Frontstretch Best seat at the track, best view on the web! Ryan Blaney will carry new colors in the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series. National auto parts retailer Advance Auto Parts will sponsor Blaney and his No. 12 Team Penske Ford Mustang in select races throughout the 2020 season, Blaney announced Thursday, Nov. 21. Advance Auto Parts currently serves as the title …
Read More »The 12: NASCAR Power Rankings Bluegreen Vacations 500 Edition
It was do-or-die for Denny Hamlin at ISM Raceway last Sunday (Nov. 10), but the 38-year-old survived to claim a coveted spot in the Championship 4. Nearly a decade after his promising 2010 championship run and subsequent postseason collapse, can Hamlin finally find the keys to the championship trophy? Can …
Read More »The Big 6: Questions Answered After the 2019 Bluegreen Vacations 500
Who… should you be talking about after the race? Back Denny Hamlin into a corner, and he’ll roll right over. Before now, that was a common assessment of the veteran driver and not entirely unfounded. In 2010, Hamlin finished a career-high second in points, but he entered the last race of that …
Read More »Denny Hamlin Dominates in Phoenix, Earns Spot in NASCAR Championship 4
Denny Hamlin entered the Bluegreen Vacations 500 at ISM Raceway 20 points away from making the Championship 4. Conventional wisdom was he needed a win in Phoenix to advance to Homestead. Hamlin left nothing to chance. The driver of the No. 11 Toyota outright dominated Sunday (Nov. 10), taking the …
Read More »Thinkin’ Out Loud: 2019 AAA Texas 500
The Headline(s): Capitalizing on a “trimmed out” car that Stewart-Haas Racing has been storing since the spring, Kevin Harvick turned a pole-winning run into a race-winning performance at Texas Motor Speedway. He led 119 laps en route to scoring his fourth win of 2019, 49th career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup …
Read More »Odds & Ends Around the Track: Everything’s Bigger in Texas Edition
Everything is bigger in Texas, and nobody finds more ways to entertain NASCAR fans than Eddie Gossage at Texas Motor Speedway. In the NFL, they talk about coaches being from either the Bill Belichick or the Sean McVay coaching trees. In racetrack promotion, they talk about the Humpy Wheeler promotion …
Read More »The 12: NASCAR Power Rankings First Data 500 Edition
Martin Truex Jr. sure knows how to dominate a race. At Martinsville Speedway, Truex led 464 out of 500 contested laps to earn his seventh victory of the season and a spot in the Championship Four. With a one out of four shot at claiming his second championship, is Truex …
Read More »5 Points to Ponder: 2019 NASCAR Playoffs All Chalk
ONE: NASCAR Playoffs All Chalk Martinsville Speedway marked the start of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Round of 8. Just two more races remaining until we have our Championship 4 lineup for Homestead-Miami Speedway. So far, Cinderella has yet to find a glass slipper. The theory going into …
Read More »Who’s Hot & Who’s Not in NASCAR: Please Staple, Don’t Paper Clip
Martinsville Speedway is the oldest track on the NASCAR circuit, but lately the tracks uniqueness has been entirely flattened by awful racing throughout the pack, marked by an inability to pass and one driver pulverizing the rest of the field. In this case, a snoozer of a race resulted in …
Read More »Ryan Blaney Stays in the Game with Top 5 at Martinsville
Ryan Blaney‘s statistics at Martinsville Speedway are stellar. He backed that up in Sunday’s (Oct. 27) First Data 500. Blaney began the 500-lap race from sixth and quickly moved forward. Over the course of the opening 130 circuits, the No. 12 car jumped to third, earning eight stage points. For …
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