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Those Aren't Headlights; It's Santa!

Southlake Developer Wants to Put a Race Track in His Hotel. Like, For Cars.

When Jeff Medici was a financial advisor for Fidelity in Boston, he took his corporate team to a place called F1 Boston, a sort of racing-themed conference center where they learned to work together and trust each other by doing things like changing tires on Formula 1 race cars. When he moved to N ... More >>

The Night After Cancellation, EDC Closes Fest With Massive Turnout

See also: DC9 at Night's coverage of last year's EDC Organizers of the second annual Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas declared the three-day party a success , despite high-winds that cut its marquee night short on Saturday. Promoters say a whopping 115,000 people were in attendance on the fin ... More >>

Derek Walker's Gone From Airwaves to Dirt Track

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. In 2009, KZPS-FM 92.5 fired Derek Walker from their promotions crew. Unfortunately, he was sorely misunderstood by the marketing department's then-head honcho, and was let go after going ... More >>

Extreme Exremeness and Extreme Stuff!

Good Guys, Hot Rides

Get Your Motor Running

Over The Weekend: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at Dada

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.DadaMay 27, 2011Better than: making a left turn, and then a left turn, and then a left turn...Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.​It speaks to the power of the Internet/new music business model when a band with only four officially-released tracks is able to embark on a headlining cross-c ... More >>

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Approves of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

With Richie Whitt on his pit crew, Tony Stewart faded fast at Texas Motor Speedway

We're almost sure it was a coincidence.

Fastest Show on Earth

NASCAR's Ringmaster

High Flyin' Wheelies

A wacky Daytona 500 is won by a young driver who cut his NASCAR teeth in Texas.

Trucks, Trucks, Trucks, Trucks

Daytona 500: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. NASCAR fans are loyal and rabid and ... strange. I asked a guy who he was rooting for before Sunday's Daytona 500 here in Florida and his answer: "Dodge." Imagine NFL fans picking their favorite team based on whether they wore Nike or Reebok or Under Armour. 9. All the yellow cauti ... More >>

After Further Review, NASCAR Has Everything

Wild weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. I saw girls in checkered-flag bikinis, monkeys selling programs, a rare pit-crew substitution and even a NASCAR fight. Delicious.

Eat for a Cause -- Other Than Being Hungry,
We Mean

​Put your money where your mouth is. Various Dallas eateries are supplying food and drink for a cause. Read on for details of this week's charitable happenings. The place: Texas Motor Speedway/Asphalt Chef The cause: Speedway Children's Charities and Mario Batali Foundation Pork, gulf shrim ... More >>

Texas Motorplex Celebrates Its Unlikely Silver Anniversary With A Little Help From Championship Driver John Force.

Trucks, Trucks, Trucks

10 Questions: Helio Castroneves

Not only is he on the poll for this year's Indy 500, Castroneves has won the "greatest spectacle in racing" twice before. He's also been a winner at Texas Motor Speedway and--just to show he has moves off the track--Dancing with the Stars, as well.The Sao Paulo native earned the nickname "Spiderman" ... More >>

Into the Heart of the Texas Motor Speedway Tailgates... I Lived It.

Kelly Knickerbocker Not exactly the type of skin we're used to on this blog, but intern Kelly was brave enough to meander through Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend. Her report from the mayhem and mullets ...  I wearily ventured into the world of NASCAR last Friday, knowing I'd stick o ... More >>

10 Questions: Jeff Burton

It wouldn't be a stretch to say he's a fan of Texas Motor Speedway. After, all, Burton's first career win in NASCAR's top series came here in 1997. A decade later, he became the track's first repeat winner.The South Boston, Virginia, native has taken the checkered flag 21 times in 16 years of rubbin ... More >>

Get Into Gear

NASCAR hits TMS for some serious fuel-burning

NASCAR drivers start your engines: It's about the most athletic thing you'll be doing during the Samsung 500.

Playing the Race Card, or: At Least Someone's Making Use of Fair Park.

My little brother used to have the LeRoy Neiman poster at right hanging above his bed. Last I saw of the thing, it was gathering dust in the folks' garage, but I remember that mess of a race like it was yesterday -- temps well above 100, the narrow track all but melting away, crash after crash. Firs ... More >>

Trucks, Trucks, Trucks, Trucks

Shift Happens

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life.  

Racin' to the Big Stage with Dale and Eddie

Killer Cars and Trucks

The Craftsman Truck Series hits the Speedway

Going for Broke

NASCAR team owner Jeff Milburn might never win a race, but there's more to life than a checkered flag

Loose Is Fast

NASCAR invades North Texas

Here's Mindy

The Human Race

If you like NASCAR... you might be a redneck

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Chevy Speed Stampede, with Willie Nelson, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, more

Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5, at Main Street and Griffin Street

Really Fast Food

Where do race-car drivers eat?

New Moves

Tripsichore strikes a pose

Head in the Sand

Dust to Glory honors the Baja 1000, where everybody's a legend

Godspeed, Goodspeed

Plus: John Cocktoastin'; Kick ASSCAR

Contain Yourself

Grow a good time

Down & Dirty

To the extreme

Greasing the Wheels

How Texas Motor Speedway got Denton County to pay for a freeway exit to nowhere—except, that is, to the speedway

Road Warrior

Texas Motor Speedway needed property to build a road. Someone forgot to tell the landowner.

Night & Day

March 25 - 31, 1999

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The racer's edge

Hunt alliance gives weaker track developer big edge

A Metroplex mega-autoplex?

Buckle your seat belts, Dallas: NASCAR is coming