It’s this time of year interest in the sport of NASCAR racing tends to wane a bit. With the kids out of school, family vacations, and so many interesting outdoor options available across most of the country perhaps that’s to be expected. By coincidence or design, NASCAR’s schedule heads off to a series of tracks …
The Key Moment – On the final restart, Brad Keselowski got a much-needed push from teammate Joey Logano. Behind him, the Busch brothers battled (though not with paddles, in a bottle, on poodles). Team Penske’s Logano faded and Keselowski, topping off a dominant night, went on to score his first win at Daytona International Speedway. In a …
Tick, tick, tick. Four times a year, the sport’s big kahunas cross their fingers and throw caution to the wind in the form of a green flag at Daytona or Talladega. While NASCAR as an organization always claims that safety is paramount in every decision it makes, carefully worded platitudes don’t pay the bills — …
NASCAR’s Cup series took an all-too-rare weekend off this week. The timing seems a bit awkward to me in that I seem to recall the off weekend used to fall as FOX handed off to whatever network was going to broadcast the second half of the season. Perhaps it has something to do with Fathers’ …
The Key Moment – When that particular No. 78 car was completed, some mechanic grinned, slammed the hood and said, “Yeah, this one ought to run pretty good.” In a Nutshell – After a season fraught with frustration, Martin Truex, Jr. put on a clinic and finally sealed the deal with a dominant win. Truex led …
I have a face I can not show, I make the rules up as I go….. -Sheryl Crow- Perhaps the inestimable Ms. Crow isn’t the best cultural reference here. Older fans may remember the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” from back in our middle school days… lyrics muddled by bursts of static on the local …
In the wake of an eventful and violent Sprint Cup practice session on Friday, there was quite a hullabaloo over portions of Dover International Speedway still having unlined concrete walls up against the racing surface. Danica Patrick’s Chevy suffered a major rear-end differential failure that briefly ignited the rear half of the car. (One must …
Thursday, NASCAR released 2017 schedules for its top 3 touring divisions: Some New Sponsor That Hasn’t Signed On Yet Cup Series, the XFINITY Series and the Camping World Truck Series. While the timing was months ahead of the normal late summer to mid-fall announcement there wasn’t much newsworthy contained in the media release. (Despite the rather florid …
One of the few benefits of getting older is a hard won acceptance that some things just are as they are. That’s not always such a great thing. As the Speaker relates in the Book of Ecclesiasticus “All is wearisome. There is nothing new under the sun.” (OK, more formerly: All things are wearisome; Man …
Thursday, most fans of the sport were delighted to hear that three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart had recovered well enough from a back injury suffered in an OHV accident that he could resume racing again. NASCAR welcomed him back with the now near-obligatory waiver of the requirement to run every race to potentially make …
The Key Moment – In the last corner of the last lap, Carl Edwards put a bumper to teammate Kyle Busch to nudge him out of a way to take the win. In a Nutshell – The first three quarters of the race might have been rather sedate, but things heated up nicely there at …
Those of us who grew up attending races at the dirt and asphalt bull-rings peppered around the country had great expectations concerning Saturday’s XFINITY Series race. Of course like in Dickens’ Great Expectations, assigned by many a sadistic high school English teacher, the reality wasn’t as fine as we’d been told to expect. For the first time in …
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