Entries tagged with “Brickyard 400”.


 

Motorsports fans are going to need to find a good NASCAR ticket broker for all of the great upcoming races. The Sprint Cup Series will return to Daytona Motorspeedway this weekend for the Coke Zero 400 on Saturday. Kevin Harvick is right now is the only man keeping Jimmie Johnson from his fifth consecutive Sprint Cup title. The #48 car has already won 5 times already this year and doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. The next race is The LifeLock.com 400 in Chicago where Mark Martin will try to defend his title. Then NASCAR head to Indianapolis for the Brickyard 400 where an expected crowd of 250,000 will watch the world’s best stock car drivers compete. Jimmie Johnson has won the race the two previous years, but former winner Tony Stewart could prove a stiff test. This truly is turning out to be an exciting summer for NASCAR maniacs!


Chasing down Marco Andretti during the final yards of the 2006 Indy 500, Hornish swept past the son of racing royalty to win by about a car length, the distinct rumble of the yard of bricks under his wheels at the finish line telling Hornish he’d finally captured the most-coveted title in open-wheel racing. Hornish still has a realistic shot at catching Regan Smith for rookie of the year honors after this win. However, all will not be well even after this fairy tale win because the driver returns to familiar territory for Sunday’s Brickyard 400 in an unfamiliar position - struggling to find the magic that seemed to flow so easily during Hornish’s dominant open-wheel career for team owner Roger Penske. Despite this, Hornish looks forward to the race for which tickets are selling out fast.