With the 25th running of the All-Star Race coming up Saturday night, I was supposed to write a column about memorable All-Star races… or something …
Every once in a while, something happens that puts things in perspective. Something that reminds you why you’re here in the first place. It’s not …
I think it’s one of Murphy’s Laws (Murphy, I never knew you, but you were one hell of a pessimist, huh?) that just when you …
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 …
I genuinely like Jamie McMurray. He’s a hard guy not to like. But, from a performance standpoint – well, the writing has been on the wall for a long time.
NASCAR recently announced that the sanctioning body would now conduct postrace engine teardowns at their Concord facility, the latest in a series of measures designed …
The 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season rolls into April, and while nothing is carved in the sand, let alone stone, things are starting to become …
At the top level of NASCAR, there are so many factors to consider every week. There are sponsors to please, fans to appease, and an …
There’s procrastinating and then there’s procrastinating. Your average everyday procrastinating is generally no big deal. So you take out the trash tomorrow and wash the …
Racing, like other sports, is built on heroes. Most of NASCAR’s heroes are the men and women who, over the years, pulled on their colorful, if not dashing firesuits, climbed into a snarling beast of a machine, and drove straight into the sunset (and back out, as they came off the next turn). They court danger and flirt with mayhem, run with the stuff of dreams. Yes, racecar drivers are the stuff of legend. But not all heroes drive the cars. Some make the cars go fast instead.