Looking for the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How behind Sunday’s race? Amy Henderson has you covered with each week with the answers to six race-day questions, covering all five Ws and even the H… the Big Six. Who… gets my shoutout of the race? With a 21.5 average finish, no top 10s previously …
“Wild card.” Fans heard that term, leading up to Sonoma, more than “wine country,” “road course,” or “Boris Said.” It’s a modern reality of the Chase format, designed to give “underdogs their day” at the select few races left where they can actually go out and compete for the win. No longer will a David …
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is lucky he has friends. Two weeks in a row, a driver with Hendrick Motorsports horsepower eased off the throttle and allowed Earnhardt to catch up and clean his front grille by sucking up on their back bumper. The kindness of his competitors kept Earnhardt in the hunt in both races, instead …
Kyle Larson has been turning heads as a Sprint Cup Series rookie this year, nearly taking the win at Fontana earlier this season while remaining solidly in Chase contention. Larson meet with Frontstretch.com’s Tony Lumbis at Pocono Raceway, where the rookie won the ARCA 200 and brought home a fifth place finish in Sunday’s Pocono …
Jamie McMurray was less than sanguine in August, explaining, “We haven’t had a very good year, but our cars haven’t been very fast.”
Two days after leading the first all-day test at Pocono Raceway, Mark Martin and the No. 55 Toyota led the charts Friday afternoon during Cup practice (June 8).
It’s time to look at which drivers should be concerned about their status with their current rides, starting with the ones most likely to be on the move soon.
It was a wild weekend in Talladega and just about every car left the track with some damage. However, it wasn’t just cars that were damaged on Sunday, as poor results in the race damaged the egos of many of today’s frontrunners. Crapshoot or not, Talladega still counts for the same amount of points as any other race and several of the competitors will be happy to cross it off their list until October.
Did You Notice? The end of the road is here for Jeremy Mayfield?
The race at Fontana went by so quickly, Kasey Kahne didn’t even have time to wreck his car (sorry Kahne fans).
Who will emerge above the fray in year two, post Five-Time Dominance?
Note to FOX: Danica Patrick wasn’t in Saturday’s race.
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