Why is the Monster Energy All-Star Race usually a buzzkill? An All-Star event in sports is usually a storied affair, the only day of the year where the best of the best share the same field of play at the same time. Baseball’s All-Star Game is one of the biggest …
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What will come of Bubba Wallace and Richard Petty Motorsports? This weekend’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway marks two years since an incident that changed Bubba Wallace’s life forever. On that Saturday night, Aric Almirola had a horrible accident, breaking the T5 vertabra in his back. …
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Who will be fastest under the new (old?) qualifying format? This week, in what looks to be the series finale of General Qualifying, NASCAR has finally decided to stop pouring Coca-Cola on a bullet wound and has reinstated single-car qualifying. Multi-round qualifying is dead, and group qualifying is done everywhere …
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What will the Smith family offering to buy back shares in SMI mean to NASCAR? This week, news broke that the Smith family, through their privately held Sonic Financial Corporation, have made an offer for the non-Smith held shares in Speedway Motorsports Incorporated. The Smith family, through its privately held …
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What is wrong with the Hall of Fame? The NASCAR Hall of Fame has cracks beginning to form. It’s not a broken institution just yet. None of the 50 inductees by this point have been unworthy of selection. It has been a decent mix of stat guys and inductees who …
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Is NASCAR dying? One of the big talking points this week when it comes to NASCAR has been the “terrible” attendance that Bristol Motor Speedway saw last week for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Bristol, a track that has a listed seating capacity of 162,000, had at best …
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What, exactly, are we about to see at Bristol? The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend sounds like it’s either going to be a complete disaster or a fantastic success. With the new high downforce rules package in place along with an increase of …
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1. How much of a success was the NASCAR schedule shake-up? This past week, NASCAR revealed the 2020 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule. It’s the most dramatic shift to the Cup Series slate in almost 50 years. The 2020 schedule brings a number of changes, both experimental and seemingly …
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Should some of Richard Petty’s wins be taken away? Ever since Kyle Busch won NASCAR race number 200, there’s been a slew of talk online comparing this accomplishment to Richard Petty’s 200 Cup Series wins. This column is not going to get into that this week, because it already covered …
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Who will be inducted into the 2020 NASCAR Hall of Fame Class? Wednesday evening (March 13), NASCAR formally announced the 20 nominees for next year’s NASCAR Hall of Fame class. 14 nominees return from last year, while Kirk Shelmerdine, who won four Cup championships as crew chief for Dale Earnhardt …
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