By Mike Neff

What is it that Mike Neff doesn’t do? The writer, radio contributor and racetrack announcer coordinates the site’s local short track coverage, hitting up Saturday Night Specials across the country while tracking the sport’s future racing stars. The writer for our signature Cup post-race column, Thinkin’ Out Loud (Mondays) also sits down with Cup crew chiefs to talk shop every Friday with Tech Talk. Mike announces several shows each year for the Good Guys Rod and Custom Association. He also pops up everywhere from PRN Pit Reporters and the Press Box with Alan Smothers to SIRIUS XM Radio. He has announced at tracks all over the Southeast, starting at Millbridge Speedway. He's also announced at East Lincoln Speedway, Concord Speedway, Tri-County Speedway, Caraway Speedway, and Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Full Throttle: How Quickly Scott Riggs’s Rising NASCAR Star Can Fade

March 18, 2022July 2, 2007 Mike Neff

It appears as though the star of Scott Riggs is about to take that plunge back to Earth if he is not able to start performing better in his Evernham Motorsports ride.

Busch Series Breakdown: 2007 Camping World 200 at Loudon

March 17, 2022June 30, 2007 Mike Neff

The Camping World 200 started off more like a demolition derby than a Busch Series race.

Full Throttle: Where Did the Old ESPN Go?

March 17, 2022March 5, 2007 Mike Neff

The enthusiasm surrounding the return of ESPN to the sport this season might be a surprise to new fans, but for those that have been around a while, expectations were high for good reason. When no one else was clamoring to put NASCAR on TV back in the 1980s, it was ESPN, then a fledgling …

Full Throttle: Signs of Trouble for Both the NASCAR Busch & Craftsman Truck Series

March 17, 2022February 26, 2007 Mike Neff

California might have served as a wake-up call for NASCAR. The Busch race and the truck race did not have full fields. The second- and third-biggest racing series in the U.S. didn’t have full fields for their races this weekend. The influx of Cup drivers stealing the headlines and the escalating costs of running teams …

Full Throttle: Does a Great Finish Make Up for a Daytona 500?

March 17, 2022February 19, 2007 Mike Neff

The 49th Running of the Daytona 500 is all the buzz around the water coolers this week, as the finish was one of the closest in the history of the event.

Full Throttle: Where Are All the NASCAR Purists Now?

March 16, 2022February 13, 2007 Mike Neff

Whatever their reason, every day that Reiser and Francis are in the garage damages the credibility of NASCAR to enforce their rules fairly.

Full Throttle: NASCAR Cars Going in Circles

March 16, 2022February 5, 2007 Mike Neff

The nuclear winter for racing fans is beginning to thaw. NASCAR testing in both Daytona and Las Vegas gave fans a little taste of some cars on the track in January, and the 24 Hours of Daytona let them see their first real racing action of the season last week. Suddenly, the countdown to 2007 …

Full Throttle: Voices From the Relocated Heartland

March 15, 2022January 31, 2007 Mike Neff

For the race fan that has a desire to see door to door racing on a nearly weekly basis, there has never been that kind of fix in the winter. Enter Arena racing.

Frontstretch Review: Back in the Day DVD, Season #1

March 14, 2022January 14, 2007 Mike Neff

Back in the Day is a look back at the only coverage available to the NASCAR fan in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Back then, the only show available for fans to watch was a half-an-hour program called Car and Track, hosted by Bud Lindemann. The show filmed NASCAR races, condensing them into the …

Best of Full Throttle: Spending Time With 1 of NASCAR’s Pioneers, Janet Guthrie

March 14, 2022January 11, 2007 Mike Neff

This year is the 30th anniversary of one of the first woman drivers in NASCAR, Janet Guthrie, participating in the World 600 (now the Coca-Cola 600).

Full Throttle: Goodbye, Bobby Hamilton

March 14, 2022January 8, 2007 Mike Neff

Bobby Hamilton passed away on Sunday. It brought to a close a short and unfortunately unsuccessful battle with cancer, one of very few battles that Bobby lost during his short life here on this earth. With a laundry list of successes both on and off the track, it’s safe to say the man was a …

2006 NASCAR Driver Review: Martin Truex Jr.

March 14, 2022January 3, 2007 Mike Neff

Martin Truex Jr. saved his best for last. At Homestead in November, Truex led 27 laps and came home a career-best second in the final race of the Cup season.