NASCAR 101: Las Vegas a Past Springboard to Season-Long Success
Drivers who do well at Las Vegas sometimes win the NASCAR championship at the end of the season.
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NASCAR 101: A Brief History of Auto Club Speedway
Or as it was once called, California Speedway.
NASCAR 101: A Menagerie of Unknowns, Potential Surprises at Daytona
Things couldn’t be more nebulous to begin the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season.
NASCAR 101: Who Didn’t Return to NASCAR in 2021?
A smaller crop of drivers who raced on the national NASCAR stage in 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, equals an altogether more diminutive list of racers who didn’t return to a NASCAR national series in 2021. And of those who didn’t return, some were, as always, expected. Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Matt Kenseth …
NASCAR 101: Chip Ganassi Racing in NASCAR Through the Years
As of the checkered flag at Phoenix Raceway in November, the NASCAR operation at Chip Ganassi Racing will cease to exist. On June 30, Trackhouse Racing Team, which joined the sport this season with Daniel Suarez behind the wheel, announced it had purchased the entirety of CGR’s NASCAR assets, effective the end of the 2021 …
NASCAR 101: Doubleheader Weekends, Past & Present
Doubleheader weekends are not a new idea when it comes to motorsports. It’s not even a new idea when it comes to NASCAR. However, regarding the nation’s most popular motorsport, the idea of running two races in one weekend at the same track is something NASCAR has only recently decided to undertake. This weekend at …
NASCAR 101: Lone Star All-Star Race Breakdown
Everything thing is bigger in Texas, and the All-Star Race is no exception. For the 2021 edition of the race, drivers will need to duel on the track with several random draws that could affect the outcome of the race. Georgia’s boy Chase Elliott will look to go back-to-back in the All-Star Race with different …
NASCAR 101: Hall-of-Fame Winners at Sonoma
Sonoma Raceway is not a track that dates way back to the early stages of the NASCAR’s history, but that does not mean that some of the most legendary drivers in the history of the sport have not enjoyed a high level of success there. In fact, eight drivers that have been inducted into the …
NASCAR 101: 1st-Time Winners in the Coca-Cola 600
The Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the longest race of the NASCAR Cup Series season, has crowned seven first-time winners since the first running in 1960. The race, no matter the era, tends to throw some nice surprises in the form of late-race pit stop strategy or by being in position for the win …
NASCAR 101: Analyzing the Circuit of the Americas With Tyler Reddick
After opening in Oct. 21, 2012, Circuit of the Americas, or COTA, adds to its motorsports history when it hosts its inaugural NASCAR race weekend May 22-23, 2021. As the third-largest track on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule, trailing the 4.048-mile Road America road course and Daytona International Speedway’s 3.61-mile road course layout, the 3.41-mile, …