Amy Henderson

Amy is an 20-year veteran NASCAR writer and a six-time National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) writing award winner, including first place awards for both columns and race coverage. As well as serving as Photo Editor, Amy writes The Big 6 (Mondays) after every NASCAR Cup Series race. She can also be found working on her bi-weekly columns Holding A Pretty Wheel (Tuesdays) and Only Yesterday (Wednesdays). A New Hampshire native whose heart is in North Carolina, Amy’s work credits have extended everywhere from driver Kenny Wallace’s website to Athlon Sports. She can also be heard weekly as a panelist on the Hard Left Turn podcast that can be found on AccessWDUN.com's Around the Track page.

Paul Menard Takes Pole for 2011 Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage at Charlotte

March 24, 2023October 14, 2011 by Amy Henderson

CONCORD, N.C. – Paul Menard will start on the pole for Friday’s Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage (Oct. 14).

4 Nationwide Stars Have Extra Incentive Friday Night at Charlotte

March 24, 2023October 14, 2011 by Amy Henderson

CONCORD, N.C. – Four Nationwide Series Drivers will be running with a little extra incentive on Friday night – $100,000 worth of incentive, to be exact.

Holding a Pretty Wheel: The Poaching of Dollar General Another Blow to the Sport

March 24, 2023October 13, 2011 by Amy Henderson

Poaching sponsors is nothing new, but there’s something that just smacks of entitlement and greed when a Cup team woos a sponsor away from an independent.

The Big 6: Questions Answered After the 2011 Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas

March 21, 2023October 10, 2011 by Amy Henderson

Why … did Clint Bowyer wind up at Michael Waltrip Racing?

Holding a Pretty Wheel: Washed up by 25, Why NASCAR Needs a Stronger Development Path

March 16, 2023October 6, 2011 by Amy Henderson

Casey Atwood is the poster child for being thrown into the limelight too early, and then tossed away when things don’t go right.

The Big 6: Questions Answered After the AAA 400 at Dover

March 14, 2023October 2, 2011 by Amy Henderson

Gaining double-digit positions over the course of a race isn’t easy and at Dover it’s even harder.

Holding a Pretty Wheel: Putting a Stop to Start-&-Parks Requires Help, Not Punishment

March 14, 2023September 29, 2011 by Amy Henderson

It can’t go on like this.

Something must be done.

It’s ruining our sport.

These are some of the things being said around the garage and in the grandstands about a practice that has popped up in NASCAR in the past few seasons: starting the race and parking the car early, claiming some phantom issue, and collecting the prize money for a finish that is usually somewhere between 35th and 43rd place.