Matt McLaughlin’s Thinkin’ Out Loud: 2010 Phoenix Spring Race Recap
Because ISC purchased the speedway, Phoenix got a second date each year and attendance has been down ever since. Oh boy, we get to go back to Phoenix this fall!
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.
Because ISC purchased the speedway, Phoenix got a second date each year and attendance has been down ever since. Oh boy, we get to go back to Phoenix this fall!
After two weekends off interspersed amidst the first six races, the Cup schedule now features 14 consecutive weeks of competition.
With all due respect to the incomparable Smokey Robinson, one of those things that’s sadder than the Tears of a Clown is rain at a racetrack.
The two Cup dates at tiny Martinsville are circled on my calendar as must-see events.
Chad Knaus’s questionable call to outfit Jimmie Johnson’s No. 48 with four tires on the final stop paid off at Bristol.
The first four races of the NASCAR season have offered a variety of tracks. Naturally there was the Daytona 500, one of four plate tracks on the schedule.
Kurt Busch held off Matt Kenseth and Juan Pablo Montoya on the final restart to score his second consecutive spring Atlanta race win.
Ms. Danica Patrick will be taking a four-month break from taxicab racing to return to her day job wheeling glorified go-karts in IndyCar.
With 16 laps left Jimmie Johnson, with four fresh tires, passed race leader Jeff Gordon, who had just two, to take the lead and the win at Las Vegas.
Folks who’ve been reading (enduring?) my missives a long while know that I don’t frequently do columns that are autobiographical in nature. I figure you’re …