Full Throttle: Cinderella’s Slipper Didn’t Fit This Time
Randy Burnett was hoping for a Cinderella story, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
Randy Burnett was hoping for a Cinderella story, but it just wasn’t meant to be.
Dover’s Monster Mile had no mercy for our poll this week, with its slick track and tough tire compound leading to poor finishes for drivers on last week’s list.
Brian France and NASCAR’s suits in Daytona have been preaching expansion outside of the borders of the United States for years. In a very interesting announcement, Foster Gillette announced an agreement with Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Saud, a member of the Saudi Royal Family, that is going to see development of a NASCAR …
The first Chase race is finally behind us, with Mark Martin earning his season-high fifth win of the season in Loudon, N.H.
Phillip Morris came into the last race with a comfortable lead and a second-place finish was enough to wrap up the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series title.
The final weekend in the race for the Chase saw plenty of playoff-worthy drivers put their best foot forward at Richmond. Brian Vickers slipped in, Kyle Busch fell just short… and there were a slew of others in between who made it clear they’ll spend this fall fighting for a season championship. The shuffling of …
NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup, whether you like it or not, is about pitting the best drivers from the given year against each other for the series championship. Based on the points system that is in place today, those drivers are gauged by their consistency throughout the “regular season.” If the driver is good …
The aged surface of Atlanta Motor Speedway offered up multi-groove racing from the drop of the green flag that also yielded some bizarre events, with Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards both having freak problems that knocked them out of contention. Tony Stewart also had another off weekend, which cost him some of his first-place votes …
After Kyle Busch won his 50th NASCAR national touring series race on his 24th birthday back in May, he made the comment that he would like to win 200 races in the top-three divisions of NASCAR. Though Kyle acknowledged it would not equal the accomplishment of Richard Petty winning 200 Cup level races, many people …
Brad Keselowski was the first across the finish line at Talladega earlier this year and seemed to immediately start grousing that he was ready to move up to the Cup level, and was ready to sell himself out to whomever would write the biggest check. Never mind that he was driving for Hendrick Motorsports Nationwide …
The new banking at Bristol, along with the new car, has bred a new form of racing at the old bullring. Single-file bump-and-runs have been replaced by side-by-side competition, with wrecks at the finish line replaced by the type of winning maneuvers you’d be more likely to see at a track like Atlanta or even …
Heading into last week at Bristol, race fans were eagerly anticipating seeing the Whelen Modified Series run around the high banks of the World’s Fastest Half Mile. Qualifying was going to see most if not all of the field run faster than Ryan Newman’s track record 128.709 mph. The race was going to pit the …
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