Numbers Game: 2009 Auto Club 500 at Fontana
3 – Number of times winner Matt Kenseth led the Auto Club 500 Sunday.
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Matt McLaughlin’s Thinkin’ Out Loud: 2009 Fontana Spring Race Recap
The Key Moment: Matt Kenseth’s crew was flawless all night at Fontana, getting him off pit road first on the final sequence of pit stops. …
10 Points to Ponder: 2009 Auto Club 500 at Fontana Edition
Kenseth Proves Daytona Wasn’t Luck Several fans had a bitter taste in their mouth about the ending of the Daytona 500 last week – and …
Great Pit Work Guides Matt Kenseth to 2nd Straight Victory in 2009 Auto Club 500 at Fontana
For years, it seems, Matt Kenseth’s pit crew, affectionately known as the “Killer Bees,” has been considered to be the best pit crew in the …
Happy Hour: What’s Left to Be Said About the Daytona 380
As is all in a week’s work for the Official Columnist of NASCAR, I watched, I listened, and I read what people had to say …
Frontstretch Fantasy Insider: Surviving (& Staying Awake) at Fontana
With the glitz and glamour of Daytona now behind us, the focus of the Sprint Cup Series turns west to Fontana and the 2-mile oval …
Mirror Driving: Daytona Disappointment, Yellow Line Disgust, & is Kenseth a Hall of Famer?
The Daytona 500 had several controversial moments, but the biggest was the race being shortened by over 100 miles due to rain. Did NASCAR do the right thing by starting at the scheduled time, or should the green flag have been moved up so that the entire race could be run?
Frontstretch NASCAR Power Rankings: Top 15 After the 2009 Daytona 500
Like it or not, after just 380 miles the first race of the 2009 Sprint Cup season is officially in the books. Matt Kenseth was crowned the winner of just the fourth rain-shortened Daytona 500 in history, taking the lead one lap before the weather with a generous push from runner-up Kevin Harvick. But was that last-lap pass enough to leave Kenseth number one in the eyes of our staff this week? After all, Kyle Busch dominated the race, only to become an innocent victim of the day’s big wreck on lap 125. And where did AJ Allmendinger land after starting the year with a career-best third – driving for a team that doesn’t even know if it’ll exist two months from now? Find these answers, and more, by examining our first Top-15 Power Rankings poll of the year.
Who’s Hot/Who’s Not in Sprint Cup: 2009 Daytona 500
Some teams came out of the block strong following good runs in Sunday’s Daytona 500. Due to the nature of restrictor-plate racing, fate can play …
Running Their Mouth: 2009 Daytona 500
This week, here’s a sneak peek at what a select few were thinking following the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.