Five Points to Ponder: Where There’s “Smoke,” There’s Fire
Smoke Rising: Wasn’t it good to see the lovable curmudgeon himself, Tony Stewart, back in action at Richmond International Raceway this past Sunday? The sport …
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.
Five Points to Ponder: Barren Stands at Bristol
ONE: Barren Bristol There isn’t a cameraman skilled enough anywhere in the world that could have made the Bristol Motor Speedway stands look any better …
5 Points to Ponder: Pantomime Villains Past and Present
Villain to win at Bristol? My tip for this weekend’s win is the current pantomime villain of the NASCAR circuit: Joey Logano. It’s a role …
5 Points to Ponder: Brothers, Centurions and Nations
ONE: The Champ gets his clock In the end, by Martinsville’s very high standards, it was a relatively pain-free first victory of the year for the …
Five Points to Ponder: Can Kasey Kahne Recover?
ONE: Martinsville, Sweet Martinsville Ah, Martinsville, let me count the ways I love you. I’ve said it before countless times and I’ll say it again …
Five Points to Ponder: Dissecting Cole’s Terrific Tweet & Busch’s Recovery
ONE: Tweet of the Year I have to start out this week with a comment on what might already be the tweet of the 2016 season …
Five Points to Ponder: Status Quo and Strong Starts
Dillon’s Strong Start It has been a great first four races for Austin Dillon in his third full year of top-echelon competition. To date, Dillon …
Five Points to Ponder: Career Redefinition, NASCAR Commercials and Hope for 2016
ONE: A Finish for the Ages The simple truth is that the vast majority of the 2016 Daytona 500 was little more than a 200 …
Five Points to Ponder: The Great American Race
ONE: The Winter’s Tale NASCAR has the shortest off-season in all professional sport, but each year the break feels to me like an absolute age. …
2015 NASCAR Rewind: Denny Hamlin
All told, it wasn’t too shabby a year for Denny Hamlin. The driver of the No. 11 FedEx Toyota finished up the 2015 season in …