Dale Jr.’s Luck Appears to Be Changing

By Jared Turner In a season where Dale Earnhardt Jr. has at times seemed to have a target on his back, the past two weekends have provided a nice respite from the misfortune. As with the previous weekend’s race at Talladega where he managed to narrowly avoid at least three multi-car wrecks, Earnhardt steered clear of a melee at Kansas that eliminated several contenders. And, for the second race in a row and the third time in four weekends, he finished a solid seventh. “It’s all luck,” said NASCAR’s 14-time most popular driver. “A lot of times if you just run the…

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Martinsville Edition Now Available

NASCAR Pole Position Martinsville 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 Auto Care Centers. 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 right here, right now. WANT A FREE WEEKLY NASCAR MAGAZINE DELIVERED TO YOUR EMAIL? ROAR! is a digitally-delivered, twice-weekly magazine…

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Truex rallies for Kansas win, as Playoff field is trimmed to eight

October 22, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Martin Truex Jr. survived a restart penalty and an unscheduled pit stop to return to what has become a thoroughly familiar locale—Victory Lane—in Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. In a dramatic race that brought Truex his seventh Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win of the season, calamity eliminated four drivers from the series Playoff. Jamie McMurray, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Matt Kenseth and Kyle Larson all saw their postseason hopes end with the final event in the Round of 12. The shocker was Larson, who fell out of…

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Christopher Bell gets first NASCAR XFINITY Series win at Kansas

October 21, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 may have been the opening race in the Round of 8 of the NASCAR XFINITY Series Playoff, but the real drama involved two Joe Gibbs Racing teammates outside the championship battle. On Lap 197 of 200 at Kansas Speedway, Christopher Bell caught and passed Erik Jones for the lead, clearing Jones’ No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota with a slide job and drifting up to the outside wall right in front of his JGR teammate. Under a full head of steam, Jones plowed into the…

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Crew Member Profile: Wood Brothers Racing Shop Foreman Eric Ralph

By Ben White Eric Ralph, shop foreman for Wood Brothers Racing and driver Ryan Blaney, experienced his first NASCAR race at Nashville Speedway while following one of his local heroes that became a stock car legend. “That was in the late 1980s with my family at the Nashville Fairgrounds,” Ralph said. “I’m from southern Indiana so I was a fan of Darrell Waltrip. He was always one of the ones that did so well there. “We had a small local track (in Indiana) and my Dad sponsored a dirt late model driver. We followed NASCAR growing up, and a lot of friends…

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