So far this season, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rookie Danica Patrick has won $1,203,699. There are failures, we suppose, and there are failures. Patrick threatened to make fools of her critics with her levelheaded performance at the Daytona 500 season opener, with her pole-position start and [...]
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The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will take a week off from points racing to reward its All-Star drivers. Saturday night will be the 29th running of the Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Jeff Gordon is tied with Jimmie Johnson for the most Sprint All-Star [...]
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If there was one person who best embodies the “bring me back the trophy or the steering wheel” attitude surrounding Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, it would be Kyle Busch. Busch, will drive the No. 18 SNICKERS Bites Toyota Camry Saturday [...]
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I think you can safely say the new NASCAR Sprint Cup Generation-6 car tamed the track Saturday night at Darlington Raceway. Obviously, you have to put Matt Kenseth in that same category, as well. For any driver, winning the Southern 500 is huge. Kenseth was so [...]
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It’s time for Power Rankings! After every race, we’ll opine about who we think is at the top of the Sprint Cup heap and how and why they got there. Remember, this isn’t scientific, as our formula is the perfect blend of analytics and bias against [...]
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NASCAR has suspended two crewmen for violation of its substance abuse policy and penalized another two crewmen for improper aerodynamic changes to their Nationwide Series car. Jackson L. (Lee) Dodson II, a Sprint Cup crewman for Clint Bowyer at Michael Waltrip Racing, was found in violation [...]
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In the days between last Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway and Saturday night’s event at Darlington Raceay, Kyle Busch has repeatedly stressed that he has nothing but respect and admiration for fellow driver Kasey Kahne. He reportedly told Kahne that by way of a [...]
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Spend any time around Brad Keselowski and two things become readily apparent: First, the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion is a passionate and thoughtful student of the sport’s history. Second, he has some strong and interesting opinions. Keselowski, currently seventh in the Sprint Cup points [...]
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Reaching 700 starts is big in NASCAR. If you’ve made it to that number of races (especially consecutively like Jeff Gordon), you’ve no doubt had a storied career. And when you mark that 700th start by getting another top-5, to reach 300 top-5s in your 700 [...]
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Matt Kenseth has been compared to NASCAR Hall of Famer David Pearson more than once in his career for the way he lays back, saves his car and then comes on strong at the end. He certainly resembled him Saturday at a track where nobody has [...]
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