5 Points to Ponder: Earnhardt’s Error, Biffle Steady, Hamlin Heroics
This past week, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was estimated by Forbes magazine to be the top-earning driver in the sport, raking in some $30 million a year.
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.
This past week, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was estimated by Forbes magazine to be the top-earning driver in the sport, raking in some $30 million a year.
Kurt Busch reacted to unpalatable defeat like he was drinking a cup of cold sick. “I’d rather lose to any of the other 41 cars out there than the No. 48 car.”
Last season, Kurt Busch won the “Non-Hendrick” championship and on the very early evidence another similar finish certainly doesn’t look out of the question.
For my money – what little of it I have – the Kobalt Tools 500 at the venerable old Atlanta Motor Speedway was a pretty solid race.
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.”