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10.01.2009 11:00 pm

Batycki out as Gateway VP/GM

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

After three seasons as vice president and general manager of Gateway International Raceway, Lenny Batycki has “mutually parted ways” with Dover Motorsports Inc.

Batycki, 46, learned the news on Thursday when Dover Motorsports chief executive officer Denis McGlynn and executive vice…

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07.17.2009 7:55 pm

Coleman Fastest In First Practice

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Brad Coleman was the fastest in the first practice session Friday at Gateway International Raceway as the teams prepared for Saturday’s Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the 1.25-mile oval in Madison.

Coleman, who drives the No. 20…

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04.22.2009 5:19 pm

Big shakeup at Richard Childress Racing

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

This comes from the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service …

Harvick, Mears to swap teams after Talladega

Special to the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

(April 22, 2009)

With Kevin Harvick stuck in a 79-race winless streak and 16th in the points standings, and…

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01.02.2009 11:36 pm

NASCAR faces a rocky road in 2009

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

With the apparent disappearance of storied Petty Enterprises into a conglomo with Gillett Evernham Motors closing the book on 2008, ol’ Left Turns is left looking at 2009 with the glass half-empty and definitely without rose-colored glasses.

Not that the demise of Petty…

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10.01.2008 11:35 am

K. & M. Wallace, Schrader Racing At Talladega On Sunday?

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Both Mike and Kenny Wallace and Ken Schrader will attempt on Saturday to qualify for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AMP Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

Kenny will try to get the No. 00 Michael Waltrip-owned Champion Mortgage Toyota Camry in Sunday’s…

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07.23.2008 8:45 pm

If you can’t beat ‘em, get their horsepower changed!

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Forgive me, but I can’t imagine Major League Baseball pulling in the fences at midseason to “level the playing field.” Or the National Football League instituting a “two-Mississippi rushing rule” at midseason. Or the NBA moving the 3-point arc a…

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07.11.2008 12:24 am

Part IV: Countdown to Gateway, Harvick emerges

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Here’s the fourth installment of Gateway International Raceway’s countdown to the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 on July 19 at Gateway.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

A Star is Born at Gateway
By Josh Weinrich

The unique layout at Gateway International Raceway is one that challenges all…

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06.27.2008 10:51 pm

Bowyer and Biffle re-up, plus musings on Mears, Stewart

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Clint Bowyer and Greg Biffle, both in the Top 12, have signed deals to remain with their respective teams — Bowyer with Richard Childress Racing and Biffie with Roush Fenway.

Bully for both of ‘em, and bully for doin’ it mostly…

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