So maybe I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, talking about Jimmie Johnson and his continued success as we get through the final laps of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSC) season, as he tamed the Wild Asphalt Circus in his win at Texas in the AAA Texas 500, leading 168 of the 334 [...]

The Talladega Superspeedway (TSS) is one of my favorite tracks in NASCAR.  Some of the more recent races turned into nothing but high-speed parade laps, at least when NASCAR changed the rules and had a lot of restrictor plate variations, or when it was nothing but tw0-car tandem racing of the “Talladega Two-Step” (BORING!!).   The [...]

Brad Keselowski, who served notice just a few weeks ago that he was up for the challenge and the NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSC) Challenge, surprised many last week, coming home with the trophy at Dover in the AAA 400.  Brad took the NSC points lead, letting the rest of the top six or seven (really [...]

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, [...]

The hallowed ground of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) didn’t disappoint last week in the NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSC) Crown Royal Presents the Curtis Shaver 400, the 20th race of the 2012 NSC season.  Jimmie Johnson, stalking (and perhaps struggling) through the early parts of the season, put on quite a show, taking his fourth Checkered Flag at [...]

Demolition was the word at last week’s Coke Zero 400 at the Daytona International Speedway, as race fans got to see not only a not-so “big one”, a true “big one”, but also a Checkered Flag “big one”, as Tony Stewart breezed to the win after starting way back in the forty-second position.  One could [...]