Side by Side: Should Patrick Carpentier Have Been Fired?
Editor’s Note: The following is a special edition of Frontstretch‘s Side By Side. Occasionally throughout the season, two of your favorite Frontstretch writers will duke …
Cup Series
Fantasy Picks ‘N’ Pans: Picking the Best of Some Lowe’s Home Cookin’
The Chase is almost to the halfway point, and the haves and have nots among the Chase contenders are pretty well defined now. Fantasy gamers …
Did You Notice? Red Flag Means Work, Tires Need Work & No Work for Patrick Carpentier
Did You Notice? Officials appeared to be taking debris off certain cars on the track during the first red-flag period? I wasn’t at the track …
Thompson in Turn 5: Robby Gordon Continuing to Defy Conventional Wisdom
Not since the days of independent driver Dave Marcis, who through sheer determination managed to earn a living as a Cup driver and team owner, …
Top 10 Ways You Can Tell You’ve Just Been in the “Big One”
10. You’re pretty sure you weren’t carrying Tony Stewart’s wing behind your seat before. 9. You’re positive you didn’t start the race with your feet …
Mirror Driving: Kicking Talladega Out of the Chase, How Regan Lost the Race & Do DNFs Matter?
Welcome to Mirror Driving. Every week, your favorite columnists sit down and give their opinion about the latest NASCAR news and rumors. Love us or …
Frontstretch NASCAR Power Rankings: Top 15 After the 2008 Amp Energy 500 at Talladega
Blown tires, Big Ones, passes below the yellow line… Talladega had it all this fall. No question about it, the race routinely regarded as the …
Voice of Vito: Talladega Blights – Regan Smith Disenfranchised, Jimmie Johnson 1 Step Closer
I am going to forego the normal flowery introduction to this week’s column with a decidedly blunt statement: Regan Smith got screwed out of a …
Who’s Hot/Who’s Not in Sprint Cup: 2008 Amp Energy 500 at Talladega Edition
Talladega. It was the Chase wildcard; everybody knew it. The Big One. Who would be in it? Everybody tried to avoid it… but you knew …
Talking NASCAR TV: ESPN Not Detail Oriented in ‘Dega
A defining race like Sunday’s slugfest at Talladega Superspeedway is only as important to those viewing it as the network covering the broadcast allows it …