5 Points to Ponder: A Worthy Champion
ONE: A Worthy Champion In the last 10 years, no one has won more Cup races than Kyle Busch, so it seems apt that he …
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: The Fantastic Four
ONE: The Championship Four All week long, conventional wisdom suggested that Kyle Busch (+22 points up on fifth place) and Joey Logano (+20 on fifth) …
5 Points to Ponder: Penske’s Power Move
ONE: Penske’s Power Move I think it’s fair to say that no-one — outside those directly involved — had any sense that we were going …
5 Points to Ponder: And Then There Were 8
ONE: And Then There Were 8 I’m going to boldly predict that not many prognosticators had Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Denny Hamlin winning the …
5 Points To Ponder: What Might Have Been Without a NASCAR Playoff
ONE: What Might Have Been Next to the actual Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series points standings on that little gem of a site, www.racing-reference.info, are …
5 Points to Ponder: Expect the Unexpected
ONE: The Roval Unlike every other circuit on the Monster Energy Cup Series slate, and especially the other nine tracks that make up NASCAR’s postseason, …
5 Points to Ponder: Impending Fireworks
ONE: Impending Fireworks Like the format or not — and I realize plenty who will read this column absolutely and definitively do not — one …
5 Points to Ponder: Is Joey Logano This Year’s Joey Logano?
ONE: Is Joey Logano This Year’s Joey Logano? In 2018, we spent a lot of time debating which of the “Big Three” who had dominated …
5 Points to Ponder: Playoff Points Payoff
Bonus Points Heading into the 2018 iteration of the playoffs, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick had a whopping 50 bonus points apiece while Martin Truex …
5 Points to Ponder: A True Hero
A Hero, Defined To many people, race car drivers are heroes, and it’s a thought echoed in the famous old Ernest Hemingway quote: “There are …