Holding a Pretty Wheel: NASCAR CoT Myths – Busted or for Real?
NASCAR might as well be racing Sherman tanks. To hear the teams, media and fans lately, that doesn’t seem to be far from the pervading …
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: Boston Ventures Could Give Petty Enterprises a Bright Future – If They Remember the Past
It had to happen, really. Petty Enterprises’ announcement on Wednesday that they had sold a portion of the family business that has been around as …
Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Racing, Making Gains & Oh, Hail!
Richmond was a big disappointment for me. We went there with high hopes. We had leased a Hendrick motor and we had qualified the best …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: It’s Not All Dale Earnhardt Jr. All the Time
I was reading through some old (and not-so-old) racing columns and found one that I wrote last year that got me thinking. Actually, it was …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: 3 Shots Heard ‘Round the World – NASCAR’s Defining Week
It’s the unofficial start of summer, but things heated up weeks ago in the NASCAR world. Much of the swirl of discussion has been predictable; …
Beyond the Cockpit: Elliott Sadler at Charlotte 2008
While Kasey Kahne got a million dollars richer Saturday night, Elliott Sadler had a million reasons to wonder what might have been. Polesitter for the …
Beyond the Cockpit: AJ Allmendinger’s Sophomore Season
When AJ Allmendinger was introduced as a Cup Series rookie two seasons ago, he was expected to be a work in progress – and he …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: Ken Schrader a Lot Like a Rock
It was very nearly perfect. Stock car racing returned to the too-long-silent Rockingham (formerly North Carolina) Speedway last week on a picture perfect early summer …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: Boring? What NASCAR Race Were You Watching?
You had a driver on the radio, nerves plain in his voice in the closing laps despite his lead. The driver may be a champion, …
Holding a Pretty Wheel: The More Things Change in NASCAR
Author’s note: I wrote the original incarnation of this column over four years ago. I found it earlier while looking for something else and was …