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Holding a Pretty Wheel: Is There Loyalty Left in NASCAR?

Sep 3, 2009
There is a trend I’ve noticed in racing lately and I don’t like it. It seems like everywhere you turn, a team is firing a driver for nothing he caused, a fan is picking a new favorite when old number one isn’t winning so much, a sponsor is dropping a prospect for a big name …

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Voices From the Heartland: Looking Back at How Fun NASCAR Was Not That Long Ago – Part 2

Sep 3, 2009
As I continue this little stroll down memory lane, I want to take a moment to comment on some of the comments from yesterday. A couple of readers, who called themselves Todd and Mike, so I will too, said the REAL FUN in NASCAR was back in the days of yore when the likes of …

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Kenny Wallace Driver Diary: Birthdays, the Fans & 800 NASCAR Races Down the Road

Sep 3, 2009
Watkins Glen was the first road race of the year. I always get excited about road courses – I love running them. Our team does the best we can. We don’t go and test, it’s just not in the budget, so I really have to call on my road-racing skills from my early Cup days. …

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Happy Hour: Revisiting NASCAR Predictions From Feb. 2009

Sep 3, 2009
Editor’s Note: Kurt Smith is once again vacationing and shirking his duties at Frontstretch, thinking himself the big shot after a couple of brief radio appearances and whatnot. But as a public service to you the Frontstretch readers, he left us a revisit of an earlier column asking our great writers about the future of …

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Driven to the Past: Harry Hyde – the Short-Track Years

Sep 3, 2009
I’ll have to confess that I don’t know a whole lot about the really early years of Harry Hyde’s racing career. I know that he got into racing after World War II, and I’ve learned that he drove in what we called the “hardtops” at the Jeffersonville Sportsdrome in the late ’40s and early ’50s, …

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Tearing Apart the Trucks: Truck Series Debut at Iowa Speedway

Sep 3, 2009
Saturday night (Sept. 5), Iowa Speedway will host its first ever Camping World Truck Series race.
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Fanning the Flames: Kyle Busch’s New Gibson Guitar Antics

Sep 2, 2009
If you blinked, you missed it… and if I didn’t live in Nashville, I probably would have. As much we like to pile on young Mr. Kyle Busch for his snippiness with reporters, his taunting bows to the crowd after a win or his guitar-smashing antics, we need to give him an “A-atta-boy” for this …

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Thompson in Turn 5: Critics Have it Wrong in Wendell Scott Hall of Fame Debate

Sep 2, 2009
At first glance, when little more than a month ago the NASCAR Hall of Fame 21-member Nominating Committee released its list of 25 candidates eligible for enshrinement into the inaugural Hall of Fame class, it appeared to be a pretty comprehensive list of the sports legends. The committee compiled its list of possible inductees from …

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What’s Vexing Vito: Ousting a Veteran Driver at His Best Track for an Unproven Rookie: Par for the Course in NASCAR

Sep 2, 2009
It was announced this week that 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup champion Bobby Labonte was going to be replaced, in effect, by Roush Fenway Nationwide Series driver Erik Darnell in seven of this year’s final 12 races. It was the latest turn in a saga which saw Labonte start 2009 as the latest wheelman of the …

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Voices From the Heartland: Looking Back at How Fun NASCAR Was Not That Long Ago – Part 1

Sep 2, 2009
Remember when NASCAR used to be fun? After doing this here writing gig for Frontstretch almost six years, I sometimes lose sight of the fact on just how much fun it was, say, five years ago. Nowadays, it seems like we are all just bitchin’ about this and/or that and it really gets mundane after …

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Frontstretch Fantasy Insider: Garnering the Parts to Overhaul Your NASCAR Pre-Chase Roster

Sep 2, 2009
The good news? NASCAR’s Labor Day race weekend has returned to its home… the South. The bad news? We’re racing at Atlanta, not Darlington. That said, buckle your seat belts because the field is going to fly on Sunday night. One of the fastest tracks on the circuit, the gritty asphalt of AMS will be …

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Side by Side: Who Will Make the Chase Cut, Brian Vickers or Kyle Busch?

Sep 1, 2009
Today’s Question: Kyle Busch and Brian Vickers have combined to win the last two Cup races. Which one has the best chance to crack the top 12?
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