2006-12-04 2006 Memories from the GM Racing Team
GM Racing program managers and executives speak about their favorite experiences of the 2006 season ...
2006-12-04 2006 Memories from the GM Racing Team
GM Racing executives and program managers share their favorite experiences of the season ...
2006-12-04 Chevy Day Proves Business Benefits of Racing
It's one thing to attend a NASCAR race and sit in the grandstand ? it's another world for the average fan to see the race track through a windshield. ...
2006-11-21 Subplots Highlight Johnson's Championship
The story everyone in racing knows is that Monte Carlo SS driver Jimmie Johnson won the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship Sunday night. But other story plots leading up to that moment provide a unique review of the championship ...
2006-11-21 GM Rookie Success Points to Future
Racing is mostly about the here and now. But the season-ending NASCAR Nextel Cup race in Miami gave Chevy reason to be very optimistic about the future as well. Monte Carlo SS driver Denny Hamlin finished third in the race and more importantly third in the Nextel Cup championship, easily winning Rookie of the Year honors. He won two races during the season (both at Pocono) and ran strong on a consistent basis, especially for his first full season. ...
2006-11-14 Carmichael Jumps From Two Wheels to Four
Ricky Carmichael has traded in his astounding, record 144-win two-wheel career for a roll cage and twice the tire count ? making the switch from Supercross motorcycle competition to becoming the latest stock car development driver for MB2 Motorsports, which runs Chevrolet products in multiple NASCAR series. ...
2006-11-07 Monte Carlo SS Rookies Set Groundwork for Future
Chevy's crop of rookies in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series have been exceptional this year, showing talent and professionalism that has resulted in one of them making the Chase for the Nextel Cup ...
2006-10-31 Terry Labonte Runs His Final Cup Race
Terry Labonte will enter the final race of his 28-year career in NASCAR's top series this weekend. The two-time Cup champion has racked up an impressive stats sheet for the Bowtie and teammates and engineers who have worked with him all agree he will be missed ...
2006-10-24 From NASCAR to Drag Racing, Line's in Line for NHRA Championship
Jason Line is in prime position to earn the 2006 NHRA POWERade Pro Stock championship ? yet many don?t know he came straight from NASCAR just a few short years ago. ...
2006-10-17 Jumping from Formula One to NASCAR
Behind the headlines announcing that ex-F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya would join NASCAR's Nextel Cup series and Jacques Villeneuve's indication he?d like to switch to stock cars is that while both of these drivers were still racing in F1, former Cosworth chief engine designer Nick Hayes had already made the switch. ...
2006-10-17 GM Racing Director Makes RACER's Powerful and Influential List for Second Straight Year
Mark Kent, director of GM Racing, was named one of RACER magazine's 24 powerful and influential individuals in the motorsports industry. Kent joins the ranks of the France family, Chevrolet driver and 2005 Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart, IRL founder Tony George and prominent people in today's auto racing community who help make the sport exhilarating, relevant, safe and entertaining. ...
2006-09-19 Chevrolet Monte Carlo - Setting Records from the Beginning
With Kevin Harvick's win at Loudon, Chevy celebrates the Monte Carlo's 400th win and 30th Manufacturer's Cup championship. See how it began over thirty years ago ...
2006-08-01 Papis to Pilot a Chevrolet in NASCAR Debut at Watkins Glen
After scoring podium finishes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, racing his Corvette to victory in the American Le Mans Series and capturing GT class wins for Cadillac in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge Series, Max Papis will soon have something new to add to his GM racing portfolio as the European sports car ace prepares to make his NASCAR debut at Watkins Glen. ...
2006-07-18 Pontiac-Powered Daytona Prototype Tours United States
Most race car builders use serial numbers to identify their cars but at Crawford Race Cars, LLC they have a different approach to identifying the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series race cars they manufacture. Their show car that tours the U.S. has a name ...
2006-06-27 GM Road Racing Specialists Looking Forward to IROC Race in Daytona
The Crown Royal International Race of Champions (IROC) Series will race on a road course for the first time in 14 years on Thursday night and two GM drivers are thrilled. The third round of the four-race series will take place on Daytona International Speedway's 3.56-mile road course, a place where both Max Angelelli and Tony Stewart have plenty of experience. ...
2006-06-20 Sell on Monday (or Tuesday)?
A deep tradition in automotive manufacturers' involvement in racing has revolved around the phrase ?Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday.? GM Racing Director Mark Kent and NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick have recently commented on the topic, and both agree there are multiple benefits for manufactures to race. ...
2006-06-20 Chevrolet Takes 300th Victory in the NASCAR Busch Series
When David Gilliland took the checkered flag on Saturday to win the Meijer 300 and score his first NASCAR Busch Series win, he also helped Chevrolet achieve a major milestone of its own. Gilliland's win gave Chevrolet its 300th victory in the 25-year history of NASCAR's Busch ...
2006-06-20 GM Racing Programs Hit Home With Events At Mid-Ohio
GM employees and enthusiasts will flock to the 2.258-mile road course to see Pontiac Motorsports and GM Performance Division compete in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series' EMCO Gears Classic and Grand-Am Cup races this weekend. ...
2006-05-16 GM Racing Global Update
With seasons now well underway, GM racing teams across the globe have had successes in the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), TC2000 of Argentina and Australian V-8 Supercar Championship Series. ...
2006-05-02 Chevy Day Visits Richmond
Chevrolet will host an opportunity for race fans to participate in an exclusive fan experience at Richmond International Raceway (RIR) on Thursday, May 4. Race fans that take a test drive at a Richmond Chevy dealer will have the opportunity to get autographs from Chevy race car drivers, receive a hot lap on the RIR track and get their picture taken with a Chevy race car. ...
2006-04-18 Brock Lines Up in Daytona Coupe for 15th Anniversary Targa Tasmania
Unable to resist the temptation to return to the steering wheel of a high performance machine, nine-time Bathurst champion Peter Brock will line up in this year's 15th anniversary Targa Tasmania tarmac rally on April 25 to 30. ...
2006-04-18 Chevy Racing Partners with Cure Autism Now to Raise Awareness in April
As part of an extensive national partnership between General Motors Corp. (GM) and Cure Autism Now (CAN), Chevy Racing is sponsoring the organization by raising funds and awareness at NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series' races during April, Autism Awareness Month. ...
2006-03-28 American Idol Star Visits Chevy Team
?American Idol? star Bo Bice and his band, Sugarland Money, stopped in to Dale Earnhardt, Inc. last week to check out where their favorite race team builds the Chevy Monte Carlo Ss' for their favorite drivers. They were en route to a gig in Spartanburg, SC. ...
2006-03-28 GM Success also Found in Grassroots Racing
While reaching the highest professional levels of racing is the reward, grassroots racing is the heart and soul of American motorsports' and in SCCA National Road Racing, many GM vehicles have had an excellent first quarter in 2006. ...
2006-03-28 GM Teams Have Earned All Five Pit Crew Challenges in 2006
For the second week in a row, Tony Stewart's pit crew secured the Checkers/Rally's Double Drive-Thru Challenge competition by spending the least amount of time (206.844 seconds) on pit road in Sunday's NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Chevy Monte Carlo SS teams have won the award every week this season ? Jimmie Johnson's team at Daytona and California, followed by Kyle Busch's team at Las Vegas. ...
2006-03-21 One Goal for Holden in 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series
The goal of returning Holden to the status of V8 Supercar champions begins this weekend at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide and, with minimal disruptions or movements during the off-season; the General's teams are well placed to mount an assault that will reassume the #1 plate for the "red" side. ...
2006-03-14 Deadline to Win Tony's Tahoe Approaches
Time is running out for fans to enter a Chevrolet contest to win a special 2007 Chevy Tahoe built by NASCAR Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart. During the off season, Stewart went to work at the General Motors' Arlington, Texas assembly plant to build a Chevy Tahoe while helping to kick-off the production of the new vehicle. ...
2006-02-21 Kouba-Dominick Wins PR Rep of the Year Award
Judy Kouba-Dominick has won NASCAR's PR Rep of the Year Award for her public relations work for General Motors last year in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Kouba-Dominick, a trackside communications manager working for GM, received the award at the NASCAR PR Summit at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 14. ...
2006-01-31 WTCC also Stands for Winter Training Camp Chevrolet
A recent winter retreat in the Swiss Alps for Chevrolet's WTCC drivers provided a refreshing respite before tackling the 2006 testing season. After a three-hour season kick off go-karting competition set up by WTCC tire supplier Yokohama ? won by the Chevy team of Rob Huff, Nicola Larini and Alain Menu and their respective race engineers' the same drivers and a few local media went to a chalet for the weekend for some unique downtime. ...
2006-01-31 Jimmie Johnson Races Into "Las Vegas"
Jimmie Johnson will make a primetime guest appearance on the February 6 episode of NBC's "Las Vegas" (9-10 p.m. ET). In the episode, entitled "Urban Legends," Johnson, appearing as himself, is invited to the Montecito Casino to judge a Chevy Custom Car Show taking place at the casino. A number of custom Chevys will be on display in the episode. ...
2006-01-26 Shell ROTELLA®T Will Sponsor Chevy Silverado in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
DETROIT- Shell ROTELLA T will be the primary sponsor of the Morgan-Dollar Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado, driven by Dennis Setzer, during seven NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) races in 2006. Shell will be an associate sponsor for the other 18 events...... ...
2006-01-24 Chevy Silverado Wins Score Category at Dakar
With 2006 barely three weeks old, General Motors got a good jump start in the season by supporting two entries in what is considered to be the most grueling off-road race in the world - the Dakar Rally. The result was a win in the Open Score Category and some lessons learned for future endurance races. ...