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Texas Motor Speedway's Eddie Gossage Is the Last of His Kind

There are sports promoters ... and there are race promoters. And then there is Eddie Gossage. TheTexas Motor Speedway President is a scoop of mint chocolate chip in a sport getting more vanilla with each passing season. While NASCAR's front office, its teams and drivers have succumbed to the politically correct,...

Love Needs to Conquer All for Lynda and Richard Petty

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It was a country romance that blossomed in the middle of the last century between a pretty high school cheerleader and a lanky young man five years her senior. She was still a teenager, and he was beginning to make a name for himself in the rough and tumble world of 1950s NASCAR racing. Richard...

Former Pro Bull Riders CEO Lassos Indy Racing League

As expected, the IZOD IndyCar Series formally introduced Randy Bernard as the new chairman of the board of both the Indy Racing League and Firestone Indy Lights series Tuesday at the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Bernard, 43, held the same post with the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) for the past 15 years...

Team Hendrick: 2008 Starting Lineup

Hendrick Motorsports 2008 Starting LineupPoint Guard: Jeff GordonShooting Guard: Jimmie JohnsonSmall Forward: Casey MearsPower Forward: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Center: Rick HendrickI suppose it might be difficult for the NASCAR-challenged to understand the magnitude of Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s announcement that he will sign with...

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05/10/12 With Boycott Talk Silenced, Gossage Takes Breath Source: Racin' Today INDYCAR's highly anticipated Open Test at Texas Motor Speedway produced 1,172 incident-free laps around the 1.5-mile quadoval on Monday, and not a single mention of the one word track president Eddie Gossage definitely did not want to hear â boycott.
05/07/12 Kyle Petty's Charity Ride Ends In Victory â Again Source: Racin' Today Moments after the last V-Twin engine went silent, handshakes, high-fives and hugs marked the end of the Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America at Texas Motor Speedway.
04/19/12 In NASCAR good racing starts where the rubber meets... Source: The Mississippi Press - Pascagoula MS The most thankless job in all of auto racing has to be tire supplier -- as in the company responsible for coming up with the right compound for each week's race.
04/14/12 Texas swaps out circuit breakers in lighting system Source: NASCAR Texas Motor Speedway changed out all the circuit breakers in its lighting system prior to Saturday night's Sprint Cup race at the facility to avoid localized outages like those that briefly interrupted the track's Nationwide Series event.
04/13/12 Auto racing: Social media amps up interest in NASCAR Source: TMCnet It only took a few seconds for Brad Keselowski pull out his cell phone, snap the photograph and post it on Twitter.