daytona 500

During last Saturday's Nationwide Series race the afternoon before the 2013 Daytona 500, a last-lap crash on left some 33 spectators injured when Kyle Larson's car flew into the fence and disintegrated as it rode along the upper edge of the barrier. The flying parts tore a hole in the fence and ...

Many Canadians love watching the Super Bowl of NASCAR, the Daytona 500. This is the first year of a new specification NASCAR race car, the "Gen Six" car, and all of the drivers have been trying to figure out its intricacies. The Ford Fusion and Chevrolet NASCAR SS has joined the field and its ...

Things took a turn for the worse during this weekend's NASCAR events in Daytona when one of the race cars crashed into the fence that separates the track and the grandstands, injuring 33 fans in the process. In our original report, we included video of this horrifying incident from the TV crews' ...

A truly horrifying crash at Saturday's Daytona race has left at least 11 NASCAR fans injured. According to the Associated Press, large chunks of debris landed in the grandstands after a car flew into the fence during a multi-car crash just before the final lap of the race. The awful mess started ...

196.434 miles per hour (316 km/h). That's the top speed hit by Stewart-Haas racing driver Danica Patrick during qualifying for the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Not only was that speed good enough to earn Patrick pole position for the race on Sunday, February 24, it is the ...

Many Canadians were happy to see Holden, GM's Australian car division, bring rear wheel drive power into Canada in the form of the Pontiac G8. Of course, Pontiac is now defunct and GM's Chevrolet Impala is no performance car by any stretch. It's refreshing news, then, that the Holden-based 2014 ...

The 2014 Chevrolet SS will make its racing debut for the 2013 Daytona 500, but the production version of the car will get its official unveiling on February 16 in Daytona, a week before The Great American Race. According to a report by Automotive News, the reveal has been confirmed by Jim ...

You can mark this date on your calendar as VF Day: February 21, 2013. That's the date of the Daytona 500, and depending on which side of the equator you call home it will also mark the introduction of the Chevrolet SS Performance or Holden VF Commodore. Australia newspaper The Age said that when ...

It seems that the car gods did not favour the Daytona 500 running smoothly this year. The race was plagued with rain, pile-ups and then this... the most spectacular crash of the year. Juan Pablo Montoya was running under caution fairly hot to catch up with the rest of the pack. What happened next ...

If "rubbin is racin'!", an incident during the Gatorade Duel races to determine starting spots for this weekend's Daytona 500 NASCAR race also proves that rubbin' is wreckin'. With just two corners to go, Danica Patrick was running near tenth place down on the inside of a tightly packed field. ...