Beside the Rising Tide: Was Bristol Bad or Brilliant?
This week I’ll just offer some thoughts and observations for the week leading up to NASCAR’s last weekend off for the Cup series this year. …
Matt joined Frontstretch in 2007 after a decade of race-writing, paired with the first generation of racing internet sites like RaceComm and Racing One. Now semi-retired, he submits occasional special features while his retrospectives on drivers like Alan Kulwicki, Davey Allison, and other fallen NASCAR legends pop up every summer on Frontstretch. A motorcycle nut, look for the closest open road near you and you can catch him on the Harley during those bright, summer days in his beloved Pennsylvania.
Beside the Rising Tide: Breaking NASCAR News – There Is None
I’d hate to call it a “meeting of the minds” in that some participants obviously lack one, but there was a mass assemblage of “principals …
Beside the Rising Tide: Summertime Blues
It’s summertime and the living is easy. As per normal, news from the racing circuit has hit a low ebb as folks busy themselves with …
Beside the Rising Tide: The Kyle Busch Rule
You’d think Kyle Busch would have been too busy celebrating this weekend. But in a mind numbing case of biting the hand that feeds him, …
Beside the Rising Tide: Real Feel Meltdown
I’ll offer some quick thoughts this week as the mercury flirts with triple digits here at Eyesore Acres and the “real-feel” number is a balmy …
Beside The Rising Tide: Remembering Davey Allison – Part 2
Editor’s Note: For Part One of Matt’s retrospective on Davey Allison, click “here.”:https://frontstretch.com/mmclaughlin/34578/
Robert Yates Racing and the team’s talented young driver Davey Allison made their official debut at the 1989 Daytona 500. Things got off to an inauspicious start. Davey was running well when Geoff Bodine got into his rear bumper and sent the No. 28 car spinning. The car rolled, but came down on all four wheels, and Allison limped off to the pits, where the crew was able to repair the car well enough to get him back out there for points. Allison finished 25th in that year’s race.
Beside the Rising Tide: Autumn’s Closing In
A funny thing happened Saturday night at Kentucky (a bunch of not-so-funny things happened at Kentucky leading up to the race, but we’ll get to …
Beside the Rising Tide: Looks Like Rain
Naturally the big headline in the aftermath of Sunday night’s (or was it Monday morning’s?) race wasn’t so much the fact Dale Earnhardt Jr. won …
Beside the Rising Tide: Lately, It Occurs To Me…
Yep, it has indeed been a long strange trip. Come this Sunday night (shooting a hostile sideways glance at NBC here.) for the first time …
Beside the Rising Tide: Dear NBC… Part III
Editor’s Note: This column is the final in a three-part series Matt’s writing about the pending return of NBC to covering the sport full-time. Check out …