03/12/13 This Just In... The Raw NASCAR News Feed

• AARDA Applauds Fox Sports Supports for Selecting Johns Hopkins Medicine as a 2013 Partner Charity _{2013-03-12, 08:00 am}
  ... and Regis Philbin. In this way, JHM and the other two charities will benefit from exposure to millions of viewers of NASCAR, MLB, UFC,NFL, college football, as well as the NHL, NBA and college basketball on the FOX Sports regional networks. FOX ...
• Something fun to talk about in IndyCar _{2013-03-12, 08:50 am}
  A tweet last night criticized IndyCar for not making its leadership available during yesterday's preseason media day.
• Tickle Cards Daytona Supercross Top-10 _{2013-03-12, 08:35 am}
  RCH Racing Suzuki's Broc Tickle raced to his third top-10 Main Event finish in Saturday's Daytona Supercross in Florida.
• Strong 30-Car Field Set To Open The USF2000 2013 Season At Sebring _{2013-03-12, 08:35 am}
  The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda will return to Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Fla., this week to open its seven-event, 14-race, 2013 season.
• Serita Shone wins bronze on remarkable return to bobsleigh action _{2013-03-12, 08:14 am}
  The 23-year-old fractured her spine in October 2011 during a training run crash in Winterberg, Germany and it was feared she would never walk again.
• IndyCar's drivers eager to get back to work _{2013-03-12, 07:53 am}
  It's been six months since the last IndyCar race, when the focus was still on the drivers and the on-track product.
• FSCJ board to discuss loan repayment _{2013-03-12, 07:42 am}
  Florida State College of Jacksonville's board of trustees is being asked to given students more time to repay loans given to them by mistake.
• Michael Waltrip Racing, Jet Edge Renew Partnership _{2013-03-12, 07:27 am}
  ... at Martinsville Speedway. MWR uses its precision waterjet cutting system to cut more than 1,000 parts for each of its NASCAR Sprint Cup cars. It builds about 56 cars per year, including the #55 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota Camry driven by Michael ...
• Nascar Crash Injures Dozens of Spectators _{2013-03-12, 06:40 am}
  ... played a part, and if so, what rights and remedies are available to them." Tickets to sporting events such as Nascar races often have liability waivers printed on the reverse. But experts say that courts in some cases have been willing to look past ...
• Kimi not concerned by reliability _{2013-03-12, 06:38 am}
  Kimi Raikkonen insists he is not concerned by Lotus' pre-season woes with the first race of 2013 just around the corner.
• Westboro Baptist Church: Protest planned at NASCAR due to pro-gay comment _{2013-03-12, 06:31 am}
  ... hate group who has become known nationally for their "God hates fags" motto plans to have a protest at an upcoming NASCAR race because a famous driver said that he would not mind having a gay member on his team. The NASCAR driver is Brad Kaseowski ...
• McLaren chose money over talent for 2013 _{2013-03-12, 06:19 am}
  John Watson has accused his former team McLaren of effectively hiring a pay-driver to replace Lewis Hamilton in 2013.
• NASCAR overpolicing in case of Hamlin? _{2013-03-12, 05:37 am}
  What a great NASCAR race that was at Las Vegas! The new Gen-6 car sure put on an amazing show, one for the ages, for sure.
• NASCAR 2013 Power Rankings: Three Down, 33 to Go...Bring on Bristol, Baby _{2013-03-12, 04:56 am}
  As we put together the second edition of Power Rankings for the 2013 Sprint Cup season, there has obviously been a lot of movement in and out of the top 20 from our preseason Power Rankings heading into the season-opening Daytona 500.
• Cheltenham Festival: day one - live! | Sean Ingle _{2013-03-12, 04:43 am}
  We are frozen in places but it seems to be small areas. We can't really tell the extent of the frozen areas until we start to take the covers up.
• NASCAR: Brad Keselowski quietly having best start of his career _{2013-03-12, 03:00 am}
  ... Keselowski would handle switching manufacturers from Dodge to Ford, working with new teammate Joey Logano and racing NASCAR's new Gen 6 cars, but conventional wisdom was that at least one of those factors could upset the No. 2 team's momentum. So ...
• Fitness calendar: Week of March 12 _{2013-03-12, 03:00 am}
  The 3-mile run starts at the store and loops around Murdock and Columbian parks and back to the store for raffles and refreshments.
• Ray Sotero: Allmendinger ready to get back on track _{2013-03-12, 03:00 am}
  ... and a good bet. Already a champ in several stepping-stone classes of open-wheel racing and a six-year veteran of NASCAR, Allmendinger's new lease on racing life begins today and Wednesday during IndyCar's spring training in Birmingham, Ala. After ...
• Hamlin offers opinion on Gen-6 car, NASCAR offers up $25K fine _{2013-03-12, 04:47 am}
  What a great NASCAR race that was at Las Vegas! The new Gen-6 car sure put on an amazing show, one for the ages, for sure.
• McLaren chose money over talent for 2013 - Watson _{2013-03-12, 04:18 am}
  Mar.12 John Watson has accused his former team McLaren of effectively hiring a pay-driver to replace Lewis Hamilton in 2013.

Nascar Notes: Keselowski keeps things in perspective

Nascar Notes: Keselowski keeps things in perspective

WDAM-TV Hattiesburg

Competing for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship, which is the highest prize in Motorsports, can be a very trying experience.

Nascar's Leaky Fuel Tank

Nascar's Leaky Fuel Tank

Wall Street Journal

... little track that was so popular a few years ago the owners moved a nearby railroad to make room for more seats. Nascar, the nation's richest and most popular form of motorports, has experienced a fall-off so steep in recent years that the roaring ...

NASCAR FanVision Controller hands-on

NASCAR FanVision Controller hands-on

SlashGear.com

NASCAR is one of the biggest and most popular spectator sports in the nation. They sell more seats and tickets than any single sporting event, have millions of fans, go extremely fast, and the sport uses some awesome technology that often gets missed in this world of smartphones and tablets.

Motorsports: Antron Brown becomes first African American to win major US auto racing series [w/video]

Motorsports: Antron Brown becomes first African American to win major US auto racing series [w/video]

Autoblog

... watch video coverage from Brown's historic win. Boy, the way people like 'sea urchin' act, if a Black driver wins in NASCAR, they'll probably explode. CONGRATS ANTRON!!! Those of us who've been around since Wendell Scott and Willy Ribbs are proud of ...

9-year-old hopes to follow his dad to NASCAR circuit

9-year-old hopes to follow his dad to NASCAR circuit

Franklin

... He plans to run Karts until he is 12, then move up to open-wheel cars until he works his way to his ultimate goal - NASCAR and Indy. In fact, Sam already has interviewed with racing icons Roger Penske and Chip Ganassi and hopes to be picked up as a ...

NASCAR Phoenix: Brad Keselowski fined for tweeting during Sunday's race

NASCAR Phoenix: Brad Keselowski fined for tweeting during Sunday's race

Sporting News

... was fined $25,000 on Monday for having a cell phone in his car during Sunday's race at Phoenix International Raceway. NASCAR Phoenix: Brad Keselowski learned the hard way-a $25,000 fine-that his racecar is a no-tweet zone. (AP Photo) According to ...