Fanning the Flames: Figuring Out France’s NASCAR Midseason “Review”
Despite attendance most weekends and a multi-billion dollar TV contract, there’s a reason NASCAR gets less play on SportsCenter than a single MLB game.
Despite attendance most weekends and a multi-billion dollar TV contract, there’s a reason NASCAR gets less play on SportsCenter than a single MLB game.
Daytona lived up to its wild reputation Saturday night, triggering another Big One that shook up the 43-car field faster than your local bingo caller.
Last Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, NASCAR Sprint Cup veteran Mark Martin noted that the racing has changed during his career.
Now that NASCAR has changed those rules, you still ain’t happy? What the hell do you want?
Now, before you go and revisit your successful Daytona 500 team, keep in mind this weekend’s event is much hotter, slicker, held at night and 100 miles shorter.
Did You Notice? That with nine races left, there’s a bit of a cushion for a handful of playoff contenders? The top six in the …
Sunday’s race was won with a bump and run from series champion Jimmie Johnson to Kurt Busch in a classic short track battle. But on Friday, Mark Martin and Jeff Burton both commented that lack of respect on the racetrack is becoming a huge problem in NASCAR, changing how the game is played in a bad way. Are they correct, or were the comments just leftover frustration from a wreck-filled race at Sonoma?
Everyone thought that a little game of road course bumper cars at Infineon would stir up the Frontstretch Power Rankings. But one week later, it …
The season started with a mechanical failure at Daytona, followed by wins in three of the next four races. The next three races saw a …
The only rival to the amount of ink wasted on Danica Patrick this past weekend proved to be the plethora of columns out there professing that Jimmie Johnson’s luck had simply run out, that this was the year the streak would finally end.
So much for that. Back-to-back wins over the last two weeks have made 2010 suddenly look a lot like 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006… you know how that story goes.