The Big 6: Questions Answered After the 2011 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte
Some days, it’s better to be lucky than good, but when you’re good, sometimes you set yourself up to get lucky. That’s what David Ragan did on Sunday night.
Some days, it’s better to be lucky than good, but when you’re good, sometimes you set yourself up to get lucky. That’s what David Ragan did on Sunday night.
So close yet so far aptly sums up David Ragan’s night in the Coca-Cola 600.
The Daytona 500 and Coca-Cola 600 provide something that fantasy owners don’t get in any of the other 34 races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule: a test race.
Even on a quiet All-Star night, enough contenders pulled away from pretenders for our panel of NASCAR experts to switch up the poll.
It took 12 races, but Ricky Stenhouse Jr. finally became the first Nationwide Series regular to win one of their own races in 2011.
Carl Edwards’s crew got him off pit road first after the final mandatory four-tire stop. The No. 99 cruised to a NASCAR All-Star Race win from there.
This week, here’s a sneak peek at what they all were thinking following the All-Star Race in Concord, N.C.
CONCORD, N.C. – With one of the fastest cars all weekend, David Ragan was finally able to seal the deal and capture the Sprint Showdown from the pole.
Not that it’s obvious or anything, but NASCAR really, really wanted Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the All-Star Race at Charlotte.
CONCORD, N.C. – Dale Earnhardt Jr. finds himself in a different position this weekend as he’s not guaranteed a starting spot in the All-Star event.