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.
Seventy years into the game, NASCAR teams will use this weekend at Darlington Raceway to celebrate the sport’s long and colorful history with throwback paint … Continue Reading
1. Because tracks It seems easy enough: make changes to the schedules, the cars, the playoffs, even the drivers. But NASCAR is a complex organism, … Continue Reading
Who…gets my shoutout of the race? Getting your best finish of the year? Good. Getting it at your home track? Bonus. Trevor Bayne put together … Continue Reading
1. Kurt Busch 2004 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Busch won’t return to powerhouse Stewart-Haas Racing next year. Each driver move creates two pieces … Continue Reading
Who… gets my shoutout of the race? Sometimes a driver needs a good finish to turn things around, and this week that happened for Brad … Continue Reading
1. Humanize the process again Last week in Holding a Pretty Wheel, I examined the recent rash of inspection failures in NASCAR. There’s plenty of … Continue Reading
Who… gets my shoutout of the race? With the excitement over Chase Elliott’s first win, another young driver looking to break through for the first … Continue Reading
To the rear, inspection. These words have become all too familiar over the last couple of seasons as NASCAR has cracked down on weekend inspection … Continue Reading
Who… gets my shoutout of the race? Kevin Harvick had a top-five finish at Kentucky Speedway, the best among his Stewart-Haas Racing teammates, but he … Continue Reading
1. Erik Jones, July 2018 Not everyone loves a winner, but most fans love a first-time winner. Erik Jones was the most recent driver to … Continue Reading