Who’s Hot/Who’s Not in NASCAR: Homestead-2011 Edition
Sad but true: the 2010 NASCAR racing season, for all intents and purposes, is over.
Sad but true: the 2010 NASCAR racing season, for all intents and purposes, is over.
In January, NASCAR’s Vice President of Competition, Robin Pemberton, uttered what would become one of the most quoted phrases of the year.
Here’s some rivalries that need to stay fresh for 2011, because bland and boring isn’t going to stop NASCAR’s TV ratings slide.
The championship was clearly all that mattered to ESPN on Sunday. Then again, you probably knew that was going to be the case going in.
67,000 – people in attendance for the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway
We were hoping that Denny Hamlin or Kevin Harvick would snatch up that Cup and provide something different for NASCAR Nation to chew on. It didn’t happen.
When Martin Truex Jr. fell off the pace at Homestead, Carl Edwards lost the only competition that could keep him honest and drove on to an easy win.
With the bubble points battle all but locked up, it was time for NASCAR teams to let it all hang out and end their 2010 campaigns on a high note.
It didn’t matter how long his winless streak was, Carl Edwards showed in his final two races that he could return to championship form next season.
What was supposed to be a watershed moment for the Joe Gibbs Racing organization this Sunday in south Florida became comeuppance of the nastiest kind.