All I can say is, “WOW”.  Talk about a melee’ last week at Phoenix.  Not only was there a relative unexpected winner with Kevin Harvick taking the Checkered Flag, but the gloves more than came off, and the “boys have at it” mantra of NASCAR Sprint Cup this season reached a new high, or new [...]

Jimmie Johnson served notice that he was serious about getting his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSC) Championship this year, as he made a classic “Team 48″ victory last week at the Martinsville Speedway, winning from the Pole.   Kyle Busch posted a very good run finishing second, with Kasey Kahne, Aric Almirola, and Clint Bowyer completing [...]

Seems like a long time ago we were at the Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Bank of America 500, even though it was just last Saturday night.  And what a night it was, where Clint Bowyer came home with another win, and where the NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSC) race has tightened even further for the top [...]

Denny Hamlin fulfilled his promise and rocketed into the “serious contender” category for the 2012  NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSC) Championship (for the recap, see my review of the Sylvania 300).  Two races now in the books, and this week we leave the Granite State and the  New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS), making our way to the [...]

Denny Hamlin said it all.  After last week’s Geico 400 at Chicagoland, Denny said, almost guaranteed, that he’d win at Loudon.  And despite the mistake in tire pressure (race rather than qualifying settings) for his qualifying run, putting him 32nd when the Green Flag waved Sunday for the Sylvania 300, he ran through the pack, [...]

And who thought Jimmie Johnson wasn’t going to be a contender?  After winning the Coors Light Pole for the Geico 400, Jimmie Johnson all but dominates the race, then somehow falls short to Brad Keselowski and the Blue Deuce, after a controversial call of Kesolowski “blending” back on the track too early after a late-race [...]

The Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway last Saturday night didn’t disappoint, and left many NASCAR fans heated about whether or not SMI President and CEO Bruton Smith’s attempts to reconfigure the half-mile oval were worth it.  Some said the “Old Bristol” was back; I’m a little skeptical about that.  But either way, last week’s [...]