Holding a Pretty Wheel: Life Is a Team Sport, But Is NASCAR?
We’ve all heard it: the winning driver in victory lane thanking his teammates, without whom he surely could not have prevailed. Well, OK, maybe not …
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Happy Hour: NASCAR & the “Citizen Journalist”
As most know, recently NASCAR renewed their efforts to connect with its most devoted fans with the initiation of the “NASCAR Citizen Journalist Media Corps.”
Matt McLaughlin Mouths Off: NASCAR Hall’In Class
I’ve gotten a lot of email from readers asking me which five people I hope, or think, will make up the first set of inductees …
Fanning the Flames: Jeremy Mayfield’s “Dangerous Precedent” May Serve to Benefit the Sport
Anyone see where former U.S. Figure Skating champion Nicole Bobek was charged in a New Jersey court with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine? (Anyone care?) Wonder …
Thompson in Turn 5: Blocking – It’s Just NASCAR Racing!
Following last Saturday night’s exciting final lap of the Coke Zero 400 from Daytona International Speedway, there has been a renewed call for NASCAR to …
Frontstretch Fantasy Insider: Cookie-Cuttering, Chicagoland Style
There are few, if any, tracks on the Sprint Cup circuit as sterile as the 1.5-mile Chicagoland Speedway. The epitome of a cookie-cutter oval, there …
What’s Vexing Vito: Daytona Destruction Slices & Dices Chase Field – Who Will Be In & Who Will Be out Come September?
Last Saturday’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona (July 4) could very well prove to be lynch pin in the 2009 Sprint Cup season for several …
Full Throttle: Daytona Struggles to Fill Half of Their Seats
Saturday night was a night race with strategically-placed camera angles, but every once in a while there was a shot that showed the backstretch grandstand …
Voice of Vito: Michael Waltrip, Motorsports Motormouth Finally Focusing Full-Time on Owner Role for 2010
While the majority of news media yesterday were trained on the Michael Jackson memorial, there was another announcement being made on the opposite side of …
Did You Notice? Truex Missed Teresa, Hall of Fame Snubs, Fan Tragedy Averted & Stewart’s Smelly Towel?
Did You Notice? With the Hall of Fame’s official selection of its top 25, debate’s now raging on which five will be picked to be …