Did You Notice? NASCAR Midseason Oddities, Risk Takers & the Trouble With Turning 40
Did You Notice? Statistical oddities that tell us the story of the NASCAR Cup schedule halfway through this season?
Did You Notice? Statistical oddities that tell us the story of the NASCAR Cup schedule halfway through this season?
Did the strength of Kyle Busch’s victory, pushing him ahead of Kevin Harvick in points, have him climbing to the top in our weekly Power Rankings?
Carl Edwards lost the points lead on Saturday night at Daytona – did he also lose the top spot in the Power Rankings to new top dog Kevin Harvick?
Daytona featured a track-record 74 lead changes in February and Talladega featured a track-record 88 lead changes in April.
Is Carl Edwards’s lead in the poll growing like his lead in the points standings after another strong run at Sonoma, while his closest pursuers had bad days?
Was Denny Hamlin’s first win of the season at Michigan enough to vault him into the top spot in the Power Rankings?
Remember Trevor Bayne? Daytona 500 champion? New face of NASCAR? The driver who disappeared from NASCAR?
I would put David Ragan back in the lineup this weekend. He has a pair of top 10s in eight starts there and the Roush cars are always strong in the Irish Hills.
The tricky triangle in the Pocono Mountains threw the competitors some curveballs this spring, the unique three-turn track paired with the return of shifting.
No matter how cool a NASCAR driver’s job is, it’s another day at the office. And if that’s true, then Eldora is the company picnic.