Only Yesterday: Daytona to NASCAR Title? Not So Fast
Could Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s Daytona 500 victory vault him into becoming a favorite for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series title? Not quite.
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Here’s Who’s Performing & Appearing at Daytona This Weekend
From the grand marshals to the singer of the national anthem, here’s who to expect this weekend.
NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers: The GOATs
Frontstretch kicks off its 75 Greatest NASCAR Drivers list with the cream of the crop: the GOATs.
Waid’s World: Richard Petty’s Decision Sparks ‘Southern Invasion’ of Michigan
Something monumental happened during the 1978 NASCAR Cup Series season. In fact, it was so monumental it shook the entire racing world. It was on a scale of, say, the New York Yankees trading Mickey Mantle at the pinnacle of his career. Richard Petty, who, with his family-owned Petty Enterprises, had been a famous standard-bearer …
2-Headed Monster: Hendrick Motorsports vs. Petty Enterprises – Best Team in NASCAR History?
With Kyle Larson‘s dominant performance in Sunday’s (May 30) Coca-Cola 600, Hendrick Motorsports eclipsed the 269-win record established by Petty Enterprises from 1949-1999. Both teams were the dominant forces of their respective eras, with HMS experiencing a bit of a resurgence as the team that all others have to beat each week in 2021. Two …
Beside the Rising Tide: Short Takes & Short Tracks
Typically this time of year, things are quiet on the NASCAR news front as the sport and the country slowly begin emerging from the summer doldrums. As the long hot August summer afternoons give way to the earlier sunsets of September, leaves changing color and occasional morning chills punctuated by noisy flocks of Canadian geese …
Frontstretch Podcast: Breaking Down 200 Victories for Kyle Busch & Richard Petty, Chris Buescher Chats Hot Start
In this week’s edition of the Frontstretch Podcast, Dustin Albino and Mike Neff break down the difference in the 200 race victories for Kyle Busch and Richard Petty with a pile of statistics, after Busch joined the 200 club last weekend at Auto Club Speedway. Without necessarily comparing the two, we dig into what makes the feat incredible. How …
Thinkin’ Out Loud: Joey Logano Emerges as 2018 Cup Champion
Who’s in the headline It took 10 years to fulfill the predictions but Joey Logano is your 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion. Logano took advantage of a quick, short-run car and passed Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. on a late race restart to take command of the race and run off into …
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 when it first began was simple: pit man against machine. What would tire first: an overworked engine or a weary driver? 400 laps of exhausting wrestling of the steering wheel …
The Big 6: Questions Answered After NASCAR Acceleration 2013
Leave it to Bristol Motor Speedway to capitalize on its rough-and-tumble reputation in what was perhaps the most creative game of the day in terms of the actual racing at that track. Everyone has seen the carnival games where someone has to launch a beanbag or a ball through a deceptively small hole to win a prize. But for Bristol, could there be a more appropriate version of this one than a helmet toss, paying homage to, among other incidents, Tony Stewart’s display of anger toward Matt Kenseth last summer? Apparently not, because in order to win Bristol’s prizes, fans had to fire a miniature helmet smack through the driver’s side windshield of a cardboard racecar. Sometimes things are simply right, and this game was one of those times.
Mirror Driving: Chasing Brad, Silly Season Rumors & a Toast to NASCAR’s King
Brad Keselowski had a dominating win at Kentucky on Saturday night. Is the No. 2 team a championship contender?
Top 10 Ways Richard Petty Celebrated His 75th Birthday
10. Signed autographs for members of the Level Cross Volunteer Fire Company after they tried lighting the candles on his cake.