Bubble Breakdown: Penalties Have Crippled Haas CNC… While Saving Michael Waltrip Racing
The big story from the bubble this week has been the heavy penalties handed down by NASCAR to the Haas CNC Racing teams. Both cars …
Cup Series
Sprint Cup Rookie Report: Sam Hornish Jr. Continues Momentum at the Monster Mile
Rookies in the Starting Lineup: Sam Hornish Jr. (16th), Regan Smith (29th), Michael McDowell (32nd), Patrick Carpentier (36th) Unofficial Finishing Positions: Hornish (18th), Smith (21st), Carpentier …
Bowles-Eye View: For 2 NASCAR Champs, a Little Game of Perception Versus Reality
Coming off of Dover, the latest NASCAR buzz continued to center around the budding Kyle Busch – Carl Edwards rivalry – and rightfully so. Finishing …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: It’s Not All Dale Earnhardt Jr. All the Time
I was reading through some old (and not-so-old) racing columns and found one that I wrote last year that got me thinking. Actually, it was …
Happy Hour: NASCAR’s Rule Enforcement Problem
Haas CNC Racing is the latest student to be schooled in NASCAR Rule Enforcement. They committed the cardinal sin of tinkering with the CoT and …
Matt McLaughlin Mouths Off: Revisiting Major NASCAR Storylines of 2008
With the adoption of the 36-race Cup schedule some years back, the World 600 now ends the first of three 12-race segments that make up …
Voices From the Heartland: Brian France Speaks Again & Adds to Global Warming!
You readers out there that peruse this column regularly know that I just love writing about NASCAR CEO Brian France. Why? Because he is soooo …
Fantasy Picks ‘N’ Pans: Can Truex Repeat For Your Team, or Will Cousin Carl Continue to Own the Monster?
Dover International Speedway is one of the toughest tracks on the schedule, a concrete bullring with very tricky transitions on and off of the straightaways. …
Fanning the Flames: Dancing Drivers, Loose Lugs &… Eliot Spitzer?
No time for an intro this week; you’ve given me so much feedback, it’s time to get right down to it. Still have questions, comments, …
Thompson in Turn 5: Kyle Busch vs. Dale Earnhardt Jr. – Junior is Still the Better Deal
There is no end in sight to the comparisons between the racing careers of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch, the driver he replaced this …