5 Points to Ponder: Time to Crown a Champ, Plus Elliott Sadler’s Last Hurrah
ONE: Championship Weekend So, this is it, then. One more race for all the marbles. 267 laps and 400 miles on the progressive banking of …
Danny Peters has written for Frontstretch since 2006. An English transplant living in San Francisco, by way of New York City, he’s had an award-winning marketing career with some of the biggest companies sponsoring sports. Working with racers all over the country, his freelance writing has even reached outside the world of racing to include movie screenplays.
5 Points to Ponder: Cousin Carl’s Return & Trevor Bayne’s Last Hurrah
ONE: Two Into Six Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick have already booked their spots in the Championship 4 and will race for the Monster Energy …
5 Points to Ponder: Beware the Ides of “Mart”
ONE: A Dish Served Cold For the second time in five races in the 2018 playoffs, Martin Truex Jr. was denied a win on the …
5 Points to Ponder: Emotional NASCAR Rollercoaster For John Hunter Nemechek
ONE: Martinsville Hallelujah for Martinsville Speedway, the oldest, slowest and (in my humble opinion) best track on the circuit. The Chase iteration of 500 laps …
5 Points to Ponder: Heartbreak on NASCAR’s High Banks
ONE: Halfway Home Talladega Superspeedway will mark the midway point in the 2018 playoffs and for some drivers, the race will also mark the end …
5 Points to Ponder: A NASCAR Unknown (For Once)
ONE: The Roval Awaits Despite all the week to week drama inherent in NASCAR, the truth is not much really — and I mean, really …
5 Points To Ponder: 2018 IndyCar Championship Edition
ONE: The race was over before the first turn The importance of qualifying was writ large on the INDYCAR season finale before the completion of …
5 Points to Ponder: Unexpected Racing Champions
ONE: An Unexpected Champion What a huge weekend for Brad Keselowski. He won at Darlington Raceway, in both series, for the first time (and for …
5 Points to Ponder: Chasing Glory
ONE: Chasing the Playoffs Just three races remain before we begin the 2018 iteration of the playoffs and it’s an excellent trio of tracks to …
Five Points: Big Decisions Loom for NASCAR
ONE: BRIAN FRANCE Such is the vituperative nature of the 24/7/365 news cycle nowadays that when I get a “breaking news” alert on my phone, …