Race Weekend Central

Stop Making Excuses: IndyCar Needs to Enclose the Cockpit

Indycar 2015 St. Pete Will Power On Track Credit Shawn Gritzmacher

(Photo: Shawn Gritzmacher/INDYCAR)

Editor’s Note: Are you receiving the FREE Frontstretch newsletter? If you’re not, you’re missing out on great, exclusive content like this one from S.D. Grady, Mark Howell, John Potts and more! Click here to sign up and see what you’re missing! NOTE: Bad link has been fixed. At first, it just looked like one of a …

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Buddy Baker: The Voice of NASCAR in the ’90s

2015 Nascar Buddy Baker Car Credit Isc Archive Via Getty Images

(Photo: ISC Archive via Getty Images)

Editor’s Note: Are you receiving the FREE Frontstretch newsletter? If you’re not, you’re missing out on great, exclusive content like this one from S.D. Grady, Mark Howell, John Potts and more! Click here to sign up and see what you’re missing! Monday morning. Caffeine. Work looming in my way. Checking the usual social media and crap…Buddy …

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Trick Me Once…When the NASCAR Gods Keep an Eye Out For Safety

2015 Pocono 1 Cup Jeb Burton Car Credit Anthony Lumbis Sr.

(Photo: Anthony Lumbis, Sr., Frontstretch)

Lady Luck certainly made herself known this past weekend at Pocono. How else would Matt Kenseth have snared his second win of the year? All kidding aside, there was an inordinate amount of déjà vu and serendipity that played out on pit road throughout the weekend. It was a bit like the racing gods were …

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All the Pretty Lights: The All-Star Magic Show

2015 Charlotte Showdown Green Flag Credit Nascar Via Getty Images

(Photo: NASCAR via Getty Images)

Editor’s Note: Are you receiving the FREE Frontstretch newsletter? If you’re not, you’re missing out on great, exclusive content like this one from S.D. Grady, Mark Howell, John Potts and more! Click here to sign up and see what you’re missing! Ooh! Shiny. As easily distracted humans, it doesn’t take a whole lot to turn our …

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No Place Is Safe at the Track – Keep It In Mind

2015 Talladega I Cup Austin Dillon Fire Credit Nascar Via Getty Images

(Photo: NASCAR via Getty Images)

Editor’s Note: Are you receiving the FREE Frontstretch newsletter? If you’re not, you’re missing out on great, exclusive content like this one from S.D. Grady, Mark Howell, John Potts and more! Click here to sign up and see what you’re missing! Pit road is a hazardous place, there’s no denying it. Cars slam on their brakes, …

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Friday Faceoff: Phantom Debris, Toyota’s Tough Start & Truck Series Youth at Martinsville

2015 Fontana Cup Denny Hamlin Matt Kenseth Racing Credit Nascar Via Getty Images

(Photo: NASCAR via Getty Images)

1) Much has been said already about the debris cautions during last weekend’s Auto Club 400. Give it to us straight: is NASCAR in the right or the wrong? Kevin Rutherford, Managing Editor: No doubt: NASCAR has made some questionable calls in years past when it comes to throwing the caution vs. not throwing the …

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Kurt Busch Back in the Driver’s Seat: It’s What NASCAR Had to Do

Busch, Driscoll

(Photo: FOX Sports)

Kurt Busch is reinstated to NASCAR and the No. 41 effective immediately. The District Attorney in Delaware hasn’t found sufficient evidence to file any charges against him regarding the incident that occurred last November at Dover. NASCAR’s experts in the field of behavioral healthcare have deemed Busch healthy enough to return to competition. The sport’s …

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Waiting For The NASCAR Season To Start? So Am I

2015 Las Vegas Cup Jeff Gordon Credit Nascar Via Getty Images

(Photo: NASCAR via Getty Images)

Editor’s Note: S.D. Grady runs her weekly, Tuesday Fan’s View column inside our FREE Frontstretch Newsletter. Her latest edition of 2015 is a special preview we’ve also posted on the website. Harvick won Vegas. It’s about time! While he is our reigning champ, he still doesn’t appear in Victory Lane often enough for us to be tired …

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Fixing a SNAFU: NASCAR Style

2015 Atlanta Cup Joey Logano Pole Credit Nascar Via Getty Images

(Credit: Getty Images)

Editor’s Note: S.D. Grady runs her weekly, Tuesday Fan’s View column inside our FREE Frontstretch Newsletter. Her latest edition of 2015 is a special preview we’ve also posted on the website. In the locked offices near Daytona: “Look boys, it wasn’t enough for cars and trucks to be wrecked out of knockout qualifying at Daytona. It just …

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Can Anything Justify the Cost of Running at Daytona?

2015 Daytona I Cup Jeff Gordon Car Credit Yvonne Leonard

(Credit: Yvonne Leonard)

Was the Daytona 500 a great race? Well, I wouldn’t go and give it a six-pack. Maybe four brews. However, I did not walk out of the living room at the end of the day angry with the existence of the 2 1/2 mile superspeedway, as has become my habit every February and July. While …

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Jeff Gordon: A Driver From the Past, A NASCAR Personality for the Future

2014 Dover Ii Cup Jeff Gordon Champagne Cia

(Photo: CIA Stock Photography)

Editor’s Note: S.D. Grady will return with her weekly, Tuesday Fan’s View column inside our FREE Frontstretch Newsletter. Her first edition of 2015 is a special preview we’ve also posted on the website. Jeff Gordon will be departing from his iconic No. 24 at the end of the 2015 season. I’m sure you’ve heard. Since …

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