Bubble Breakdown: Part-Timer Wins at Talladega While Top-30 Teams Turn in Top 15s
Talladega Superspeedway was the setting this week for the running of the Aaron’s 499. Bubble teams kicked up a little pre-race news as Sam Hornish …
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Brad Keselowski Wins 2009 Aaron’s 499 at Talladega
Talladega had an unlikely hero on Sunday. Brad Keselowski braved a block from Carl Edwards, whose car went airborne and across Ryan Newman‘s car, to …
The Big 6: Questions Answered After the 2009 Aaron’s 499 at Talladega
Who… gets my shoutout of the race? Most readers know I never give this one to the race winner, because he gets enough shoutouts, but …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: The Monster Jeff Gordon Created is Guarding the Door
You know you’re on a roll when, seven races into the season, you hold a points lead so large that you could finish dead last …
Happy Hour: Is NASCAR Seeing What’s Happening?
Long ago as a young lad, I worked for a department store you may have heard of called Caldor. I wasn’t the best employee – …
Fanning the Flames: When the Story About the Story Becomes THE Story
Q: Why did NASCAR penalize Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Casey Mears for their actions at Phoenix? I thought NASCAR wanted emotion… isn’t that what Brian said last year? I could maybe understand a penalty if Junior spun Mears during green and caused a big wreck, but on the cool-down lap?
Thompson in Turn 5: Ratings May Have Been Down, but PIR Left Little to Complain About
In most ways, Saturday’s running of the Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix was counter to most of the more popular criticisms routinely leveled at NASCAR.
Frontstretch Fantasy Insider: Picking the ‘Dega Drafting Lane That’s Moving Forward
The fantasy wildcard weekend that is Talladega looms on the horizon. The Big One, which happens more times than not, can take out a player’s …
Crew Swaps Treat Symptoms, Not Disease, for Nos. 07, 29 Teams
After a thoroughly disappointing start to 2009 for the No. 07 and No. 29 teams, two operations that secured Chase berths in 2008, news broke …
Did You Notice? Restrictor Plate 1-Hit Wonders & the New Precedent of “Probation”
Did You Notice? Just probation for Casey Mears and Dale Earnhardt Jr.? Did you really expect the sanctioning body to do anything more after their …