The Yellow Stripe: Reasons to Keep Watching NASCAR in 2009 (No Really, There Are… I Think)
I was appalled by the lack of racing and then carnage at the end of what purported to be a NASCAR race, but was a glorified 2.66-mile game of Scalextric.
I was appalled by the lack of racing and then carnage at the end of what purported to be a NASCAR race, but was a glorified 2.66-mile game of Scalextric.
Fast forward to Sunday’s return to the track in the shadow of the Blue Ridge and there’s three words that sum up where we are: Jimmie flipping Johnson.
For all intents and purposes Carl Edwards’s quest for his first Sprint Cup crown is over. Surprise, surprise.
Hands up those who predicted Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s season would be quite this bad? Not so many of you, huh?
All told, it was a damn fine weekend for Juan Pablo Montoya.
A few weeks back, one of my colleagues at Frontstretch, Mr. Phil Allaway, wrote an excellent piece on how ESPN put together at-track NASCAR race broadcasts. It was the sort of behind the scenes “Insider” look at the sport that you don’t often get to read and if you haven’t checked it out you really …
The difference between champagne-soaked success and bitter, incongruous crumpled sheetmetal defeat in NASCAR is razor thin. And it’s a fact the good folks at Richard Childress Racing know all too well this season. After two years of placing all three cars in the elite Chase field, the addition of Casey Mears in a fourth car …
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and in the case of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series that’s certainly how I felt this past Sunday (Aug. 30), as for the fourth and final time this season, NASCAR’s top echelon took a well-deserved weekend off from the relentless slog that is the Cup schedule. With …
It’s hard to believe it was almost four years ago that I sat down to watch the Samsung 500 at Auto Club Speedway – my first ever NASCAR experience. The race, some might remember, was won by Kyle Busch, his first at the Sprint Cup level, and in doing so he became the youngest driver …
There are some days that are just meant to be. Those oh-so-rare days when you are the best, you know you’re the best, and more importantly, so does everyone else. The sort of days when everything falls into place, right at the exact time you need it. Monday was just such a day for Denny …
I know not everyone will agree, but I for one very much enjoyed the TNT coverage this year.
With the honorable exception of David Reutimann, the driver formerly known as the Franchise, it was another very positive weekend for Michael Waltrip Racing at Infineon Raceway this past Sunday; yet more evidence to support the remarkable rise from the ashes of the jet-fuel “first race” debacle at Daytona in 2007. Taking top billing was …
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