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.
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.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: Holy Chasms, Batman! How Will the 2010 Daytona 500 Be Remembered?
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.
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Getting Dirty Feeds the Soul!
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 …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: What Kind of Fan Will You Be? An Open Letter to NASCAR Fans
Dear NASCAR fans, I suppose the 2010 season has officially kicked off.
The Big 6: Questions Answered After the 2010 Budweiser Shootout at Daytona
Any active past Daytona winner is eligible – but did it seem slightly silly to see drivers like Derrike Cope in the race?
Jarit Johnson Driver Diary: From Building Racecars to Behind the Wheel
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.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: “Spoiled,” Do NASCAR’s New Rules Take a Bite Out of Safety?
It’s up to NASCAR to take the correct steps to improve the racing, without doing anything to compromise the safety of the drivers.
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Daytona, After All These Years
The offseason was good. We had a great time. We went on our fan club cruise – that was a lot of fun. After the …
2009 NASCAR Driver Review: Casey Mears
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.
2009 NASCAR Driver Review: Jimmie Johnson
Though fans remain divided over the Chase system, Jimmie Johnson continued to quietly annihilate the competition in the 10-race playoff.