Beside the Rising Tide: Short Takes & Short Tracks
Typically this time of year, things are quiet on the NASCAR news front as the sport and the country slowly begin emerging from the summer … Continue Reading
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: After the Boys of Summer Are Gone
With Labor Day weekend marking the traditional (though not actual) end of the summer season, I fear other plans might have caused some of you … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: Taking 1 for the Team
During Friday night’s NXS race at Daytona, the ugly specter of team orders once again reared its ugly head. It was no great surprise to … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: Short Takes on a Long Weekend of Racing
There are only so many weekends in a calendar year, and COVID-19 has tossed an Ozark into the cesspool in 2020. The various racing sanctioning … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: And Then There Were 3
Where has the time gone? This time of year, I’d normally be preparing for my annual family trip to the Jersey Shore. But this year, … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR’s Crap Sandwich
Way back when, in an era when the Earth was still cooling and the war in Vietnam was still heating up, there was a less … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: If You Build It…
“If you build it, they will come.” Such was the tag line to Field of Dreams, a much-awarded movie that was a hit back in the … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: Practice Makes Perfect
Few of you need me to remind you that all of us are living in extraordinary times right now. By “extraordinary,” I don’t mean to … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: For NASCAR All-Star Race, 2 Out of 3 Ain’t Bad
As our long-time friend Michael Lee Aday (aka Meatloaf) used to tell us in one of his operatic, overly bombastic, teenage testosterone-fueled hits, two out of … Continue Reading
Beside the Rising Tide: Ball of Confusion
In many ways more consequential than the sport of auto racing, the world is currently a bit topsy-turvy. Yes, meteorologically speaking we have reached summer, … Continue Reading