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3-D Photo Gallery From Daytona International Speedway

February 19, 2011   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Here’s a 3-D photo gallery from Speedweeks here at Daytona International Speedway, as well as several photos from the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour in January.

To see these photos in 3-D, use common red-cyan 3-D glasses. Remember, left eye red.

Except as noted, all 3-D photos were taken by FanHouse motorsports editor Bob Zeller using a Fuji W3 3-D camera.


Jeff Gordon answers questions from fans in a live chat with FanHouse senior motorsports writer Holly Cain from the media center at Daytona on Friday afternoon.

 

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3-D Photo Gallery From Daytona International Speedway

February 18, 2011   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Here’s a 3-D photo gallery from Speedweeks here at Daytona International Speedway, as well as several photos from the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour in January.

To see these photos in 3-D, use common red-cyan 3-D glasses. Remember, left eye red.

Except as noted, all 3-D photos were taken by FanHouse motorsports editor Bob Zeller using a Fuji W3 3-D camera.


Jeff Gordon answers questions from fans in a live chat with FanHouse senior motorsports writer Holly Cain from the media center at Daytona on Friday afternoon.

 

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Star-Studded Lineup For Rolex 24 at Daytona; Porsche Leads the Way

January 28, 2011   Holly Cain   No comments

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The reigning NASCAR and IZOD IndyCar Series champions highlight a star-studded field for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the Grand-Am Series’ season-opener at Daytona International Speedway this weekend.

But it’s one of sports car’s more traditional names, Porsche, that both five-time NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson and two-time IndyCar champ Dario Franchitti will be chasing when the green flag drops at 3:30 p.m. (ET) Saturday.

German Jorg Bergmeister will start the No. 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche from the pole Saturday in the twice-around-the clock event that has again attracted a Who’s Who list of auto racing greats.

Three Indy 500 winners, defending Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray (above left) and a potent mix of current and former NASCAR, IndyCar and Formula One drivers are giving it a go against the best sports car drivers in the world on the 3.56-mile Daytona road course.

Johnson and McMurray are trying to join Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt as the only drivers to win a Daytona 500 and Rolex 24 crown. Johnson will co-drive with former series champs Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty in the No. 99 GAINSCO Chevrolet and will start 10th in the marquee Daytona Prototype class. They were fastest in Friday’s final practice.

McMurray is part of an two-car wonder lineup for three-time Rolex winner Chip Ganassi Racing. He’ll co-drive the No. 02 BMW with three IndyCar Series champs, Scott Dixon, Franchitti and open-wheel-to-NASCAR convert Juan Pablo Montoya (above, center, chatting with Memo Rojas). They will start fifth among the 18 prototypes .

The other Ganassi car features defending Grand-Am Series champs Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas along with Ganassi’s newest IndyCar driver Graham Rahal and sports car veteran Joey Hand. It will roll off third.

 

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Jimmie Johnson (Who Else?) Named Driver of the Year

December 15, 2010   Holly Cain   No comments

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Five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has been named Driver of the Year for the fourth time — tying a record with Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon for the most wins in the prestigious award’s 44-year history and putting him ahead of three-time winners Mario Andretti and Darrell Waltrip.

Johnson, who is the first to win five consecutive Sprint Cup titles, edged drag racing legend John Force, who won a historic 15th National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) championship. Johnson received 10 first-place votes from the 20-member panel of racing journalists and broadcasters while Force earned seven votes. Kyle Busch, who won a NASCAR-best 24 races in three national divisions this season, received one first-place vote.

“Among such tough competition; with the voting panel, who it is and how well-versed they are in motorsports, it’s a huge, huge honor,” said Johnson, who will receive a Tissot watch and trophy from the organization.

Driver of the Year President Barry Smoyer said the final vote came following one of the most “spirited” debates in the history of the award, which honors the best driver in an American four-wheel racing series or best American driver racing overseas.

“As many people have said already, it will be a long time before anyone will set the bar as high as Jimmie Johnson,” Schmoyer said.

 

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Jimmie Johnson Taking Time to Savor Fifth Championship in Las Vegas

December 03, 2010   Holly Cain   No comments

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LAS VEGAS — In a luxury suite in the Bellagio Hotel high above the Las Vegas strip, Jimmie Johnson was all smiles and “aw shucks” on the eve of collecting an unprecedented fifth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship trophy. He was at the hotel to meet with a small group of reporters and to unveil the true benchmark of an athlete’s success.

Forget the historic five NASCAR titles, Johnson now has a video game named after him: “Jimmie Johnson’s Anything With an Engine.”

The game doesn’t go on sale until 2011, but the concept launch this week meant the vivid collision between two of America’s favorite pastimes, video gaming and NASCAR. And it was interesting to observe the hip, young gaming reporters, dressed in black adorned with lots of zippers and skull designs and colorful tattoos, sizing up the NASCAR All-American good guy’s entry into their eclectic world.

“So how does it feel to be a legend?” asked Jon Carnage, a former professional wrestler who is now a reporter from the video game blog Destructoid. He clearly caught the humble Johnson off guard.

“It’s still strange to me that I hear that,” Johnson replied.

Perhaps he should get used to it.

 

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Opens Up About Team Shake-Up and His Popularity

December 02, 2010   Holly Cain   No comments

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LAS VEGAS — The only suspense in Thursday’s announcement of NASCAR‘s 2010 Most Popular Driver Award rested with the winner. For the eighth consecutive year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. claimed the honor — tops among the 1.5 million fan votes — once again proving his popularity is soaring even if his on-track efforts have fallen flat.

“Oh yeah, I was surprised,” Earnhardt claimed moments after accepting the award during NASCAR Champion’s Week. “You just never know. There’s the performance factor we’ve suffered from on the race track, there’s the new guys coming into the sport all the time. You never take it for granted.”

The same could be said for winning.

Earnhardt hasn’t won a race in nearly three seasons and hasn’t even been consistently competitive in the No. 88 National Guard-Amp Energy Chevrolet, while his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson will be crowned champion for the fifth consecutive year in Friday night’s lavish NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Banquet at the Wynn Las Vegas.

The juxtaposition isn’t lost on the third-generation driver, son of the late seven-time champion, Dale Earnhardt. The 2004 Daytona 500 champ and 18-race winner is hoping a three-way crew chief swap at Hendrick will infuse new life into his career. And it can’t happen soon enough.

 

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Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR Dynasty May Make Him Greatest Champion

November 21, 2010   Motorsports FanHouse   No comments

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson joined his team on the crowded stage, hurriedly set up on the Homestead-Miami Speedway front stretch and, with confetti flying in the air, raised NASCAR‘s crown jewel, the Sprint Cup Series championship trophy, for an unprecedented fifth consecutive time.

Only seven-time champions Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt have more hardware. And as the humble, low-key Californian hugged his wife, kissed his infant daughter, embraced his dad and gazed out into the crowd, Johnson was struck by something that helped him realize he had finally made it.

“There was a fan standing right up front with an ‘I Hate the 48′ T-shirt and he gave me the thumbs-up and said, ‘Congratulations,’ ” the driver of the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet recalled with a laugh. “I have people tell me they hate me, but they respect me and that’s always cool. If this takes it to the next level, then right on.”

So it is for the most dominant race car driver in NASCAR history. The more he wins, the more trophies he collects, the more people clamor for someone else to step up.

How about, instead, we honor this great accomplishment and appreciate the good fortune to be witnessing sports history.

Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR Dynasty May Make Him Greatest Champion originally appeared on Motorsports FanHouse on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:46:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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Denny Hamlin Already Looking Toward 2011

November 21, 2010   Motorsports FanHouse   No comments

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Only 25 laps into Sunday’s Ford 400 NASCAR season finale, Denny Hamlin realized his day was going to be long, and his hopes of holding off his two championship challengers diminished as the hot South Florida afternoon wore on.

When the green flag dropped, his 15-point championship lead over four-time defending Sprint Cup series champ Jimmie Johnson technically vanished, based on Hamlin’s 38th-place starting position compared to Johnson’s sixth.

Then on lap 25, Hamlin collided with Greg Biffle, sending Hamlin’s No. 11 FedEx Toyota spinning on the infield grass — an omen for what would come. Tire problems, pit road miscommunication and then an ill-timed caution period late in the race spelled his ultimate doom. The 30-year-old driver finished 14th in the race and became the first driver in NASCAR’s seven-year Chase playoff format not to win the title when leading the championship with one race remaining.

“It’s tough, trust me, these years don’t come by too often in anyone’s career,” said Hamlin, who finished championship runner-up, 39 points behind the newly crowned five-time champion Johnson.

“I was privileged enough to be part of the closest championship in (Chase) history and give it my best effort, but it wasn’t enough today. Our car got banged up and we just couldn’t overcome it.”

Denny Hamlin Already Looking Toward 2011 originally appeared on Motorsports FanHouse on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:53:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR Dynasty May Make Him Greatest Champion

November 21, 2010   Holly Cain   No comments

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson joined his team on the crowded stage, hurriedly set up on the Homestead-Miami Speedway front stretch and, with confetti flying in the air, raised NASCAR‘s crown jewel, the Sprint Cup Series championship trophy, for an unprecedented fifth consecutive time.

Only seven-time champions Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt have more hardware. And as the humble, low-key Californian hugged his wife, kissed his infant daughter, embraced his dad and gazed out into the crowd, Johnson was struck by something that helped him realize he had finally made it.

“There was a fan standing right up front with an ‘I Hate the 48′ T-shirt and he gave me the thumbs-up and said, ‘Congratulations,’ ” the driver of the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet recalled with a laugh. “I have people tell me they hate me, but they respect me and that’s always cool. If this takes it to the next level, then right on.”

So it is for the most dominant race car driver in NASCAR history. The more he wins, the more trophies he collects, the more people clamor for someone else to step up.

How about, instead, we honor this great accomplishment and appreciate the good fortune to be witnessing sports history.

 

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Jimmie Johnson Wins Fifth Straight NASCAR Title, Carl Edwards Wins Race

November 21, 2010   Motorsports FanHouse   No comments

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The Jimmie Johnson dynasty in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series stretched to half a decade at Homestead-Miami Speedway Sunday as the most dominant driver the sport has ever seen won his fifth straight championship with a second-place finish in the Ford 400 season finale.

As Carl Edwards motored to his second straight victory in as many weeks, leading 190 laps, Johnson fought back from early pit problems, settled into his regular routine and came on at the end to seal the title.

For Edwards, the two consecutive victories came after a 70-race winless streak.

“This is unreal,” Edwards said in victory lane. “It’s a great way to finish the season. I think the way we’re going, if we can start like that, our Aflac team will have a shot at them next year.

“To finish like this is unreal. It’s just these guys not giving up. We don’t give up. We’ve had just an unbelievable run toward the end of this season. It’s just a great way to end the season.”

The championship battle was a nail-biting contest whose complexion changed time and time again throughout the 267-lap event.

Jimmie Johnson Wins Fifth Straight NASCAR Title, Carl Edwards Wins Race originally appeared on Motorsports FanHouse on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:42:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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