Superspeedway racing used to be a simple equation: more horsepower, more bravery, more speed. Today, the spectacle is still wild, but the way drivers race at Daytona and Talladega has been ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — It’s the end of the NASCAR restrictor plate world as we know it. Sunday’s Daytona 500 marks the end of an era in modern NASCAR. Over 30 years after restrictor plates were put ...

If nothing else, racing’s restrictor-plate era – which ends with Sunday’s Daytona 500 – has given the world a few colorful quotations. Restricting speed in any way was particularly irksome to the late ...