5 Points to Ponder: Of Drugs, Developing Drivers, Drafting & Daytona
ONE: The Irrelevance of the Firecracker 400 at Daytona
ONE: The Irrelevance of the Firecracker 400 at Daytona
Not much has affected the No. 48 team in 2012, but even Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus were powerless against superspeedway racing.
Ryan Newman’s crew chief Tony Gibson is our guest and talks about the importance of aerodynamics, mechanical grip and rolling the center of the corners.
It’s Sunday afternoon (July 8) and we pulled our RV into lot S9 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
I’m often asked why I love NASCAR. Most of the time it’s from a person with an incredulous look of either despair, disgust or out-right confusion on their face.
7 – Joey Logano now has seven top-10 finishes in 2012, more than his total from last year of six.
The weekend’s big loser was AJ Allmendinger. If you were on vacation, he was suspended from driving in the Firecracker after failing a random drug test.
Ryan Hunter-Reay spanked the field for a third straight week, taking home the checkers in the Honda Indy Toronto.
The 2012 grave for ‘Dinger will officially be dug this week, when NASCAR tests his “B” sample after a failed drug test got him pulled from Daytona.
If there’s a way to describe Sam Hornish Jr.’s stint as a fill-in driver for the suspended AJ Allmendinger on Saturday at Daytona, it’s a good soldier.