Holding a Pretty Wheel: NASCAR & the Blue-Collar Edge of Ross Chastain
Last weekend’s NASCAR races at Martinsville showed the career differences between Ross Chastain and Ty Gibbs.
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Holding a Pretty Wheel: NASCAR Can’t Let Stellar Safety Innovation Stop Now
By suspending William Byron for a week and Ty Gibbs for at least that, preferably more, the sanctioning body would have made a huge statement that they aren’t complacent.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: North Wilkesboro Rising
As racetracks across America draw their shutters and fade into the landscape, little North Wilkesboro Speedway rises from the ashes like a Phoenix.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: A Tale of 2 Drivers & NASCAR’s Playoffs
The NASCAR Cup Series playoff reset has a clear winner…and an even clearer loser.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: With a Regular NASCAR Season Like This, Who Needs Playoffs?
The Next Gen car has made 2022 anything but predictable, and suddenly with six races left in the NASCAR Cup regular season, there are 14 winners.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: NASCAR Needs a Little Relief Sometimes
Should NASCAR re-evaluate its rules for relief drivers?
Holding a Pretty Wheel: A Little NASCAR Magic in An Unexpected Place
Racing is many things but good racing isn’t predictable. Most NASCAR races this year are anything but, the best we could hope for in the sport’s Next Gen era.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: NASCAR Next Gen Holds Promise, Questions So Far
What have we learned so far about the Next Gen car, and what questions have arose since its debut?
Holding A Pretty Wheel: That Time NASCAR’s Points System Showed the Playoffs for What They Are
Way back in 2004, NASCAR devised a playoff system with hopes of one thing: attracting a demographic whose attention span, raised on information meted out in colorful bursts, was decidedly shorter than that of the long-term, traditional fans. The sport was riding a high as the water-cooler fad of the moment and wanted the wave …
Holding A Pretty Wheel: NASCAR’s Storybook Scenario Wouldn’t Be a Happy Ending
Saturday night’s (Sept. 18) race at Bristol Motor Speedway marks the final race in the first round of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, and four drivers will be ending their title bids when the checkers fall. Barring a true Hail Mary win, one of those drivers will be Michael McDowell, perhaps the underdog story …
