Only Yesterday: That One Time the All-Star Race Was Held at Atlanta
The All-Star Race was originally supposed to rotate venues like it does now, but one trip to Atlanta changed that.
Dale Earnhardt
Only Yesterday: Kevin Harvick Looks To Join One of NASCAR’s Most Exclusive Clubs in Phoenix
A 10th Phoenix win would put Harvick in elite company.
Waid’s World: The Radical Radial Ends the Costly Tire Competition
While the Tire Wars caused problems for NASCAR and its drivers, they led to technical improvements that made tires more durable and safer.
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.
Up to Speed: Dale Jarrett, Joe Gibbs, See Early Glory in 1993 Daytona 500
By the end of the 2022 season, JGR has won five Cup Series titles and exactly 200 wins, a remarkable run that all began 30 years ago in Daytona.
NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers: The GOATs
Frontstretch kicks off its 75 Greatest NASCAR Drivers list with the cream of the crop: the GOATs.
No Time to Get Complacent on Safety
Twenty years ago – has it really been that long? Seems like it was just a week or maybe a year ago. Twenty years since we lost the biggest star in the history of the sport. Thankfully his death wasn’t in vain. The safety innovations that were brought to the sport in the months and …
The Frontstretch 5: Best NASCAR Cup Seasons By Drivers Who Didn’t Win Championship
1. 1985 Bill Elliott won plenty of races and money and even earned a couple really cool nicknames in 1985. But the big prize eluded the red-headed Georgia leadfoot that year. Elliott came into 1985 having won a total of four NASCAR Cup Series races during the previous two seasons, but proved to be almost …
Beside the Rising Tide: If They Ain’t Cheering They Better Be Booing
Hey Boy Blue, can’t you hear all the noise? It’s for you, all the town’s waiting there. – Jeff Lynne It seems like ancient history now, but last week at Charlotte, Chase Elliott finally broke through with his first Cup win of 2020, shortly after edging out Kyle Busch for the Truck Series win at the same …
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 with Richard Petty’s all-time mark of seven championships in the early and mid-1990s. In the other, Wonderboy: Jeff Gordon, the polished and groomed youngster from California whose meteoric rise began …
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 many others in the NASCAR industry, there is the way things were before 2001 and the way things were after it. It’s debatable, but I’d argue that no full season …
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 for the next two decades of competition, thrusting the sport from burgeoning regional underground sport to one of national prominence. Key events, new tracks, personalities and accomplishments help define the …