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2024 NASCAR Cup Series
file:william Byron 24 Sonoma 2024.jpg, Chevrolet won the manufacturers' championship with 1309 points and 15 wins. The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series was the 76th season for NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 53rd season for the modern-era Cup Series. The pre-season started with the Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum, Busch Light Clash on February 3 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Clash would then be followed by the Bluegreen Vacations Duel qualifying races on February 15. The season would then officially kick off with the 66th running of the 2024 Daytona 500, Daytona 500 (the first points race of the season) on February 19, both at Daytona International Speedway. The season ended with the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway on November 10. This was the first season without 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2014 champion Kevin Harvick since 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, 2000, as he retired after the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of NASCAR Cup Series Champions
file:NASCAR Bill France Cup 2022.jpg, The current NASCAR Cup Series trophy, the Bill France Cup The NASCAR Cup Series Drivers' Championship is awarded by the chairman of NASCAR to the most successful NASCAR Cup Series racing car driver over a season, as determined by a NASCAR rules and regulations#Championship points system, points system based on race results. The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 1949 in NASCAR, 1949 to Red Byron. The first driver to win multiple Championships was Herb Thomas in 1951 in NASCAR, 1951 and 1953 in NASCAR, 1953. The current Drivers' Champion is Joey Logano, who won his third NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2024 NASCAR Cup Series, 2024. The NASCAR points system has undergone several incarnations since its initial implementation. Originally, races awarded points by a complicated system based upon final positioning and weighted by prize money purses, such that higher-paying events gave more points. Soon after the advent of the modern era in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Kyle Larson, the 2014 NASCAR Rookie of the Year. file:Jimmie Johnson Dale Earnhardt Jr. cars at Hendrick Engines 2014.jpg"> List_of_NASCAR_Manufacturers%27_champions">Manufacturer's championship with 20 wins & 1572 points, their 13th championship in a row. They wouldn't win again until 2021 The 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was the 66th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 43rd modern-era Cup season. The season began at Daytona International Speedway, with the Sprint Unlimited, followed by the Daytona 500. The season ended with the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This season was the final year of broadcasting for both the ESPN family of networks and Turner Sports. ESPN had covered the second half of the Sprint Cup season since 2007 while Turner Sports ended a thirty-one year relationship with NASCAR on TBS and later TNT. For 2015, their portions of the season were divided between Fox Sports and NBC. Kevin Harvick and St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
file:Erik Jones 2017 NASCAR Media Tour.jpg, Erik Jones, the 2017 NASCAR Rookie of the Year file:Martin Truex Jr. Sonoma 2017.jpg, Toyota won their second manufacturer's championship with 16 wins and 1292 points. The 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series was the 69th season of professional stock car racing in the United States, and the 46th modern-era Cup series season. The season began at Daytona International Speedway with the Advance Auto Parts Clash, the Can-Am Duel qualifying races and the 59th running of the Daytona 500. The season ended with the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Jimmie Johnson entered the season as the defending champion, having won his record-tying seventh Cup championship that he shares with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. Martin Truex Jr. of Furniture Row Racing won the championship, his first in the series. Toyota won the Manufacturers' Championship for the second year in a row. This was the third season of a 10-year television co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haas Factory Team
Haas Factory Team (HFT) is an American professional stock car racing team that competes in the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is owned by Haas Automation founder Gene Haas. It made its debut in 2025, following the closure of Stewart–Haas Racing at the conclusion of the 2024 season. The team is based and headquartered in Kannapolis, North Carolina – roughly north of Charlotte Motor Speedway – alongside sister team and Formula One entrant Haas F1 Team, though the two teams are separate entities. The team currently operates out of the same shop Stewart–Haas Racing operated out of prior to its closure. History On May 28, 2024, it was announced that Stewart–Haas Racing would be shutting down the team's Cup and Xfinity teams following the 2024 season. Less than a month later, on June 20, Gene Haas announced he will keep one of the team's charters and reorganize the team as Haas Factory Team, with Joe Custer as the team president. Haas also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Haas
Gene Francis Haas (born November 12, 1952) is the American founder, president, and sole stockholder of Haas Automation, a CNC machine tool manufacturer. He also has founded the NASCAR teams Haas CNC Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing and Haas Factory Team, as well as the Formula One team, Haas F1 Team. Haas Automation Haas graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance. He originally majored in engineering but switched to business after Lockheed nearly went bankrupt. However, his summer machine shop jobs paid the same amount as the work he was able to find after graduation so he kept working as a machinist and CNC programmer and in 1978 hired two people to work with him in his small machine shop he named Pro-turn Engineering. In 1980, Haas noticed that it took one of his employees a long time to manually position an indexer. Haas thought that building his own indexer with a stepper motor drive would b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart–Haas Racing
Stewart–Haas Racing was an American professional stock car racing team that competed in both the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team was co-owned by three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart and Gene Haas, founder of Haas Automation. The team was established in 2009 after Stewart left Joe Gibbs Racing and entered a partnership with Haas, acquiring a 50% stake in the team and merging with the former Haas CNC Racing team. Stewart–Haas Racing permanently shut down at the conclusion of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season. The team was based and headquartered in Kannapolis, North Carolina – roughly north of Charlotte Motor Speedway – alongside sister team and Formula One entrant Haas F1 Team. From its inception until 2016, the team ran with Chevrolet engines and chassis provided by Hendrick Motorsports. Beginning in 2017 the team began partnering with Roush-Yates Engines and switched to Ford engines, while building their ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Stewart
Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed "Smoke", is an American semi-retired professional auto racing driver, and former NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing. He currently competes in the NHRA Top Fuel class. He is a four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, winning two as a driver (2002, 2005), one as owner/driver (2011), and one as an owner (2014). Throughout his racing career, Stewart has won racing titles in IndyCar Series, Indy, midget car racing, midget, sprint car racing, sprint, and United States Automobile Club, USAC Silver Crown cars. He is the only driver in history to win a championship in both IndyCar and NASCAR. Stewart became known for his hot temper and for his sarcasm with the media. He last competed full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (now known as the NASCAR Cup Series) during the 2016 season, driving the No. 14 Chevrolet SS for his team, Stewart-Haas Racing, under crew chief Mike Bugarewicz. From 1999 to 2008, he drove the No. 20 Joe G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Business Journal
This is a list of subsidiaries of the American media company Advance Publications Inc. Local media groups The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local Advance Media New York *'' The Post-Standard'' (Syracuse, New York) **Syracuse.com **NYup.com ***New York Cannabis Insider **''Central New York Magazine'' Advance Ohio *''The Plain Dealer'' (Cleveland, Ohio) / Cleveland.com Alabama Media Group *AL.com and The Lede **'' The Birmingham News'' (Birmingham, Alabama) **'' The Huntsville Times'' (Huntsville, Alabama) **'' Press-Register'' (Mobile, Alabama) *Alabama Education Lab *Red Clay Media **It's a Southern Thing **This is Alabama **People of Alabama MassLive Media *'' The Republican'' (Springfield, Massachusetts) / MassLive.com MLive Media Group *MLive.com **'' The Ann Arbor News'' (Ann Arbor, Michigan) **'' Bay City Times'' (Bay City, Michigan) **''The Flint Journal'' (Flint, Michigan) **'' Grand Rapids Press'' (Grand Rapids, Michigan) **''Kalamazoo Gazette'' (Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aric Almirola
Aric Michael Almirola (born March 14, 1984) is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 19 Toyota GR Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing. Almirola previously competed full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, as well as what is now the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, and ARCA Menards Series West. Racing career Early career Almirola was born on Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, of Cuban descent. He began racing go-karts when he was eight years old. At age 14, he began racing nationally. He won the pole position in his debut in the World Karting Association race and finished fourth in the standings that year. Two years later, he moved up into modifieds and won several Rookie of the Year awards. NASCAR In 2002, Almirola moved to the NASCAR Sun Belt Weekly Racing Division and finished second in the Rookie of the Year standings. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Andy Lally's car at Pocono Raceway, he won the NASCAR Rookie of the Year">Rookie of the Year. thumb">Chevrolet won the List_of_NASCAR_Manufacturers%27_champions, Manufacturer's championship with 18 wins & 248 points. The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was the 63rd season of Sprint Cup Series, professional stock car racing in the United States and the 40th modern-era Cup series season. The season included 36 races and two exhibition races, beginning with the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway and ending with the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The final ten races were known as 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup. The 2011 season is considered by many to be one of the greatest and most exciting seasons in Cup Series history. It had the closest points battle in history, with Tony Stewart winning the Drivers' Championship with a victory at the final race of the season in a tiebreaker over Carl Edwards due to having five wins on the season vs. Edwards' one win. To m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASCAR On Fox
''NASCAR on Fox'', also known as ''Fox NASCAR'', is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races produced by Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports and have aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox television network in the United States since 2001. Speed (TV channel), Speed, a motorsports-focused cable channel owned by Fox, began broadcasting NASCAR-related events in February 2002, with its successor Fox Sports 1 taking over Fox Sports' cable event coverage rights when that network replaced Speed in August 2013. Throughout its run, Fox's coverage of NASCAR has won thirteen Emmy Awards. History 2001–2006 contract On November 11, 1999, NASCAR signed a contract that awarded the U.S. television rights to its races to four networks (two that would hold the broadcast television rights and two that would hold the cable television rights), split between Fox and sister cable channel FX (TV channel), FX, and NASCAR on NBC, NBC and NASCAR on TBS, TBS (whose rights were later assumed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
