Folks, this is it; the home stretch. In just four weeks we’ll be leaving a plethora of what-if’s and could-be’s behind as the regular Sprint Cup season comes to an end and we embark upon the grand, mysterious, and often problematic Chase to the Cup. On the upside, we have three races left that are …
We didn’t have a Sprint Cup race this past weekend. The void in the midst of a Sunday afternoon can be a difficult thing to fill, but we get on with our day and do a few other chores around the house. For me it was a little bit of home improvement. At the end, …
Well, you can’t please everyone. After all the excitement at Martinsville, you’d think that the Texas shootout might have ended up being a little more predictable. But, no. The NASCAR gods are not quite done messing with the fans this year. They seem bound and determined that a goodly section of the grandstand will be …
What are the odds that Jeff Gordon, in a spectacularly mediocre year, has the chance to win his fifth Sprint Cup? Apparently they are one in four. When NASCAR decided to declare a victory for the Air Titans at about 11:30pm Sunday night, and I was staring at the Final Four of Gordon, Harvick, …
“What will you do when Jeff Gordon retires?” The question has been bandied around this year, mostly asked by those who are not die-hard Gordon fans. What will we do? It’s like there’s supposed to be a national crisis when the man we have cheered for since 1993 will no longer compete on a weekly …
After parking his mangled No. 19 ARRIS Toyota behind the wall Saturday night, Carl Edwards shared a stunning new fact with the viewing public. “Brad’s still not gonna lift and let me in.” <big empty silence> Really? This is news? Perhaps this myopic view of his fellow NASCAR drivers’ intentions explains a bit of why …
The day dawned bright and clear. The fans filed into the track via Daytona’s new “injectors.” Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip yakked up a storm. Mikey appeared for a short time before the green flag to play the goofy younger brother that he does so well. The pre-show went off like clockwork—on-track concert, anthem, driver …
Hey, hey! Cousin Carl executed a backflip Sunday afternoon at Bristol. Woo Hoo! We all celebrated that Kyle Busch did not continue on his stampede through every available NASCAR track. But, you did notice how it was still a Gibbs team that dominated the afternoon, didn’t you? That Gibbs also has a strangle hold on …
The bump and run, it just doesn’t get old. It doesn’t much matter if I’m watching street stocks or the Sprint Cup drivers duke it out, a last corner pass using the chrome horn is possibly one of the best moves in auto racing. My enthusiasm for the ending of Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 has …
“The World’s Fastest Junkyard” FOX’s Mike Joy may have coined the next great nickname for a track on the Sprint Cup track. It’s a shame that Talladega won’t be able to use it in their promotional material. Who wants to sell their multi-million dollar venue as a place where cars go to die? Yes, …
Every once in a while, it seems that the head office of NASCAR gets a little something stuck in their craw, and they decide to make a federal case out of a particular violation of the ever changing rules book. This past week, they suspended three crew chiefs in the Sprint Cup Series. Brian Pattie …
While the Sprint Cup Series was sorting out the new configuration and pavement of Kentucky Speedway on Saturday evening, the fans were momentarily distracted by a truck bursting into flames in one of the track parking lots. While initial conjecture had the fire starting in the BBQ that was tied to the pickup bed, track …
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