Who’s Hot/Who’s Not: Outside the Chase after the 2007 Dickies 500 at Texas
Some of the best hopes to snag an upset win at Texas crashed out of contention, showing why this wasn’t the year they proved capable of challenging for a title.
Some of the best hopes to snag an upset win at Texas crashed out of contention, showing why this wasn’t the year they proved capable of challenging for a title.
This week, here’s a sneak peek at what a select few were thinking following the Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
NASCAR handed down some penalties this week. Yeah, that’s nothing new, but this week’s bear a closer look. One, on the surface, seemed consistent in every way with what they have done this year until you take a closer look. The others, or more accurately the lack thereof, should also be raising a few eyebrows. …
6 – number of times Clint Bowyer led the Sylvania 300, the most of any driver.
Three things easily sum up this weekend’s race at California Speedway in Fontana: hot, hot and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Countless Earnhardt fans were on the edge of their seats just waiting to see if one of the drivers at the bottom of the top 12 would slip up, giving their man a chance at making …
The pressure that Dave Blaney had to feel on Friday did not phase the Toyota driver, who posted the 17th-fastest time of the session.
After the final pit stop it was all Denny Hamlin, who marched away from the field and had a five-second lead by the time the checkers fell on the CARFAX 250.
While Tony Stewart was kissing the bricks at Indianapolis for the second time in three years, some drivers almost kissed their Chase hopes goodbye in the wreck-fest that was the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on Sunday. In the first 60 laps of the race, a total of 18 drivers had been involved in at …
Since his outburst about teamwork, or the lack thereof, at Daytona earlier this month, Kyle Busch has been under a microscope that is already on high power as he searches for a new ride for 2008 and beyond. He’s been called a whiner, immature and spoiled. His comments were looked at as childish and jealous. …
There was at least one driver who didn’t sleep through the USG Sheetrock 400 at Chicagoland snooze-fest; that would be Tony Stewart.
Crew chief Mike gave Denny Hamlin two tires during a pit stop with 44 laps to go at Loudon, putting the No. 11 car out front in clean air.
Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 300 will go down in history as the occasion of Toyota’s first Cup pole, achieved by Dave Blaney.
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