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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Going into last week’s Federated Auto Parts 400, we knew that nine of the ten Chase contenders were locked in.  What we didn’t know, was if Tony Stewart would hold his tenth-place spot, and who the Wild Card drivers would be.  Tony Stewart needed a strong finish to remain in tenth, and a handful of [...]