5 Points to Ponder: Juggernaut Jimmie, Mediocre Montoya & “Eh, Not again” Earnhardt
Now 112 races into his Sprint Cup career, Juan Montoya has just 12 top fives and 28 top 10s (18 of which came in 2009) and an average finish of 20.6.
Danny starts his 12th year with Frontstretch in 2018, writing the Tuesday signature column 5 Points To Ponder. 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.
Now 112 races into his Sprint Cup career, Juan Montoya has just 12 top fives and 28 top 10s (18 of which came in 2009) and an average finish of 20.6.
In the case of Denny Hamlin, the first three weeks of the new NASCAR season have been an early failure to live up to expectations.
With five races to go, you were seeing RCR cars running up front as a whole. It wasn’t just one. It was all of them running good.
When I got the email that Jamie McMurray would be at the Friar’s Club for a media lunch this Tuesday, I couldn’t resist.
It’s fair to say that 2009 was not a tremendous year for NASCAR TV advertising.
After last year’s damp squib of a race, what NASCAR needs is a Daytona 500 that lives up to the famous old moniker, “The Great American Race.”
The high point in 2009 for Denny Hamlin was his emotional hometown victory at Richmond International Raceway in the final race before the Chase.
Making the Chase has to go down as Juan Pablo Montoya’s highlight of the year.
It was a tremendous season for Hendrick Motorsports, so as thoughts turn to 2010, I’m going to take a look at nine non-Hendrick drivers to watch.
if you’ll forgive the crass reference, Jeff Gordon’s “Drive for Five” has very much “short-circuited” all over again.