Racing

It’s a good-news, bad-news kind of day for David Reutimann. Good news: he’s got a ride for 2012, with Tommy Baldwin Racing. Bad news? There’s no sponsor yet. Reutimann and Dave Blaney will make up Baldwin’s 2012 lineup, although there are no details yet as to sponsors, car numbers or crew members. So we’ll just [...]

NASCAR confirmed the 2012 Sprint Cup schedule on Wednesday, and for better or worse, it’s little changed from the existing calendar. Despite recent calls by some drivers for the addition of a road race to the Chase playoff series, the same 10 oval races will decide next year’s championship, once again concluding at Homestead-Miami Speedway [...]

Tony Stewart, who is already 40-years-old, won last year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Stewart, who had an impressive finish to the season, managed to win five of the last 10 Chase for the Sprint Cup competitions. Since Stewart managed to win the championship, he certainly deserves to be the front-runner to win next year’s Sprint [...]

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