Flashback: Bill Elliott’s Superspeedway Win at Michigan

By Keith Waltz Bill Elliott, a 28-year-old racer from Dawsonville, Georgia, scored his first NASCAR superspeedway victory on June 17, 1984, when he won the Miller High Life 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Elliott, who started from the pole in the No. 9 Coors Ford, took the lead from Geoff Bodine on a lap 194 restart and beat Dale Earnhardt to the checkered flag by two seconds in front of a reported record crowd of 64,000. “I hated to see that last caution come out because I knew there were a lot of cars that were running awfully good,” Elliott said in…

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Michigan Preview: ‘The Outlaw’ Could Win Another

By Jared Turner Prior to Kurt Busch winning Monday’s rescheduled and rain-delayed race at Pocono Raceway, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver had experienced a fairly quiet and uneventful season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. But after going to Victory Lane and punching his ticket to the 2016 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Busch is suddenly the talk of the town. That’s because in addition to being the Sprint Cup Series’ most recent winner, he enters Sunday’s FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway as the defending race winner of the June event at MIS, where he owns a total of three…

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Just Sayin’: It Always Rains at Pocono Raceway

By Jared Turner Doesn’t it always rain at Pocono? With all due respect to Pocono Raceway, there’s no track more undeserving of two annual Sprint Cup dates than the so-called “Tricky Triangle.” Aside from the fact that races at Pocono tend to be among the most humdrum on the schedule, there’s also the harsh reality that rain seems to be a factor virtually every time NASCAR visits the 2.5-mile track. This past weekend was no different from the norm as wet weather hampered the proceedings on Friday and Saturday and then on Sunday forced the first postponement of the 2016 Sprint Cup…

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NASCAR Pole Position Michigan Edition Now Available

NASCAR Pole Position Michigan edition is now available. Please head to Walmart, or other area retailers that offer free magazines, to pick up your free copy. You can find a list of preferred retailers distributing NASCAR Pole Position here. Magazines were shipped to area Walmarts that feature Tire & Lube Express departments. Be sure to tell them NASCAR Pole Position sent you! And remember the magazine is free for all race fans! If you are not in the race market, you can get a subscription to NASCAR Pole Position here right now. WANT A FREE WEEKLY NASCAR MAGAZINE? ROAR! is a digitally-delivered, weekly magazine that reviews the week…

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