Just when he thought he was out, they pull him back in… Though he ended his 23-year NASCAR driving career last season, Jeff Gordon has confirmed the speculation that he will be coming out of retirement to race Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s No. 88 Chevrolet at both this Sunday’s Brickyard 400 and next week’s race at…
You couldn’t have come up with a better weekend for Kyle Busch. A year after winning both Indy races, he came back to join Jimmie Johnson as the only back-to-back winner of the Brickyard, all the while leading a record 149 of 170 laps. Now that’s dominance. Busch was quick to give credit to the…
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The 2016 Camaro shows its stuff at this year’s Brickyard 400 After its Detroit debut, the all-new sixth-generation 2016 Chevy Camaro embarked on a cross-country tour. Its first stop was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Indy 500, and then it made its way to Cincinnati for the 2015 MLB All-Star Game. Then this…
Yesterday’s race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway proved to be another letdown for the paltry few NASCAR fans in attendance. There was reason for excitement going into the event, which promised to be Tony Stewart’s final Brickyard 400 and Jeff Gordon’s (uh, second consecutive) final Brickyard 400. In the end, though, neither of the two…
Jeff Gordon poses with 2017 Camaro ZL1 Daytona 500 Pace Car Jeff Gordon is coming back to the Brickyard, though not to compete. The retired NASCAR driving legend will be pacing the Brickyard 400 on July 23, 2017, leading the field in a 2017 Chevy Camaro ZL1. Gordon’s Camaro ZL1 pace car will be unmodified,…
Chris Pratt Will Drive the Chevy SS Pace Car at Brickyard ©GM Chevy has made our dreams come true. Parks and Rec star Chris Pratt will drive the Chevy SS Pace Car at Brickyard this weekend. Now all we need is Nick Offerman waving the flag and commentary by Amy Poehler, and life would be…
Buy LEGO RACE 3000 on Amazon Since their inception, LEGO bricks have shared a connection with automobiles. Some of the earliest LEGO sets were race cars, and the LEGO IDEAS site is filled with proposals for classic car sets. So, as the LEGO Games line has launched over a dozen different brick-based board games, it’s no…
Despite getting banged up in a frightening plane crash last week, retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. still plans to get behind the wheel next week for a special race appearance at South Carolina’s Darlington Raceway. Earnhardt, his wife, Amy, and daughter, Isla, were aboard a Cessna jet last week when its landing gear apparently…
Indianapolis Motor Speedway: 1967 Entrance Photo: Mark Zimmerman via Flickr/CC Is there any track in all of North America that carries the same level of prestige and fame as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway? It’s hard to name any that could even compete. Every speedway in the world owes something to it. When it was built…
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Honda’s Alexander Rossi celebrates his Indy 500 win in Victory Circle. In the lead-up to this weekend’s 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, Honda released an infographic bragging about its many achievements at the Brickyard over the years. The stats included a 10 Indy 500 wins, more than any other manufacturer. Today Honda improved its…
At 46, Castroneves would later say that 2021 “might be the year for aging veterans,” comparing his achievement at the Brickyard to Takuma Sato should probably thank Fernando Alonso. So far, every time the Spaniard starts in the Indianapolis 500, Sato ends up winning the race. But while Alonso’s first outing at the Brickyard was…
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