This upcoming Sprint Cup race at Michigan will mark the sixth straight that Dale Earnhardt Jr has missed due to his concussion. All he can do is watch as Alex Bowman takes over his car for the second time this season. Earnhardt will also miss his seventh race next weekend, when Jeff Gordon returns to …
One event that has seemed to be a bit bizarre each summer is the Wednesday night Bristol race for the Camping World Truck Series. It’s not bizarre in a way of goblins suddenly rushing the track or any other kind of funny business, but rather because the sanctioning body continues to condone a weeknight race. …
Apparently this weekend is a bit of a quiet one. The Cup Series is taking its last break of the year, allowing everyone to catch a breath before jumping into the pressure and difficulties of closing out the season – be it as a Chase driver or one getting ready for next year. The Truck …
This weekend Formula 1 visits one of its old stomping grounds when the series hits Hockenheimring for the German Grand Prix. If you recall, there was no German GP last year. In one of those moves that angered fans and confused those within the sport, F1 supremo leveraged the race against more money and ultimately …
What is to be made of Cup racing at the moment? From a distanced perspective, it is a wild hodge-podge of things, full of positives that run along with various questions. The aero package introduced this year has looked to be a wonderful improvement over the past couple years, though it hasn’t changed the fact …
As Formula 1 is set to have back-to-back race weekends before the summer break, here’s a look at what’s happening at this week’s Hungarian Grand Prix. – Mercedes and Nico Rosberg tested the limits of the radio rules governing F1 this year at Silverstone, giving with the team giving him coaching which resulted in a …
What to do, what to do? One of the things that Bill France decried when shepherding the sport of NASCAR was that the fans should walk away knowing who won the race. Apparently that meant that the fans knowing something equated to cementing the results and tinkering with infractions later. Matt Kenseth failing laser …
Welcome back to some more Formula 1. In previous years it was rare to have back-to-back race weekends, but this year there’s five, with this one being the second. Then again, there’s also 21 races this season which seems to be the series at its threshold with regard to the number of events it should …
This past weekend highlighted how the concept of racing can go awry. At its most basic, racing seems to focus on the idea of trying to outrun other people and/or teams. To go with that wonderful staple, Merriam-Webster sees things like this: race a competition between people, animals, vehicles, etc., to see which one is …
The last Formula 1 race, the first on the Baku Street Circuit in Azerbaijan, highlighted one of the problems with the current rules governing the sport. Now, it’s rather easy to find faults with a litany of rules that oversee everything from the car to the pits to the helmets. That the drivers are prohibited …
Road course racing has gained in popularity over the past few years. One of the reasons for this shift is that the races have supplanted the smaller tracks as the place for action, or more specifically, the proverbial beatin’ and bangin’ that so many fans enjoy. When Bruton Smith tinkered with Bristol Motor Speedway (over …
This weekend Formula 1 will race on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, a new track to the schedule. The addition provides another tight challenge to the calendar as the track features some of the same unforgiving aspects of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. There had been a slight possibility that the series might visit Baku last year …
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