Race Trax: 2006 Bank of America 500 at Charlotte
The Bank of America 500 is the 31st race on the 36-race NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule. The Cup Series visits 1.5-mile Lowe’s Motor Speedway twice a year.
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.
That’s History: NASCAR, Fix the Future… NOW!
What I’m going to write about – what I need to write about after the race at Talladega – is how NASCAR needs to prepare for a future that is less than bright.
Race Trax: 2006 UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega
The UAW-Ford 500 is the 30th race on the 36-race NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule. The Cup Series visits the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway twice in 2006.
That’s History: 5 Years to 1 Blaise… & Gone
Blaise Alexander, just 25 years old, passed away on Oct. 4, 2001, after injuries sustained in an accident in that night’s ARCA EasyCare 100.
Race Trax: 2006 Banquet 400 at Kansas
The Banquet 400 is the 29th race on the 36-race NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule and the third in the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
That’s History: Chase This!
The Chase is on and what a better way to honor it then with some useless facts? That’s right, race fans, I said useless.
No Chase? Great!
It occurred to me that with all the things there are to complain about with the Busch and Truck series, they both have one great rule: no Chase.
Race Trax: 2006 Dover 400
The Dover 400 is the 28th race on the 36-race NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule and the second in the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
Race Trax: 2006 Sylvania 300 at Loudon
The Sylvania 300 is the 27th race on the 36-race NASCAR Nextel Cup schedule. The series returns for the first race of the Chase this time around.
Jimmie Johnson’s Gift
The Jimmie Johnson Foundation, founded by Jimmie Johnson and wife Chandra earlier this year, was about doing what Johnson, the person, felt was right and just.