Numbers Game: 2011 Auto Club 400 at Fontana
1 – the number of laps Kevin Harvick led in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race (March 27) at Auto Club Speedway.
1 – the number of laps Kevin Harvick led in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race (March 27) at Auto Club Speedway.
The win at Fontana will go down in the record books as belonging to Kyle Busch, but Jason Ratcliffe deserved the trophy more than any other on this Saturday.
No Roush Nationwide Series regular has ever won a race at Fontana, or even scored a top-five finish, since the track hosted its first race in 1997.
I was really disheartened about being involved in that wreck in Daytona. But I knew we were a top-10 car leaving Daytona and I knew we had to have a good race at Phoenix to start building points. I went in with an open mind and feeling positive. We didn’t get the qualifying run we …
Rick Ware Racing mechanic Stephen “Dirt” Masch, who was injured in an auto accident on March 11, lost his battle against the head and spinal cord injuries.
After a relatively quiet weekend in Thunder Valley, it’s heartening to see Bristol still brings out the worst in some people, chief among them Kevin Harvick.
Bristol Motor Speedway had a lot of empty seats on Sunday. Has the racing really changed that much since the resurfacing, or is the real problem something else?
Estimates that 120,000 fans were in the stands at Bristol Motor Speedway this past Sunday (March 20) were gross exaggerations.
If Bristol held a racing weekly series, Kyle Busch would probably be the five-time champion rather than Jimmie Johnson.
FOX needs to show more of the show, same as ESPN. Just not a good week in general, NASCAR TV-wise, at Bristol.
5 – consecutive victories for Kyle Busch at Bristol in NASCAR competition, spanning all three major series.
Love him or hate him – and most of the people reading this prefer the latter – one can’t deny the impressive performance of Kyle Busch.
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