Race Weekend Central

Only Yesterday: Is Denny Hamlin Really Better Than Some NASCAR Champions?

2021 Phoenix Cup Championship 4 Media Day Denny Hamlin Martin Truex Jr Chase Elliott Kyle Larson Sean Gardner

(Photo by Sean Gardner/Sean Gardner via NASCAR Media)

Hamlin’s the best without a title. How many with a title is he better than?

Only Yesterday: That One Time the All-Star Race Was Held at Atlanta

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#12: Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, Wabash Ford Mustang, #9: Chase Elliott, Hendrick Motorsports, NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet Camaro, #18: Kyle Busch, Joe Gibbs Racing, M&M's Crunchy Cookie Toyota Camry, #45: Kurt Busch, 23XI Racing, Monster Energy Toyota Camry

The All-Star Race was originally supposed to rotate venues like it does now, but one trip to Atlanta changed that.

NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers: Stars of the ’60s & ’70s

LeeRoy Yarbrough

LeeRoy Yarbrough in 1968. (Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)

Fred Lorenzen, Bobby Isaac and more are up next in our recurring series.

Beside the Rising Tide: Short Takes on a Long Weekend of Racing

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(Photo: Nigel Kinrade Photography)

There are only so many weekends in a calendar year, and COVID-19 has tossed an Ozark into the cesspool in 2020. The various racing sanctioning bodies are doing their damnedest to reschedule their events and sometimes those schedules are going to overlap. Still, I found it a bit disheartening that NASCAR scheduled not one but …

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The Yellow Stripe: NASCAR Drivers I Never Got to See, But Wish I Had

My first week in the States, I watched a “Beyond the Glory” program which focused on NFL quarterback Kurt Warner. Not knowing his story – remember, I’m a transplanted Brit – I was mesmerized by Warner’s meteoric rise from shelf stacker to Super Bowl MVP. Whether you like the guy or not, it would be …

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