5 Points to Ponder: The Fantastic Four
ONE: The Championship Four All week long, conventional wisdom suggested that Kyle Busch (+22 points up on fifth place) and Joey Logano (+20 on fifth) …
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5 Points to Ponder: Penske’s Power Move
ONE: Penske’s Power Move I think it’s fair to say that no-one — outside those directly involved — had any sense that we were going …
5 Points to Ponder: And Then There Were 8
ONE: And Then There Were 8 I’m going to boldly predict that not many prognosticators had Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Denny Hamlin winning the …
5 Points To Ponder: What Might Have Been Without a NASCAR Playoff
ONE: What Might Have Been Next to the actual Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series points standings on that little gem of a site, www.racing-reference.info, are …
5 Points to Ponder: Expect the Unexpected
ONE: The Roval Unlike every other circuit on the Monster Energy Cup Series slate, and especially the other nine tracks that make up NASCAR’s postseason, …
5 Points to Ponder: Impending Fireworks
ONE: Impending Fireworks Like the format or not — and I realize plenty who will read this column absolutely and definitively do not — one …
5 Points to Ponder: Is Joey Logano This Year’s Joey Logano?
ONE: Is Joey Logano This Year’s Joey Logano? In 2018, we spent a lot of time debating which of the “Big Three” who had dominated …
5 Points to Ponder: Playoff Points Payoff
Bonus Points Heading into the 2018 iteration of the playoffs, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick had a whopping 50 bonus points apiece while Martin Truex …
5 Points to Ponder: A True Hero
A Hero, Defined To many people, race car drivers are heroes, and it’s a thought echoed in the famous old Ernest Hemingway quote: “There are …
5 Points to Ponder: Taking Stock
Taking Stock With nine races in the books – a quarter of the way through the full season — and an off weekend ahead, it …