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Toyota Wins NASCAR Race at New Hampshire
Toyota Wins NASCAR Race at New Hampshire

15 Jul 2013, 09:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire was filled with cautions and drivers had to worry about their tires. Qualifying results placed Toyota drivers all across the grid, but fortunately,...

 
2013 Toyota Camry: Street Car vs. NASCAR
2013 Toyota Camry: Street Car vs. NASCAR

12 Jul 2013, 15:19 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / No matter how much we’d like to think about present day NASCAR as being real stock car racing, this is just a nice and honest thought. NASCAR’s obviously not what it used to be, but it d...

 
Street Toyota Camry vs NASCAR Version
Street Toyota Camry vs NASCAR Version

12 Jul 2013, 15:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Believe it or not, NASCAR as you know it today has its origins from bootlegging during Prohibition in the 1930s, when the booze smugglers were using stock looking but performance upgraded cars to tr...

 
Toyota Claimed 4th and 5th Places at 2013 Coke Zero 400
Toyota Claimed 4th and 5th Places at 2013 Coke Zero 400

8 Jul 2013, 10:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota NASCAR driver Kyle Busch claimed his thirteenth career pole position, lapping the track at Daytona International Speedway in just 46.458 seconds and a speed of 193.723 mph (311.767 km/h). ...

 
Toyota NASCAR Uses Tablets With Special App for Racing
Toyota NASCAR Uses Tablets With Special App for Racing

4 Jul 2013, 14:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Back in the old days, there was no connection between the driver and the crew at the pitstop, no fancy sensors, no antennae, just the man and the machine. That was true racing. But with the techn...

 
See Matt Kenseth Winning for Toyota at Kentucky
See Matt Kenseth Winning for Toyota at Kentucky

1 Jul 2013, 15:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you missed the Quaker State 400 race this weekend, here is a short video highlighting the most important moments, as well as Corolla driver Matt Kenseth winning and celebrating. The race was p...

 
Toyota Camry Driver Matt Kenseth Wins at Kentucky
Toyota Camry Driver Matt Kenseth Wins at Kentucky

1 Jul 2013, 12:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Racing got another prize on its shelf after Matt Kenseth won the Sprint Cup race at Kentucky this weekend. After coming on 16th place in qualifying, Toyota Camry driver Kenseth had enough ...

 
Unlucky Kurt Busch Placed on Fourth in Toyota/Save Mart 350
Unlucky Kurt Busch Placed on Fourth in Toyota/Save Mart 350

24 Jun 2013, 20:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota NASCAR driver Kurt Busch had its car running perfectly at Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 race held on Sonoma Raceway, but it was the luck that wasn’t on its side. He finished fo...

 
Ford NASCAR Drivers Have Some Mustang Track Fun
Ford NASCAR Drivers Have Some Mustang Track Fun

24 Jun 2013, 13:37 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Despite popular belief, NASCAR drivers can do more than just take left turns all day on an oval track. In fact, most of them have already raced at several non-NASCAR events, while the others have en...

 
Mad Max Interceptor Replica for Sale in the UK
Mad Max Interceptor Replica for Sale in the UK

17 Jun 2013, 14:36 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Rated as one of the best post-apocalyptical motion pictures ever created, the Mad Max series left behind a famous man-machine couple: Mel Gibson and his Ford Falcon XB GT Interceptor. Now residin...

 
NASCAR’s Jason Leffler Dies After Dirt Track Crash
NASCAR’s Jason Leffler Dies After Dirt Track Crash

13 Jun 2013, 14:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / NASCAR driver Jason Leffler was killed in a dirt track crash that occurred Wednesday night at a sprint car race at the Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey. According to ESPN, the 37-year-old driver wa...

 
NASCAR Racer Roars at the Nurburgring
NASCAR Racer Roars at the Nurburgring

11 Jun 2013, 14:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Very popular in the United States, NASCAR is a strange sport to Europeans, basically being viewed as a competition where tens of driver take left turns all day on a boring oval track. However, some ...

 
Toyota Loses Power at Pocono - Still Finishes Race
Toyota Loses Power at Pocono - Still Finishes Race

11 Jun 2013, 15:46 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota’s NASCAR racing team confronted several engine failures in the earlier races, which led the them tho reduce the racing car’s power output in order to last longer. TRD didn&rsqu...

 
Ford Announces NASCAR Nationwide Series Milestone
Ford Announces NASCAR Nationwide Series Milestone

10 Jun 2013, 12:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford Racing has announced that Trevor Bayne’s win at Iowa Speedway last weekend was the company’s 200th victory in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Trevor Bayne won the DuPont Pioneer 25...

 
NASCAR Legend Dick Trickle Commits Suicide
NASCAR Legend Dick Trickle Commits Suicide

19 May 2013, 08:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle died from a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday, May 16, in North Carolina. Retired in 2002, Trickle was 71 years old. According to local authorities,...

 
2008 Ford Mustang Goes Wild with NASCAR Engine
2008 Ford Mustang Goes Wild with NASCAR Engine

19 May 2013, 07:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / If you own a fifth-generation Mustang with a 5.0-liter Coyote V8 under the hood, you can already call it a classic. It's that popular. However, Ford's pony can also be had with supercharge...

 
Cotton Owens’ Dodge NASCAR Hauler Shows Up on eBay
Cotton Owens’ Dodge NASCAR Hauler Shows Up on eBay

11 May 2013, 07:08 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / If you’re looking to buy something unique, then this is the right place to be. Now don’t be thinking about them Ferraris and Lamborghinis, we have some totally different for you: a Dodge...

 
Ford Torino King Cobra Prototype Goes on Sale
Ford Torino King Cobra Prototype Goes on Sale

9 May 2013, 08:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you are into muscle cars, you probably know about the Dodge Charger Daytona and the Plymouth Superbird NASCAR legends. In response to those cars, Ford created the Torino King Cobra. Sadly, it nev...

 
NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon Hits 214 MPH During Indy Tire Test
NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon Hits 214 MPH During Indy Tire Test

1 May 2013, 13:48 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Hendrick Motorsports’ driver Jeff Gordon has reached an amazing 214 miles per hour (344 km/h) in his NASCAR prepped Chevrolet SS during tire testing in Indianapolis yesterday. The incredibl...

 
Valentino Rossi Does 185 MPH in a Nascar Beast
Valentino Rossi Does 185 MPH in a Nascar Beast

24 Apr 2013, 12:21 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Valentino Rossi like to be fast, but for him it matters quite little how he does this. Sunday was his turn to drive a Nascar, namely Kyle Busch's 650 HP Toyota. Fresh off from the second Mot...