Racing To The Point: Sliced Bread Ready To Be Served
There’s been a question mark hanging over Joey Logano’s head since the then-18-year-old filled Tony Stewart’s seat at Joe Gibbs Racing at the start of …
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Racing to the Point: Balancing NASCAR Trash Talk With Credibility
There’s nothing better than sticking a microphone in front of a wrecked driver just moments after he or she exits the car. The quicker the …
Racing To The Point: The Sorry State Of NASCAR’s Second Tier
I could’ve sworn that NASCAR made a rule change last week stipulating that cars could no longer run cool-down laps at the bottom of the track, but …
Racing To The Point: Kinks In Qualifying Need Fixed — And Fast
You know when you’re driving down the interstate in a pack of cars going about 75 mph and, all of a sudden, you come up …
Racing To The Point: How Rain Saved The 2014 Daytona 500
The Daytona 500 is an afternoon race — always has been. There’s something that feels right about the sun shining down on the newest race …
2014 Sprint Cup Predictions: Our Staff Tells All
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NASCAR 2014 Season Preview: Nationwide & Trucks Attendance & Ratings
New playoff system. New qualifying procedure. New attitude. As NASCAR heads towards Daytona in 2014, all around the sport are focused on the positive, looking …
NASCAR 2014 Season Preview: The Rookie of the Year Battle
New playoff system. New qualifying procedure. New attitude. As NASCAR heads towards Daytona in 2014, all around the sport are focused on the positive, looking …
Racing to the Point: “Game 7 Moments” Don’t Feel Like Game 7 At All
Most playoff series don’t reach Game 7. Some go four games, some five, some six, but few go seven. There’s a reason for it: Game …
Almirola Finally Proving He Belongs In Sprint Cup
The former Joe Gibbs Racing developmental driver won the pole for a Nationwide race at Milwaukee in 2007, and started the race only to have to give up his seat on lap 59 when Denny Hamlin finally arrived at the track. Almirola was running third at the time, but he was thrown to the side like last week’s garbage because Rockwell Automation wanted a Sprint Cup star in its car. Hamlin took over and drove from the back to Victory Lane.
Hamlin celebrated while Almirola was credited with his first and only Nationwide win. It might’ve been the first time in history a driver was embarrassed to have won a race.