Mirror Driving: Championship Favorites, Young Talent & “Chasing” Road Courses
With his fourth win of the year, does Kyle Busch become the title favorite, or does that moniker still belong to Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson or someone else?
With his fourth win of the year, does Kyle Busch become the title favorite, or does that moniker still belong to Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson or someone else?
2011 has been a disappointing season for Greg Biffle, but it looked like this week would signal a turnaround when Biffle grabbed the pole on Friday.
It’s called Silly Season and it’s more important now than ever before.
One thing I was really focused in on was making sure that when we go back to a track the second time, that my team would be better.
Does the Watkins Glen track need a major safety overhaul?
After a dominating day, it was Kyle Busch’s own mistake on a green-white-checkered restart that cost him the win at the Glen.
The Chase was contrived before. With the addition of the wildcard, it’s contrived and cheap.
Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson got into it at Pocono, rekindling the flames on their old rivalry. Who came out with an edge
Joey Logano was so close to victory he could smell it, and it smelled a lot like rain on a humid summer day. Unfortunately for Logano, who had grabbed his third career pole on Saturday, the rains let up, the race ran its complete distance, and the third-year driver faded to a disappointing 26th. For Logano, who is breathing a sigh of relief now that Edwards is no longer a threat for his ride, Silly Season isn’t quite over until other potential replacements like Clint Bowyer, Brian Vickers and Mark Martin have contracts somewhere else. Good finishes still have extra importance for the No. 20 right now.
Racing is a sport of emotion. Passion runs deep, emotion often runs deeper, feelings get hurt, egos get bruised. That’s as old as the sport, and hopefully it will never change.
However, there is a fine line between racing passionately and racing without scruples. It’s a line that drivers will sometimes cross unintentionally in the heat of battle, and when they apologize and move on, can occasionally be forgiven for. But it seems like that line is being crossed quite often lately, without remorse or consequence. And NASCAR not only allows it, it seems that at times, when it suits their purposes, they condone it.
The line has a name. It’s called sportsmanship.