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Don Prevish Jr. was 13 when his uncle took him to his first stock-car race at what was then known as Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway. His uncle, a Henrico County policeman working a security gig at the track that day, dropped him off in the pits with two instructions. “He told me not to get hit by a car and to have fun,” Prevish recalled. Prevish not only had fun, he…

RICHMOND, Va. – The NASCAR schedule takes drivers all over the country, and each track provides its own unique challenges. But the fan experience changes at each track too. “Racing is a different product based on the track, especially if you’re used to watching on TV,” said lifelong NASCAR fan Jennifer Barnhard, who’s from Columbia, South Carolina. “Different tracks provide another dimension of racing.” This weekend, NASCAR is raced the…

Kyle Larson is enjoying a breakout season at NASCAR’s highest level, 17 years in the making.  Larson began racing go-karts at age 7, and worked his way up from racing open-wheel cars on local tracks to stock cars in NASCAR. You may even see him in the Indy 500 someday. He still races every chance he gets no matter the car or surface, much like Tony Stewart would have done before retiring from…

Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com Two nights before the 2017 Strade Bianche, WorldTour teams huddled around the dinner table, laughing and relaxing before the big battle. Many of them were chattering away in Italian. The scene didn’t seem extraordinary in any way. Yet, it was, for one simple reason: Despite the fact that a number of the teams at the hotels sprinkled across the Tuscan landscape were loaded with…

Matt Kenseth will be the first to tell you that he’s not known for his great qualifying, but Friday at Richmond International Raceway, Kenseth earned his 19th career pole when he put his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in the No. 1 spot for Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Ryan Blaney will start on the outside of Row 1 in his Wood Brothers Racing Ford,…

Caleb Hurd, far right, serves as the gas man on Denny Hamlin’s pit crew on weekends, and as an engineer for Joe Gibbs Racing on weekdays. (Nigel Kinrade/NKP) RICHMOND — Caleb Hurd figured out what he wanted to do with his life when he first traveled to Richmond International Raceway for a NASCAR race in 2000. He was working as a wide-eyed intern for Hendrick Motorsports at the time, putting…

Conway was introduced to NASCAR through 77 Ventures, its agency partner on the 2017 season launch campaign and, more recently, the NASCAR Acceleration Nation work. “Tutelage” is set in a school classroom, where child teachers explain the aerodynamics principles of drag and drafting to a seated audience of students including Dillon, driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet SS. “I really appreciate how NASCAR is including kids like…

Two of MLS’s marquee players battle on Friday as Toronto FC host Houston Dynamo on Friday night. Sebastian Giovinco, the 2015 MLS MVP, will take on Erick “Cubo” Torres, who has been on fire for the Dynamo to start the season. Torres has seven goals already this season, including two game-winners, leading Dynamo to a 4-2-1 record. The 2016 MLS Cup runners-up haven’t enjoyed quite as much success to start the…

Conway was introduced to NASCAR through 77 Ventures, its agency partner on the 2017 season launch campaign and, more recently, the NASCAR Acceleration Nation work. “Tutelage” is set in a school classroom, where child teachers explain the aerodynamics principles of drag and drafting to a seated audience of students including Dillon, driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet SS. “I really appreciate how NASCAR is including kids like…

It’s only 287 days until the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, but nearly 100 of the U.S. team’s top athletes have come together this week, from gold-medalist skier Lindsey Vonn to ice-skating phenom Ashley Wagner to snowboarding legend Shaun White. But they’re not at the site of the 2018 Games, Pyeongchang, South Korea; they’ve assembled at a Los Angeles production facility. And though it’s a sunny spring day, they…

Also losing 15 minutes of practice time for deferred failed race inspection at Texas will be Denny Hamlin, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chris Buescher, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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16. Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. ($7,000) – This is a new Stenhouse. With limited practice time and a beat-up race car, Stenhouse continued his excellence at Bristol. It’s not just Bristol, the Roush Fords are for real this year. (4.5 fppk) 17. Clint Bowyer ($8,500) – He’s a short track guy. Bowyer probably won’t earn fast lap or laps led points, but that’s not a deal breaker. At his price, a top-10 finishing…

16. Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. ($7,000) – This is a new Stenhouse. With limited practice time and a beat-up race car, Stenhouse continued his excellence at Bristol. It’s not just Bristol, the Roush Fords are for real this year. (4.5 fppk) 17. Clint Bowyer ($8,500) – He’s a short track guy. Bowyer probably won’t earn fast lap or laps led points, but that’s not a deal breaker. At his price, a top-10 finishing…

Sports teams mutate over a decade, and so the Capitals and Penguins – teams that take the ice Thursday night – will bear almost no resemblance to the ones that played here in 2009. That was the first time the Caps advanced to the second-round in the Rock the Red era, and it was the start of hockey taking center stage in D.C. sports – or as close to center…

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FILE – In this March 2, 2014, file photo, Tony Stewart waves to the crowd during driver introductions prior to a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race in Avondale, Ariz. First went Jeff Gordon. Then Tony Stewart. Now Dale Earnhardt Jr. is packing his bags to leave NASCAR. All have their own reasons, but the nation’s most popular auto racing series is a victim of its own popularity. (AP Photo/Ross…

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NASCAR issued penalties to two national series teams following the races at Bristol Motor Speedway: The No. 78 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series team of Furniture Row Racing and the No. 22 NASCAR XFINITY Series team of Team Penske.  Martin Truex Jr. drove the No. 78 Toyota to an eighth-place finish at Bristol, but NASCAR officials found one of the car’s 20 lug nuts was improperly installed in a post-race…

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