2011 NASCAR Driver Review: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Earnhardt’s true best moment of the season again involved Kevin Harvick, but it was in the spring race at Martinsville.
Earnhardt’s true best moment of the season again involved Kevin Harvick, but it was in the spring race at Martinsville.
Last year, Kyle Busch was the first to sweep all three national touring series races in a single race weekend. That’s just one small bullet point on a list of firsts.
There are stories printed most every week about the downfall of the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the lack of talent that is being developed for the future of the Cup Series. The Cup interlopers are always harangued for taking away the seats that young drivers could be filling and accumulating experience towards running at the …
Brian Vickers’s limited schedule didn’t offer many opportunities for a high point in 2010, but his final race in the seat of the No. 83 ride was certainly his best.
Elliott Sadler scored a pole at Texas but failed to lead a single lap. Instead, his high point was the second Michigan race in August, when he led four circuits and bagged his only top-10 finish of the season.
With 36 points races and 41 weeks on the calendar, the extensive NASCAR Cup season finally came to its long-awaited conclusion at Homestead, Fla. Denny Hamlin had the championship in hand; all he needed to do was finish ahead of Jimmie Johnson and the Sprint Cup trophy was finally his for the taking. But that …
Sunday saw Jimmie Johnson add to his page in the history books by winning his fifth consecutive championship. One more year of domination by the No. 48 team will double the number of championships anyone in the Cup series has ever won consecutively. Most people would sit back after such an amazing accomplishment and take …
The penultimate round of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season is now complete. Denny Hamlin dominated the Phoenix event, but a long green-flag run at the end combined with poor fuel mileage for the No. 11 Toyota conspired to relegate Hamlin to a 12th-place finish. Carl Edwards, on the other hand, was able to squeeze out …
The NASCAR Sprint Cup racing season is the longest of any sport outside of golf, although the guys who chase the little white balls around those fields don’t compete in all of the events.
Texas Motor Speedway became Denny Hamlin’s personal playground on Sunday, when he unseated Jimmie Johnson from the top spot in the standings for the first time this late in the season since 2005. Johnson was plagued with pit road issues, which led to the No. 24 team moving over to pit him – a move …
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