2011 NASCAR Driver Review: David Ragan
David Ragan scored his first career Sprint Cup Series victory in July’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway in his 163rd start.
David Ragan scored his first career Sprint Cup Series victory in July’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway in his 163rd start.
You get one guess at this one. Trevor Bayne’s fast Ford and his tandem-drafting skills made him the toast of Daytona Beach before the green flag for the Daytona 500 dropped.
Hendrick Motorsports played crew chief musical chairs this offseason, giving Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin a breath of fresh air. Will any of the three benefit from the arrangement, and if Junior struggles again, do you expect him to leave the Hendrick camp a year early?
Today’s Season Preview Topic: While the NASCAR Nationwide Series eliminated Cup full-timers from championship contention this year, they stopped short of keeping them from running the full schedule. Do you expect them to do so when all is said and done, and with no rookies or new teams on the horizon are these moves too late for the series to survive over the long-term?
With zero wins or top-five finishes, finding a high point in David Ragan’s season is tough.
Bill Elliott and the Wood Brothers race team qualified a surprising fourth at Homestead-Miami Speedway, hung around in the lead pack for most of the race, and then fought valiantly (almost defiantly) with points contender Denny Hamlin to keep the 14th position, before giving it up just before the checkered flag.
In case you haven’t heard, Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 Lowe’s team won the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup championship on the strength of a second-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Sunday’s Ford 400 – his fifth straight. And while the ESPN crew and pillars of the media that cover NASCAR release stories lacing him …
10. Pulverize a water bottle before and after the race.
He’s talented. He’s fiery. He may be his own worst enemy. There are many adjectives to describe Kyle Busch, the 25-year-old driver of the No. 18 M&M’s Toyota, who absolutely shot himself in the foot, then chopped it off, salted it, cooked and ate the nasty appendage during Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor …
10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. donated $12,000 to Nancy Pelosi. He knows lost causes when he sees them.
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