Eddie Gossage, the former president of Texas Motor Speedway, has died. He was 65.Speedway Motorsports shared the news Thursday night on behalf of the Gossage family.“Today, we have lost one of the world’s biggest race fans,” said Speedway Motorsports President and CEO Marcus Smith. “From his legendary promotions to the...

It’s the end of an era for Eddie Gossage and Texas Motor Speedway.The only president in the track’s history, Gossage has been a forward-thinking showman that, at times, has been perceived as over-the-top and bombastic. However, the proof of his influence is in the legacy he's created since TMS broke...

Eddie Gossage will step down as the president of Texas Motor Speedway after the NASCAR All-Star Race at the track next month.Bruton Smith named Gossage the general manager of Texas Motor Speedway in 1995, and added president to his resume in 2004. Gossage joined Speedway Motorsports in 1989 as the...

There is no argument that Roger Penske saved the farm, the season, IndyCar and the Indianapolis 500 with his commitment, checkbook and clairvoyance in the year of the pandemic.But without Road America, Gateway and Mid-Ohio, the series may well have been Texas, the Indy 500 and 10 races on the...

The topic of a potential doubleheader weekend featuring the NTT IndyCar Series and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series keeps coming up and one veteran who's tasted plenty of success in both camps -- Tony Stewart -- says he'd be all for it.Stewart retired from full-time driving duties at the...

Circuit of The Americas chairman Bobby Epstein believes that the arrival of a second IndyCar race in Texas might also deliver a boost to Texas Motor Speedway, even if he admits that it took time for the latter to embrace the idea of IndyCar visiting Austin.Texas Motor Speedway has largely...

In the words of Kevin Harvick, the racing Sunday on the repaved Texas Motor Speedway "was better than it could have been."To be honest, yours truly entered the day thinking the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was going be a snoozefest, or maybe even a wreckfest after practice and qualifying made...

Track owners have thrown their support behind the race format changes unveiled by NASCAR earlier today. Under the new format, each race in 2017 will feature three stages, with the first two awarding points to the top 10, and the third awarding points to the entire field. The overall race...

IndyCar opted to go back to Texas Motor Speedway in August for one reason: the patient people who hung in there last Saturday night."We could have tried to run today (Monday) or tomorrow and got to the halfway mark in front of nobody or we could come back and put...

Verizon IndyCar Series teams unanimously backed the decision to suspend the Texas Motor Speedway race for two and a half months after a rain delay, says track president Eddie Gossage.The event was scheduled to run last Saturday night but was postponed by rain to Sunday afternoon, when it had to...