Driver vs. Driver Classic Matchups: Dale Earnhardt vs. Jeff Gordon
NASCAR’s last great rivalry couldn’t have been between two more different drivers. In one corner, there was Dale Earnhardt, the blue-collar Intimidator, who was flirting …
Dale Earnhardt
Turn Back The Clock: 2001 NASCAR Season, Dark Times
NASCAR history can be measured in several ways, whether it be decades, the presence of certain drivers or various championship point formats. For myself and …
Turn Back the Clock: 1993 NASCAR Season
While the 1992 NASCAR season is seen as the most pivotal year in the modern era of NASCAR, what followed in 1993 set the stage …
Beside the Rising Tide: Fire on Gander Mountain
NASCAR’s third level touring division, a.k.a. the Truck Series, came into being in 1995. It was a kinder, gentler era for the sanctioning body, when …
Beside the Rising Tide: Counting on a Miracle
For a sport based on high speed and non-stop action, NASCAR racing can be incredibly frustrating sometimes. It is positively soul-sapping to watch two lines …
Beside the Rising Tide: Ready, Set, 2020…
I fear calling this time of year “late winter” might be overly optimistic when it comes to continued cold snaps and snow, but I have …
20 Years Later: Dale Earnhardt’s Big Brickyard Win Remembered
Indianapolis Motor Speedway has become a tough sell among NASCAR fans. Once considered a crown jewel on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series tour, the Brickyard …
Beside The Rising Tide: Remembering Davey Allison – Part 2
Editor’s Note: For Part One of Matt’s retrospective on Davey Allison, click “here.”:https://frontstretch.com/mmclaughlin/34578/
Robert Yates Racing and the team’s talented young driver Davey Allison made their official debut at the 1989 Daytona 500. Things got off to an inauspicious start. Davey was running well when Geoff Bodine got into his rear bumper and sent the No. 28 car spinning. The car rolled, but came down on all four wheels, and Allison limped off to the pits, where the crew was able to repair the car well enough to get him back out there for points. Allison finished 25th in that year’s race.
NASCAR 101: Most Dominating Coca-Cola 600 Performances
This weekend marks the 56th running of the Coca-Cola 600, or, for longtime fans of the sport, the World 600. The premise of the race …
The Earnhardt Legacy
Fans and critics alike are raving this week following Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s return to victory lane at Talladega Superspeedway. An emotional Earnhardt claimed that he …