To say that Bristol Motor Speedway has not been kind to Tony Stewart would be putting it mildly. In 29 career Sprint Cup races at the World’s Fastest Half-Mile, Stewart has only 1 win and 8 top tens. This for a driver who has multiple championships and 47 total career wins. I think Tony could…
Read More »When we last saw NASCAR at Homestead, Florida, last November, Brad Keselowski was winning his first ever Sprint Cup championship. The back story, however, was all about the growing feud between Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon. Gordon, as you may recall, had intentionally wrecked Bowyer the previous week in Phoenix, resulting in a brawl between…
Read More »With this weekend’s festivities at Homestead, Florida, the NASCAR season came to an end. A season that had begun in February at Daytona finally concluded when the checkered flag was waved to conclude the Ford Ecoboost 400. But, not only did that checkered flag signal the conclusion of the race, it brought to an end…
Read More »Going into Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race, the Pure Michigan 400, there were 6 drivers fighting it out for, basically, the one remaining spot in NASCAR’s version of the playoffs—the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Hugely successful drivers like Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, and Carl Edwards are in the mix, and the fact is that…
Read More »In NASCAR garage areas, it is not uncommon to hear comments like, “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying” and “It’s our job to cheat and it’s their (NASCAR’s) job to catch us.” This weekend, as NASCAR’s top series headed to Kentucky for the Quaker State 400, we were reminded why it is so tempting…
Read More »This past Saturday night in Charlotte, NC, NASCAR’s best drivers got together for a race unlike anything else on the schedule for stock car racing’s best. It was a 90-lap, 135-mile race divided into 5 segments that had no bearing on the season-long points race for the Sprint Cup. It was a mad dash for…
Read More »After the trauma, blown schedules, fiery crashes, weather issues, and angst that was the Daytona 500, it seemed that everyone involved was absolutely worn out. Not only was the Great American Race postponed from Sunday, February 26, to Monday night, February 27, it was further delayed by Juan Pablo Montoya’s crash into one of the…
Read More »Once again, we have arrived at the happiest time of the year for NASCAR fans—Speedweeks at Daytona. Last weekend, the engines began to roar and the Shootout was thrilling. Sunday was qualifying for the Daytona 500, and tomorrow the Gatorade Duels will set the starting grid. It has been a great start to the season,…
Read More »Next month, Speedweeks will crank up once again and Daytona will come alive with the roar of engines as NASCAR launches a new season of stock car racing. Having followed NASCAR a bit in recent years, I am continually amazed at how many people it takes to keep a car competing at motor racing’s highest…
Read More »On Sunday afternoon, as I awaited the start of the final NASCAR race of the season, it occurred to me how strange things were about to become in stock car racing’s top series. No matter who won the race at Homestead, Florida, NASCAR would have a new champion for the first time in half a…
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