Shakedown Session: Rough Road for Cup Rookies in Recent Years
Being a Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year, as Forrest Gump would say, is like a box of chocolates. Fans never know what they’re going to get.
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Being a Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year, as Forrest Gump would say, is like a box of chocolates. Fans never know what they’re going to get.
One of the many reasons that 2011 has managed to hold our interest from beginning to end is the sheer competitiveness of it.
A week after a driver was parked for deliberately wrecking another driver, NASCAR did not penalize an incident that, to many observers, looked intentional.
4. Have them both join Twitter at the same time and see who can get more followers in the first 24 hours they’re online. Welcome to 2011, folks.
It doesn’t seem possible, but somehow 35 weeks of racing have surpassed us and now it’s time for one final hurrah to end the 2011 season.
3 – times Tony Stewart has led the most laps in the last four races. Stewart led a race-high 160 laps at Phoenix.
Like dust in the wind, so is the reign of Mr. Five-Time.
After 312 laps at the new Phoenix International Raceway, we’ll go to the final race with just three lousy points separating Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart.
Love him or hate him, Jimmie Johnson’s incredible five-year run as the NASCAR Sprint Cup champion was nothing short of phenomenal.
Victory lane at Phoenix Sunday (Nov. 13) was full of “bull.” Red Bull, that is.