Former NASCAR chairman Bill France dies
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Bill France Jr., who transformed NASCAR from a small Southern sport into a billion-dollar conglomerate during his 31 years as chairman, died Monday. He was 74.
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Bill France, the son of NASCAR founder William France, Sr. who is credited with helping grow the stock car racing circuit into a multi-billion dollar U.S. sports phenomenon, died on Monday in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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In the fall of 2002, Tony Stewart left Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway as the NASCAR Winston Cup Series point leader. He came into the fourth and final restrictor plate race of
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Although his late father, William H.G. France, founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, William C. France was recalled yesterday as the iron-fisted driving force who helped grow stock car racing from a regional sport based in the southeastern United States into a billion-dollar enterprise that carved a niche in the American sporting landscape as the most-watched form ...
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A second day of scandal hit the Daytona 500 on Wednesday when two-time winner Michael Waltrip's crew chief and team director were thrown out of NASCAR's biggest race for cheating.
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SANFORD, Fla. -- A small plane registered to a company linked to NASCAR's late chairman crashed into two houses while trying to make an emergency landing Tuesday, killing five people and starting fires that seriously burned three others, authorities said.
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A plane owned by the Hendrick Motorsports organization crashed Sunday on its way to a NASCAR race, killing all 10 people aboard, federal officials said. A spokesman for a funeral home where the bodies were being taken said the dead included the son, brother and two nieces of Rick Hendrick, owner of one of the most successful organizations in NASCAR history.
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Race car driver Tommy Baldwin was killed in a crash at Thompson International Speedway during a Featherlite modified race.
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NASCAR issues its biggest fine in history and?ejects two employees of Michael Waltrip Racing from Daytona for mixing illegal substances in its?fuel.
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Billy Reay, who played on two Stanley Cup champions with Montreal and became the winningest coach in Chicago Blackhawks&#39; history, died at 86.
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Australian motor racing great Peter Brock is killed in a rallying accident in Western Australia.
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(OfficialWire) -- 10/25/04 -- According to Jim Hunter, NASCARâs vice president for corporate communications, a plane owned by the NASCAR race team Hendrick Motorsports
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Former National League Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti, who in 2002 admitted he used steroids, died of a heart attack in New York on Sunday, Major League Baseball reported on its Web Site.
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Martin Truex Jr. earned his first career victory for Dale Earnhardt Inc., winning at Dover International Speedway on Monday hours after the death of longtime NASCAR chairman Bill France Jr.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- When Phil Parsons, brother of the late Benny Parsons, unfurls the green flag as honorary starter of today's 49th Daytona 500, the sighs of relief from NASCAR officials will be drowned out by the roar of 43 stock cars at Daytona International Speedway.
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Amid reports Fenway Sports Group, a 50-50 partner in the Roush Fenway Racing team, had expressed an interest in purchasing his track, Bob Bahre , the 80-year-old chairman of New Hampshire International Speedway, predicted after yesterday's Sylvania 300 that his 1.058-mile oval "some day will be sold."
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Defending Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart is eliminated from NASCAR's Chase for the championship with an 18th place finish Saturday in Richmond.