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5 Points To Ponder: What’s Wrong with Hard Racing, Anyway?

September 29, 2025September 29, 2025 by Brad Harrison

Don’t we want everyone racing at 100% and not abiding by team orders or whatever the unspoken agreement on track tends to be called?

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Brad Harrison, Cup Series, Featured Content

5 Points to Ponder: Can You Win a NASCAR Championship While Feuding With a Teammate?

September 22, 2025 by Nick Tylwalk
Nascar Cup Series drivers Denny Hamlin Ty Gibbs, NKP

Also, is the Penske gang now the championship favorite?

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Cup Series, Featured Content, Nick Tylwalk

5 Points To Ponder: Has the Next Gen Car Killed the Bump and Run?

September 14, 2025 by Brad Harrison
#41: Cole Custer, Haas Factory Team, HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang, #88: Shane Van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing, Wendy’s Breakfast Baconator Chevrolet, #1: Ross Chastain, Trackhouse Racing, Moose Fraternity Chevrolet, and #60: Ryan Preece, RFK Racing, Kroger / SToK Ford Mustang

Brad Keselowski’s last-lap bump and run attempt did not phase Christopher Bell’s car. That’s a problem.

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Brad Harrison, Cup Series, Featured Content, News

5 Points to Ponder: Can Christopher Bell Recapture the Magic?

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025 by Brad Harrison
NASCAR Cup Series Darlington Southern 500- Christopher Bell

While Joe Gibbs Racing has won the first two races in the Round of 16, Hendrick Motorsports got much-needed solid results at Gateway.

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Brad Harrison, Cup Series, Featured Content

5 Points to Ponder: Daytona Was Everything (Sort of) Right About NASCAR in 2025

August 25, 2025 by Nick Tylwalk
#12: Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, Advance Auto Parts Ford Mustang and #48: Alex Bowman, Hendrick Motorsports, Ally Chevrolet

Dramatic finishes and actual playoff drama? NASCAR could do a lot worse than that.

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Cup Series, Featured Content, Nick Tylwalk

5 Points To Ponder: Give Austin Dillon His Deserved Due

August 18, 2025 by Brad Harrison
#3: Austin Dillon, Richard Childress Racing, Bass Pro/Winchester Chevrolet wins.

Like it or not, there was nothing about Dillon’s win that was a fluke.

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Brad Harrison, Cup Series, Featured Content

5 Points to Ponder: Shane van Gisbergen Now Trackhouse’s Leading Man

August 12, 2025 by Nick Tylwalk

But don’t fret if van Gisbergen isn’t your favorite, because history and upcoming talent should loosen his grip on road course supremacy.

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Cup Series, Featured Content, Nick Tylwalk

5 Points to Ponder: Don’t Change Anything, Carson Hocevar

August 4, 2025 by Brad Harrison

Also, are these Next Gen racecars too durable?

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Brad Harrison, Cup Series, Featured Content, Xfinity

5 Points to Ponder: The NASCAR Playoffs Were Close to Going Away?

July 29, 2025 by Nick Tylwalk

Also, the In-Season Challenge may have fizzled out, but the regular season championship should be heating up.

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Cup Series, Featured Content, Nick Tylwalk

5 Points To Ponder: Are Team Orders Already Upon Us?

July 22, 2025July 21, 2025 by Brad Harrison

Also, don’t lambast Alan Gustafson for his late-race dice roll.

Categories 5 Points To Ponder, Brad Harrison, Cup Series, Featured Content, Xfinity
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