Numbers Game: 2011 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte
6 – the number of drivers that started outside the top 20 in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 and finished in the top 10.
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6 – the number of drivers that started outside the top 20 in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 and finished in the top 10.
As Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran down the backstretch, the tank ran dry. Coasting through the final corner, Earnhardt Jr. could only watch as Kevin Harvick drove past.
When JR Hildebrand hit the wall in the fourth turn while leading the last lap, Wheldon slipped by a couple hundred yards to win his second Indianapolis 500.
So close yet so far aptly sums up David Ragan’s night in the Coca-Cola 600.
Will Danica Patrick go to NASCAR full time in 2012?
Maybe a fan vote could determine which track hosts the NASCAR All-Star Race.
Kimi Raikkonen, following a mid-pack Truck Series finish, has been promoted to the Nationwide Series and has even tested a Cup car (and crashed it).
Was it a patch of really thick grass (thick enough to tear the front end off a racecar), or did Carl Edwards get caught on a drain? NASCAR intends to find out.
Maybe some of the money raised on NASCAR Day can go to the Hall of Fame. They seem to need it!
The Daytona 500 and Coca-Cola 600 provide something that fantasy owners don’t get in any of the other 34 races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule: a test race.