Stewart-Haas Racing announced Wednesday that it would move from Chevrolet to Ford beginning with the 2017 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The four-car team – presently comprised of drivers Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, Danica Patrick and Tony Stewart – will compete with horsepower from Roush Yates Engines. S-H-R has campaigned Chevrolets since it was founded in 2009. The organization has thirty wins over the past seven seasons. Stewart won his third championship, as an owner-driver, in 2011 and Harvick followed with another title three years later.
NASCAR has announced the twenty nominees who will be eligible for the 2017 Hall of Fame Class including five whose names appear on the ballot for the first time: Cup Series driver Ricky Rudd, team owner Jack Roush, four-time Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday, master engine builder Waddell Wilson and former Motor Racing Network announcer Ken Squier. The list includes fifteen holdovers from the 2016 ballot led by Cup drivers Buddy Baker, Mark Martin, 1992 champion Alan Kulwicki and 1973 champ Benny Parsons.
