LONG BEFORE RICHARD PETTY WAS NICKNAMED “THE KING” OF STOCK CAR RACING, his cars were built in a dirt-floor building that might remind some of the barn depicted in “Days of Thunder,” a barn that still stands in Mooresville, N.C. But those days are long past. These days a NASCAR Sprint Cup car is crafted […]
Clint Bowyer Wins Toyota / Save Mart 350
Photo Donna Beth Weilenman/staff Clint Bowyer stands on the driver’s side window of the No. 15 Toyota Sunday after winning the Toyota / Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. It was his first victory on the road course. Vallejo native Jeff Gordon, coming back from a delay when he ran out of gas near pit […]