1. NASCAR Coronavirus Postponements Make History The NASCAR coronavirus decision Monday (March 16) to postpone stock car racing for two months is unprecedented. It’s just the second time this century a NASCAR Cup Series race has been pushed back outside of weather delays. And after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the sport took …
Did You Notice? … It’s been 19 years since we lost Dale Earnhardt Sr. on February 18, 2001? Ryan Newman’s wreck in the 2020 Daytona 500 brought back the PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) of that nightmare across America. It’s easy to forget an entire generation of race fans never experienced Earnhardt’s death. But for those who …
Read moreDid You Notice?: Ryan Newman Rewrites A NASCAR Nightmare… 19 Years Later
For the first time since 2004, the President of the United States has attended a NASCAR event. President Donald Trump landed at Daytona Beach International Airport, then drove his motorcade on the racetrack before addressing the crowd and giving the command to start engines for the 62nd annual Daytona 500. Trump’s Air Force One brought …
Read morePresident Donald Trump Addresses Crowd, Starts Engines For 62nd Daytona 500
Noah Gragson took his lumps during a winless rookie season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. But it took just one race at Daytona International Speedway to ensure that wouldn’t become a sophomore slump. Gragson’s first NXS win came in Saturday’s (Feb. 15) 2020 NASCAR Experience 300 at Daytona. He took the checkered flag under caution …
Read moreNoah Gragson, JR Motorsports Roll To 2020 Daytona NASCAR Xfinity Series Victory
Grant Enfinger won the 2019 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series regular season points title. But he never could win a race, failing to advance past the first round of the playoffs. He entered Friday’s (Feb. 14) season opener at Daytona International Speedway winless since September 2018 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Not anymore. …
Read moreGrant Enfinger Holds Off Jordan Anderson To Win 2020 NASCAR Truck Series Opener
William Byron and his Chevrolet cohorts saw Joey Logano waltz to victory in Thursday’s (Feb. 13) first Bluegreen Vacations Duel at Daytona International Speedway. Fords took the top four spots in that one.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was the fastest Chevrolet in Thursday’s (Feb. 13) first 2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duel at Daytona. Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney caused the race’s only caution. But Joey Logano blasted by both of them, using a push from Aric Almirola to forge to the front and win the first Daytona 500 qualifying race. …
Read moreJoey Logano, Fords Forge to the Front in First 2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duel
Did You Notice? … NASCAR remains an aging demographic? At a time when all sports are trying to retain that crucial audience of 18-to-34-year-olds, getting younger remains racing’s biggest challenge. As recently as 2017, 57% of NASCAR TV viewers were over the age of 55. In the sport’s championship finale that year, just 22% of viewers …
Read moreDid You Notice? The Key to NASCAR 2020: Looking Fetch
Erik Jones spent most of the 2020 Busch Clash languishing outside the draft after missing his pit box. Then, as the laps wound down, he was a pinball in multiple wrecks. But when the curtain closed on NASCAR’s season-opening exhibition turned Demolition Derby, Jones was somehow the last man standing. Jones crossed the finish line …
Read moreErik Jones Wins NASCAR Demolition Derby Turned 2020 Busch Clash
New team for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.? No problem. The former restrictor plate ace continued his strength Sunday (Feb. 9) at Daytona and Talladega while putting his car on the pole for the 2020 Daytona 500. Stenhouse spent much of the session as much as a half-second faster than the rest of the field before some …
Read moreRicky Stenhouse Jr. Earns Pole Position For 2020 Daytona 500
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