The number of lightning-related injuries and fatalities has been rising in recent weeks as stormy weather sweeps across the United States.
A lightning strike killed a NASCAR fan and injured nine others in a parking lot outside Pocono Raceway after torrential rains shortened Sunday's Pennsylvania 400, a track official said.
Brad Keselowski drove back into the Chase for the Championship at Pocono last week by winning despite a broken left ankle. Not that winning on an oval was easy, but the task of just remaining competent on the road course at Watkins Glen this weekend will be exponentially more difficult, according to veteran road racer Boris Said, who has coached and competed against more than 30 NASCAR drivers.
It was a snapshot of what Brad Keselowski can be and what Kurt Busch still cannot.
Jeff Gordon was back in the bright, multicolored paint scheme of longtime sponsor DuPont at Pocono Raceway. He looked like the Jeff Gordon of the past, too, running up front until taking the lead with 40 laps to go and pulling away in the familiar No. 24 Chevrolet to his second victory of the Sprint Cup season.
Nine years. 917 races. Zero deaths.
With five races left in NASCAR's regular season, the Sprint Cup circuit stops in Watkins Glen, N.Y. this Sunday for the second and final road course race of the season. The Glen has produced some riveting theatre in the last few years. Kevin Harvick and Juan Pablo Montoya nearly came to blows after wrecking in 2007; last year Jeff Gordon survived a scary head-on crash into a wall that wasn't lined with a SAFER barrier, much like Elliott Sadler's one-in-a-million wreck that he crawled away from -- barely -- last week at Pocono Raceway.
With five races left in NASCAR's regular season, the Sprint Cup circuit stops in Watkins Glen, N.Y. this Sunday for the second and final road course race of the season. The Glen has produced some riveting theatre in the last few years. Kevin Harvick and Juan Pablo Montoya nearly came to blows after wrecking in 2007; last year Jeff Gordon survived a scary head-on crash into a wall that wasn't lined with a SAFER barrier, much like Elliott Sadler's one-in-a-million wreck that he crawled away from -- barely -- last week at Pocono Raceway.
The first 100 laps at Pocono provided about as much action as bingo night at the senior center. The last 100? You got whisked straight from the boredom of hearing "B 12" to the excitement of a roller coaster on steroids.
The Pocono Raceway turns on its new 3-megawatt solar farm, the first sports facility in the U.S. to use solar energy.
Forget about Philadelphia -- Brandon Igdalsky hopes it's always sunny in the Poconos.
STEAM CORNERS, Ohio -- Scott Dixon has earned many nicknames during his highly-successful racing career such as "The Iceman" for his cool demeanor as well as 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar Series champion.
Carl Edwards was on top of the NASCAR world. Literally. This was late last January, and Edwards was flying his private jet over Lake Norman, N.C., the epicenter of planet NASCAR. Located just north of Charlotte, it's where more than 90 percent of the drivers, crewmen, owners and series officials live.
John McCain's wife hits triple digits while she takes to the track at the Pocono 500
Pattie Petty once told me something about her husband, Kyle. "My husband's not one of the greats," she said, "but he's one of the great individuals."
The political and sporting worlds collided Friday afternoon when CNN's sister publication, Sports Illustrated, reported that Sen. Barack Obama is considering sponsoring a car in a NASCAR race next month.
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