Steve Byrnes, Larry McReynolds, Jeff Hammond and Darrell Waltrip will bring their popular SPEED Trackside show to the annual uptown Charlotte NASCAR street festival on Friday at 7 p.m. ET. Guests will include three-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson and NASCAR Hall of Fame director Winston Kelly. As the popular series closes in on its 275th show, it is important to note that is was Trackside’s first live-audience show in Uptown Charlotte in 2003 that set the course for the development of NASCAR on SPEED. SPEED commissioned JHE Production Group to construct and manage a traveling stage truck for the Friday night pre-race show. The Trackside stage truck made its debut in Daytona in 2004. The idea was to ... FULL STORY »
NASCAR VICTORY LANE POST-RACE SHOW SETS NEW RATINGS HIGH SPEED scored a Nielsen Household Rating of 3.68 (2,691,000 households), down just 2 percent from last year’s 3.74 (2,701,000 households) for Saturday’s live broadcast of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXV. ... FULL STORY »
Dave Despain got to have a little extra fun Wednesday at ZMax Dragway, with a major assist from defending Pennzoil Victory Challenge winner Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford Fusion. In the parking lot of ZMax ... FULL STORY »
Stewart, Waltrip, Truex, Allmendinger Among Those to Pop First Sprint Cup Series Champagne Bottle in Last Chance Qualifier It appears a win is a win at NASCAR’s highest level … no matter how or where you get it. While all NASCAR Sprint Cup ... FULL STORY »
Television and movie actor Patrick Dempsey was a guest on Sunday’s Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain on SPEED. Dempsey, star of the hit TV series Grey’s Anatomy, joined Despain to talk about his love for racing, his driving career ... FULL STORY »
In celebration of Mother’s Day weekend, Wendy Venturini will have an exclusive extended interview with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his mother, Brenda Jackson, as part of Venturini’s weekly “Real Deal” feature on the popular SPEED pre-race show NASCAR RaceDay Built ... FULL STORY »
ManMade Thunder is the new book from award-winning publisher dakini and SPEED. Written by Godwin Kelly, widely acknowledged to be one of the best motorsports journalists in America, the book examines the sport of stock car racing through the eyes ... FULL STORY »