Sunday’s race was won with a bump and run from series champion Jimmie Johnson to Kurt Busch in a classic short track battle. But on Friday, Mark Martin and Jeff Burton both commented that lack of respect on the racetrack is becoming a huge problem in NASCAR, changing how the game is played in a bad way. Are they correct, or were the comments just leftover frustration from a wreck-filled race at Sonoma?
The only rival to the amount of ink wasted on Danica Patrick this past weekend proved to be the plethora of columns out there professing that Jimmie Johnson’s luck had simply run out, that this was the year the streak would finally end.
So much for that. Back-to-back wins over the last two weeks have made 2010 suddenly look a lot like 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006… you know how that story goes.
Before I get into the actual race critiques, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the inexplicable substance-abuse suspension of Randy LaJoie by NASCAR.
Kyle Busch became the first repeat winner of the Nationwide Series event at Loudon.
Like it or not, NASCAR and ESPN are at the controls of this sinking ship. And they’re putting a lot of faith in Danica-mania being the ticket back to port.
Did You Notice? With Todd Parrott’s reassignment Tuesday (June 22), Matt Kenseth is now on his fifth crew chief in less than three years?
The Nationwide Series just held its first ever race at Road America to mixed reviews. What did you think of the race and does it deserve a return trip in 2011?
On Monday, NASCAR and Turner Sports announced that the Coke Zero 400 telecast on July 3 will also be the very first NASCAR race available in 3D.
Carl Edwards led 35 of the 50 laps run in NASCAR’s debut race on the Road America road course with this division, stealing the lead for good on lap 41.
Here we are in June already. So far this month, we raced at Nashville and Kentucky. At Nashville, it was cool because we had the …