Fire on Fridays: Don’t Stop at Just 1 Father-Son Faceoff a Year, SRX
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Fire on Fridays: Who Is Each NASCAR Cup Team’s Alpha Driver?
A rundown of alpha drivers in each NASCAR Cup Series team.
Fire on Fridays: Pump the Brakes on Austin Cindric
He’s a Daytona 500 champion, sure. But the season’s young.
Fire on Fridays: Will Hendrick Motorsports Finally End Daytona 500 Drought?
Entering a season with so many new and unknown variables, one thing stayed constant: Hendrick Motorsports qualified on the front row for the Daytona 500.
Fire on Fridays: Driver Improvements in 2021 You Might Have Missed
Year-over-year improvement is not a given in any sport, NASCAR included. It’s expected out of some, granted, especially drivers entering their sophomore season or someone in better equipment than before. But it doesn’t always happen. Hell, sometimes performance actually suffers on a grand scale. You never know. Certain examples of upward mobility were not only …
Fire on Fridays: Are We Watching the Last (Cup) Races of Ryan Newman?
Plenty of Silly Season dominoes remain to fall before the 2022 NASCAR season begins, and perhaps the most high profile of those is the status of Ryan Newman. I mean, who else comes close? Technically Christopher Bell‘s 2022 plans haven’t been announced, but no one seems to be expecting anything but an extension for the …
Fire on Fridays: Kyle Busch Leads the Monday Night Racing Charge
Kyle Busch is in the midst of a battle for his third NASCAR Cup Series title. But in a couple weeks, he’ll start his campaign for a championship in another racing discipline. Monday Night Racing announced on Wednesday (Oct. 20) that Busch’s company Rowdy Energy would be the title sponsor for the series’ fourth season, …
Fire on Fridays: Rick Ware, Richard Petty & the Quest to Lose a Charter
Is Rick Ware Racing, or, ahem, Petty Ware Racing, about to lose a charter in the NASCAR Cup Series, or has the team already made plans to sell it? One of the big pieces of the past two Silly Season puzzles has been the game of charter musical chairs. Since 2016, there have been 36 …
Fire on Fridays: Michael Annett? Not Half Bad
The conversation around pay drivers in NASCAR has not gone away in recent years. In fact, it’s probably gotten louder. And it’s mostly negative when brought up. While a driver like Josh Berry has found success in 2021 on driver talent alone thanks to JR Motorsports being able to piece together a partial season in …
Fire on Fridays: Time to Take Talladega Out of the NASCAR Truck Playoffs
A true wild card playoff race is upon us. Teams in all three national series, the NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Truck series, are gearing up for one of the craziest weekends in their quest for the championship. This is Talladega Superspeedway. It’s one of the most exciting races of the playoffs but is …
Fire on Fridays: NASCAR Tires ‘Cutting’ Fantastic Finishes Short
The big topic coming out of NASCAR’s weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway was the feud between NASCAR Cup Series championship contenders Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott. But whether Harvick was in the wrong or Elliott was in the wrong doesn’t really matter. Because neither driver was the true culprit of the incident. No, the true …
Zach’s Turn: Pocono Raceway’s Doubleheader Canned Too Quickly
Pocono Raceway finally got to show NASCAR fans exactly how a doubleheader weekend can work. Five races in three days – two Cup Series races accompanied by ARCA Menards, Camping World Truck and Xfinity series events – provided the ultimate weekend for stock car racing fans. The Pennsylvania racing community and its surrounding areas responded …