Waid’s World: Here a Rule Change, There a Rule Change, Everywhere a Rule Change
Atlanta Motor Speedway in July was a different animal nearly 50 years ago.
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Only Yesterday: NASCAR Beginnings & Endings
A look back at some of NASCAR’s greatest — and how their careers both started and ended.
Only Yesterday: Double-Digit Win Seasons Is a Mark of NASCAR’s Elite
Want to be considered one of the best ever? Win 10 or more races in a Cup season.
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.
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.
NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers: The GOATs
Frontstretch kicks off its 75 Greatest NASCAR Drivers list with the cream of the crop: the GOATs.
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 …
Making Sense of Fuzzy Math, Rigged Roofs, and the 48’s Folly
Making Sense of Series Stats With Kevin Harvick’s win Sunday in Las Vegas, his career total of NASCAR wins reached a milestone mark of 100 wins. As a result, the graphs touting the win total along with Kyle Busch at 184, compared to Richard Petty’s 200 Cup Series wins and David Pearson’s 105 wins started …
NASCAR 101: Top 5 Silly Season Moves of All Time
Unlike in most other sports, the term “free agency market” isn’t used in NASCAR. Instead, NASCAR begins “silly season” usually around the halfway mark of the year, and there are much more lame duck drivers and teams than in “stick and ball” sports. There have still been some huge driver transactions in the near 70-year …
The Frontstretch 5: Reasons to Fall For the Lady In Black All Over Again
As NASCAR heads back to Darlington Raceway, finally restored to its rightful place on the Cup schedule after 12 long years without what was once the sport’s longest-running tradition, there are dozens of reasons why the odd-shaped, high-banked oval is one of NASCAR’s true treasures. Here are just a few. 1. If you don’t like …
Frontstretch NASCAR Power Rankings: Top 15 All-Time NASCAR Drivers
The Sprint Cup Series had its final off weekend before the run to Homestead. So we thought it’d be fun to stir the pot a little and ask the question, “who are the top NASCAR drivers of all time?” This question has been debated for many years and the lists are quite different depending on who …
NASCAR 101: Will David Ragan Win as a Sub? 5 Drivers Who Did Just That
David Ragan and Regan Smith have the opportunities of a lifetime: longer-term rides as substitutes in the Sprint Cup Series. Now, that’s certainly true of Ragan, who will fill in for Kyle Busch in the No. 18 for Joe Gibbs Racing for several races until Busch’s recovers from his Daytona injury. Meanwhile, Smith has been …