What’s Vexing Vito? Robby Gordon Just Now Returning to NASCAR
You may remember the “other” Gordon; nails on the twisties, out to lunch on downforce tracks and the only other Dodge team fielding a car for 2012.
Vito is one of the longest-tenured writers at Frontstretch, joining the staff in 2007. He’s been a contributor to several other outlets, including Athlon Sports and Popular Speed in addition to making radio appearances and podcast appearnces here on Stock Car Scoop and Happy Hour. He forever has a soft-spot in his heart for old Mopars, late model Fords, and is generally a warehouse of useless automotive information.
You may remember the “other” Gordon; nails on the twisties, out to lunch on downforce tracks and the only other Dodge team fielding a car for 2012.
Might Kurt Busch’s slight towards The Sporting News’s Bob Pockrass end up landing the No. 51 Phoenix Racing team a sponsor after all?
We’ve all been inundated with articles and stories this week about how Kurt Busch is down to his final two bullets, like John McClane at the end of Die Hard.
The big joke this weekend at the Indianapolis 500 was that the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 pace car had more horsepower than the cars that were behind it.
Perhaps I am in the minority here, but I think Kurt Busch gets a bad rap.
Danica Patrick will be the third woman this weekend to compete in a Cup race at Darlington, following Janet Guthrie and Shawna Robinson.
Bruton Smith is moving forward with ruining yet another perfectly good NASCAR racetrack in the hopes of – wait for it – improving racing.
NASCAR is in a bit of a precarious situation with announcing this many people and only five Hall of Fame spots on hand every year.
With all of this nonsense swirling about, it’s time for a REALITY CHECK.
Full Metal Jacket came to mind after the back and forth that has raged with regards to the plight of Chad Knaus, Ron Malec and the No. 48 team.