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Retired NASCAR driver Richard “Dick” Trickle died today in North Carolina of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71. A Lincoln County dispatcher received a call — believed to have been placed by Trickle — that “there would be a dead body and it would be his,” that county’s sheriff’s office said in a [read more]

All the major American sports leagues have an All-Star Game and NASCAR isn’t any different. Its event arrives Saturday night in Charlotte with the Sprint Showdown. With bragging rights and more than $1 million on the line, it brings out the best — and worst — in NASCAR’s top stars. The first all-star race took [read more]

The NASCAR Sprint Cup series visits historic Darlington — often called the “Lady in Black” — for Saturday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 and it will mark the return of Denny Hamlin to fully active racing. He’s among the WagerWeb.com betting favorites. Darlington Raceway was built as a 1.25-mile paved superspeedway in 1950. The track was [read more]

It’s one of the most anticipated races of the year Sunday as the NASCAR Sprint Cup series visits Talladega for the first time this season, meaning the cars will have restrictor plates on them for the first time since the Daytona 500 — it also means the cars will be bunched together and that crashes [read more]

It’s rare you see such an overwhelming favorite as this week but Kyle Busch is far and away ahead of the field at +375 on WagerWeb.com to win Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Richmond, the Toyota Owners 400. Richmond International Raceway started out in 1946 as a 1/2-mile dirt oval. The first [read more]

After the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Saturday race of the season last week at Texas, the series returns to Sunday this week and visits Kansas for the first time this year for the STP 400. To no surprise points leader Jimmie Johnson is the +525 favorite at WagerWeb.com — it will be a rare race [read more]

The National Rifle Association is probably not happy after finding out that a Texas man used a gun to commit suicide in the infield of a NRA-sponsored NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday. Kirk Franklin, 42, died after shooting himself at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday during the NRA 500 Sprint Cup race. [read more]

It’s a bit of a controversial race Saturday night in Texas as the National Rifle Association is the title sponsor for the 500-mile event. It’s the first time the NRA has sponsored a Sprint Cup event but it has had a business relationship with the NASCAR industry for more than a decade. Expect some protests, [read more]