Shane van Gisbergen seeks to win his fifth consecutive Cup road course race Sunday at the Charlotte Roval. That would put him one behind Jeff Gordon for most consecutive road course victories in series history. Sunday’s race also will cut the playoff field from 12 to eight. Three-time Cup champion Joey Logano, who won last year’s title, holds the final …
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With solo drivers kicked out of California carpool lanes, how bad will traffic get for rest of us?
A new era in commuting begins today for clean-air vehicles with new rules that kick solo drivers out of California carpool lanes and uncertainty over how it will impact commute times and traffic. As of Aug. 14, more than half a million motorists statewide had an active decal on their vehicle to access carpool lanes. California has an estimated 1,171 …
Read More »Pipe bomb found at apartment complex along I-10 on Northwest Side; drivers asked to avoid the area
SAN ANTONIO – A live pipe bomb was found at an apartment complex Tuesday morning along Interstate 10 on the Northwest Side. San Antonio police Sgt. Travis Gourley said a maintenance worker found the suspicious device before 9 a.m. in a grassy area at the apartment complex, located in the 10700 block of I-10 westbound near Huebner Road. The employee …
Read More »Amazon’s redesigned Echo Studio speaker has upgraded drivers and a new chip for Alexa
When it comes to new Echo speakers, Amazon rarely shows something that will appeal to customers who crave premium sound quality. The last time it did, it debuted the Echo Studio, which could handle immersive Dolby Atmos and double as a home theater speaker. At its hardware event in NYC today, Amazon unveiled an updated Echo Studio with new drivers, …
Read More »What Drivers Said after Cup win by Chase Elliott at Kansas Speedway
Chase Elliott — winner: “Everything worked out perfect for me. Had a great push through one and two. That kind of all started with the 6. Big run off of two. Seas kind of parted and just was able to keep my momentum up. That was really it. Obviously, we still had pretty good tires compared to those guys, but …
Read More »Denny Hamlin Admits He ‘Went too Far’ at Loudon after JGR Drivers’ Meeting
Bob Pockrass FOX Motorsports Insider KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Denny Hamlin admits he went a little too far with the way he raced Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs last Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. How all the Joe Gibbs Racing drivers race each other going forward was the subject of a driver meeting Wednesday with JGR leadership, which …
Read More »Truck drivers from outside the US face new license restrictions as DOT threatens to withhold money from California
The Department of Transportation is imposing new limits to “drastically restrict” people from outside the United States from getting commercial driver’s licenses, and is threatening to withhold highway funds from states that don’t agree to comply. “The process for issuing these licenses is absolutely, 100%, broken,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday in a news conference. “It has become a …
Read More »What drivers said at New Hampshire after Cup playoff race won by Ryan Blaney
Ryan Blaney — winner: “Yeah, probably the hardest 20 laps that I drove. I was trying to kind of bide my stuff and kind of pull Josh a little bit. And then he really started coming. I started to get super free. And it was all I could do to hold him off and try new lanes. And that was …
Read More »Mudslides trap drivers in parts of Southern California
YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) — Sudden heavy rain east of Los Angeles unleashed mudslides that plowed into homes and trapped drivers for hours on roadways while floodwaters swept away a vehicle carrying a father who was later rescued and his-2-year-old son who drowned, authorities said Friday. Authorities rescued 10 people traveling in at least six vehicles who were stranded on state …
Read More »What drivers said at Bristol after Cup win by Christopher Bell
Christopher Bell — winner: “Well, I’ll tell you what, I was nervous on the choose. I didn’t know if I wanted to be on the bottom or the top, and whenever Brad picked the top they really didn’t give me an option and had to pick the bottom. And all night long, I don’t know, old tires just really, really …
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