ever. He pulled away from Kurt Busch on a late restart and held on for his second victory of the season. And now in the top 20 in points his second win of the year gives him the number one wild card spot.
July 18, 2011 Great day on the track for Stewart-Haas Racing. Pole sitter Ryan Newman won his first race of the year and third at New Hampshire while team co-owner Tony Stewart finished right behind him in second place. That's exactly how they started the race. Newman led 119 laps including the last 72 to end a 47-race winless streak for his 15th career win and third at New Hampshire.
July 15, 2011 New Hampshire Speedway in Loudon, NH (Getty Images)It’s a busy weekend in racing with Sprint Cup, Nationwide and the Truck Series all in action. Sprint and Nationwide are at New Hampshire while the trucks are running in Iowa.
Kyle Busch won two out of three races last week at Kentucky, winning the Truck series event on
Thursday then the Sprint Cup race on Saturday. He enters this weekend with 99 NASCAR wins and with just one more victory he'll become only the third NASCAR driver with 100 or more wins to his credit. Richard Petty holds the all-time record with 200, followed by David Pearson with 106.
July 11, 2011 A great night at the track for Kyle Busch in the first sprint cup event at Kentucky Speedway. Busch led a race high 125 laps and claimed his third victory of the season when he passed Jimmie Johnson on a late restart and held on to the lead to put himself back into the points lead at the halfway point of the season.
David Reutimann also managed to get by Johnson for a career best second place finish while Johnson came in third.
Ryan Newman and Carl Edwards completed the top five.
July 8, 2011 Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck Series drivers are all at Kentucky Speedway this weekend and for Cup drivers it’ll be their first visit to the state of Kentucky in 57 years.
Kentucky becomes the first track added to the Cup schedule since Chicagoland Speedway and Kansas Speedway in 2001. The mile and a half track about 40 miles south of Cincinnati got a date on the schedule when Atlanta lost one of its two annual dates. Atlanta’s only Cup event this year will be Labor Day weekend.
May 25, 2011 NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has gotten himself in trouble not only on the race track this season but off it of too. Busch was ticketed for speeding and reckless driving on Tuesday when he was clocked going 128 mph in a 45 mph zone in Statesville, NC, 30 miles north of Charlotte.
