Showing posts with label NASCAR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASCAR. Show all posts

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Shaq teams up with James and Sandler to sing start your engines

Another "Grown Ups" movie on the horizon can only mean one thing in NASCAR — another unique rendition of traditional "Drivers, start your engines" by the movie's stars Kevin James and Adam Sandler.

The comedic pair — along with "Grown Ups 2" co-star Shaquille O'Neal — did an ear-shattering a capella version of the command prior to Saturday's Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway to either the delight or the distress of the crowd — depending on your perspective.



After the trio's harmonization, the roar of revving engines and screeching tires probably never sounded so good.

Judge for yourself.



Saturday, July 6, 2013

Wild six-car crash sets up green-white-checker finish at Firecracker 250 (VIDEO)

Just in case you missed your local Fourth of July fireworks display Thursday, there were enough sparks, flames and streamers during a six-car crash at Friday night's Subway Firecracker 250 at Daytona International Speedway to more than light up the sky — or at least the track.



Travis Pastrana started the crash with five laps to go in the scheduled distance of the Nationwide Series race when Pastrana moved down to follow teammate Trevor Bayne and made contact with Cole Whitt, who had drifted up the racetrack.

Jason White, Jamie Dick, Robert Richardson and Jeffrey Earnhardt all got involved in the mechanical scrum, with Pastrana's car violently crashing into White's and then hitting the wall. After his car slid to a stop in the grass before the entrance to pit road, White got out of his car and laid on the ground for a moment. He was tended to by safety workers and walked to the ambulance. White was checked and released from the infield care center; he said that the crash had knocked the wind out of him.



Surprisingly,  this crash was the only one of the evening, as the ensuing green-white-checker restart was completed without an accident despite much jostling and, at times, four-wide racing for third place as Matt Kenseth and James Buescher drove away from the pack. Kenseth ended up winning the race.

Monday, July 1, 2013

Busch takes blame for causing Keselowski pileup at Quaker State 400

Kurt Busch and Brad Keselowski were two of the NASCAR drivers involved in a scary wreck during the 48th lap of the Sprint Cup Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway on Sunday.

The multi-car crash began when Busch, coming back into the track from the apron, bumped the back left of Keselowski's car. The No. 2 then spun down onto the apron before drifting back into the track, losing control before ramming more drivers in the expanding wreck.

It was the worst crash in the track's three-year history of hosting the Sprint Cup Series racing.



"Now that didn't work out so good," Busch said over the radio during the TNT broadcast after the race was temporarily halted under a red flag. "The track just threw me right back into him. That's all my fault."

Greg Biffle, Dave Blaney and Travis Kvapil were among the other drivers whose cars sustained damage.





"I know he didn't intentionally wreck me but it's just one of those things, a chain of events, the way the cars drive." Keselowski told TNT after being released from the care center. "The track has that really bad bump down there. We all know that. So there's no reason to go down there but he still did."

Keselowski had been in contention at the time of the crash, sitting in 10th position.