Founded in 1969 by NASCAR Hall of Fame owner Richard Childress, Richard Childress Racing has accumulated a total of 17 championships and more than 200 victories across NASCAR’s top three series and was the first team in NASCAR history to win championships across all three national series.
On a night that celebrated seven decades of NASCAR competition, Brad Keselowski put on a truly vintage performance worthy of the history books at Darlington Raceway.
If the word excellence was in a NASCAR dictionary, it’s likely that Jimmie Johnson’s portrait and unmistakable No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet Camaro would appear alongside the definition. For the past 16 years, the native of El Cajon, Calif. has blazed his own trail as one of NASCAR’s top racers in nearly meteoric fashion.
After every Bristol Motor Speedway race, it’s rare to see a car that doesn’t sport the concrete beast’s badges of honor. At the end of the Bass Pro Shops NRA night race, Kurt Busch’s No. 41 Monster Energy/HAAS Automation Ford Fusion also wasn’t in showroom condition, but it got the job done.