Holding a Pretty Wheel: UNqualified Failure – Racing Isn’t About Speed Anymore
While 43 race teams prepared their cars for Sunday’s race at Auto Club Speedway, what was happening to three other teams told a different story.
While 43 race teams prepared their cars for Sunday’s race at Auto Club Speedway, what was happening to three other teams told a different story.
The hole that appeared in turn 2 at Daytona was symbolic of so much more: the gulf NASCAR has dug itself into over the past several years.
Early in my career, back in the late 1970s, I would come down to Daytona with my family for about five or six days. It wasn’t until later in my career that I’ve come down a full seven or eight days before everyone gets here. We got here on Jan. 31. This year I took …
Dear NASCAR fans, I suppose the 2010 season has officially kicked off.
Any active past Daytona winner is eligible – but did it seem slightly silly to see drivers like Derrike Cope in the race?
I started racing motorcycles out in California when I was four years old, and that went on for several years, until Dad decided he wanted Jimmie and me in a roll cage. He wanted it to be safe. So I got into the off-road stuff, and that led into the SCORE off-road series, the desert races.
It’s up to NASCAR to take the correct steps to improve the racing, without doing anything to compromise the safety of the drivers.
The offseason was good. We had a great time. We went on our fan club cruise – that was a lot of fun. After the cruise, we came back and went to St. Louis for a couple of weeks for Christmas… then, you end up hitting the reset button. It’s kind of fun to spend …
For the second year in a row, Casey Mears took over a team that had qualified for the Chase the previous year and failed to make the Chase himself.
Though fans remain divided over the Chase system, Jimmie Johnson continued to quietly annihilate the competition in the 10-race playoff.
Editor’s Note: SPEED analyst and full-time Nationwide Series driver Kenny Wallace does a monthly diary about his life in NASCAR, both behind the mike and behind the wheel of the No. 28 U.S. Border Patrol Chevrolet for Jay Robinson. This edition is his final entry for 2009. The last couple of races of the year …
Allmendinger carried the RPM torch to a 10th-place run in the Ford 400, bookending his season with top-10 finishes and making a statement.
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