The Big 6: Questions Answered After the 2010 Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville
It was Martinsville, so almost nobody goes home with a clean racecar, but Kurt Busch drove like the Kurt Busch of his truck days for a lap or so on Sunday.
It was Martinsville, so almost nobody goes home with a clean racecar, but Kurt Busch drove like the Kurt Busch of his truck days for a lap or so on Sunday.
It wasn’t a win, but it must have felt like one to Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose fourth-place Sylvania 300 finish was just his third top five of the season
There were a trio of surprise names in the Air Guard 400 top 10, with Joey Logano, Marcos Ambrose and AJ Allmendinger all having stellar nights.
Jimmie Johnson took home a third place at Atlanta, and while that’s not something he needs to write home about, it’s his best finish since he won in June.
The drivers introduced themselves at Bristol and Brad Keselowski, apparently still steamed at Kyle Busch for dumping him in the Nationwide race, made his count.
The No. 19 team’s future is in doubt without sponsorship for the 2011 season, so running the way they did at Michigan had to be a real pick-me-up.
After settling his 2011 plans earlier this week, Allmendinger thanked his Richard Petty Motorsports team with a fourth-place finish at Watkins Glen.
Tony Stewart finished second to Greg Biffle at Pocono for his third runner-up finish of 2010.
Sunday, Jamie McMurray became the third driver to win the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same season, handing Ganassi an owner’s trifecta.
Since Robby Gordon already got recognition for his bonehead move, the one left to hum this tune after Chicago was Martin Truex Jr.