Friday Faceoff: Safety in the Pits, Silly Season Dominoes & Truckin’ Trouble
Sunday’s race at Pocono included a nasty crash where Kasey Kahne spun off turn 3 and slid into the pits, hitting the wall so hard …
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Beside the Rising Tide: Summertime Blues
It’s summertime and the living is easy. As per normal, news from the racing circuit has hit a low ebb as folks busy themselves with …
Friday Faceoff: What’s Up with Hendrick Motorsports?
1. NASCAR ran its second new rules package in three weeks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Does the high-drag package hold promise, or is it time …
Beside the Rising Tide: The Kyle Busch Rule
You’d think Kyle Busch would have been too busy celebrating this weekend. But in a mind numbing case of biting the hand that feeds him, …
Friday Faceoff: What Is the Debris Caution Standard?
1) Some say the luster for Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been lost in recent years. Where would you rank the race in terms of prestige …
Beside the Rising Tide: Real Feel Meltdown
I’ll offer some quick thoughts this week as the mercury flirts with triple digits here at Eyesore Acres and the “real-feel” number is a balmy …
Beside The Rising Tide: Remembering Davey Allison – Part 2
Editor’s Note: For Part One of Matt’s retrospective on Davey Allison, click “here.”:https://frontstretch.com/mmclaughlin/34578/
Robert Yates Racing and the team’s talented young driver Davey Allison made their official debut at the 1989 Daytona 500. Things got off to an inauspicious start. Davey was running well when Geoff Bodine got into his rear bumper and sent the No. 28 car spinning. The car rolled, but came down on all four wheels, and Allison limped off to the pits, where the crew was able to repair the car well enough to get him back out there for points. Allison finished 25th in that year’s race.
Beside the Rising Tide: Autumn’s Closing In
A funny thing happened Saturday night at Kentucky (a bunch of not-so-funny things happened at Kentucky leading up to the race, but we’ll get to …
Friday Faceoff: Evaluating Rules, Wreckage & Chase Heading To Kentucky
Welcome to Friday Faceoff, our weekly NASCAR roundtable where the Frontstretch experts give their take on major storylines surrounding the sport. Here’s a few major …
Beside the Rising Tide: Looks Like Rain
Naturally the big headline in the aftermath of Sunday night’s (or was it Monday morning’s?) race wasn’t so much the fact Dale Earnhardt Jr. won …