Coming off the heels of a very disappointing race this weekend at Indianapolis, it got me thinking of what some of the biggest factors can be to ruining a race for us – the fans. Of course, we’re always unhappy when our driver finishes outside of the top-ten, or even worse, when the driver that we adamently root against wins the race … but, I’m thinking of things beyond that. I’m talking about the actual elements that help give the race a lackluster feel to it. Here goes …
5. Multiple Cautions for Debris – These are obviously a part of …read more

Okay, so they’re actually pretty good friends and probably the furthest thing from being rivals with one another, but still. It’s pretty abnormal for Smoke to run this deep into the season without a Sprint Cup win to show for it, but so far in 2008, he’s managed to do just that. Of course, the racing Gods haven’t really seemed to help Stewart out much in that department, either. What … a pit road speeding violation during the last round of stops at Pocono … the cut tire at Charlotte … the late race wreck at Talladega … the mid-race …read more

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It was announced Thursday that Bruton Smith, company chairman and CEO of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) has purchased Kentucky Speedway, located about midway between Louisville, KY and Cincinatti, OH, for the sum of $78.3 million – the track had originally cost $152 million just to build. Smith was very open from the get-go of the announcement that it was his intent to bring a Sprint Cup Series date to the track – a feat that previous owner, Jerry Carroll of Kentucky Seedway LLC, had been unable to accomplish.
Carroll is currently tied up in …read more

With all of the controversy that Kyle Busch has managed to cause already this year due to his reckless on-track behavior, I thought it would only be fitting to compile a list of his most shining moments … or, rather, his top-ten wrecks. Enjoy!
10. Busch gets spun by Jeff Burton at the finish line as they race for the win at the Sam’s Town 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2007.

9. Kyle Busch sets off “the big one” in the 2006 Aaron’s 499 at Talladega.

8. Richmond wasn’t the first time that Kyle Busch has been involved in an accident …read more

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Richard Childress Racing has announced that their brand new number 33 team – not scheduled to go full-time until the 2009 season – will be fielded in the running of the Coca Cola 600 two weeks from now at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, and that NASCAR veteran driver, Ken Schrader, will attempt to qualify the car for the event.
Schrader was left without a full-time ride when, earlier in the season, BAM Racing announced that they would be taking a sabattical from the sport until the Fall due to sponsorship woes. Since then, …read more

In listening to and reading post-race comment after the running of Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500, you’d never know that Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and Jeff Gordon all finished inside the top-five based on their commentary alone. In what’s turning into an ongoing saga between the race car drivers and Goodyear that started months ago when Goodyear started making tweaks to their tire packages both in an effort to accommodate NASCAR’s “Car of Tomorrow” and also to implement a safer tire for the sport, things really started heating up after a long day ended disastrously for several of NASCAR’s top …read more

Tony Stewart came into this past weekend of NASCAR action riding on as hot of a hand as anyone in the garage as he sat first in the Nationwide Series points standings and third in the Sprint Cup Series.  Lady luck played an evil trick on the man known as “Smoke” and took an ugly turn for the worse … twice.  On lap 138 of the Nationwide Series’ Sam’s Town 300, Stewart – who at the time clearly had one of, if not the, dominant cars in the race – made contact with David Reutimann and the two cars slid …read more

Just hours after Carl Edwards won the UAW Dodge 400 in Las Vegas to garner his second Sprint Cup Series victory in a row, NASCAR inspectors found an issue with his no. 99 Ford in post-race inspections. The issue was that the lid on his oil tank box was off. Earlier in the season at Daytona, NASCAR docked five Nationwide Series teams for their lids being loose.  There’s absolutely no talk about Edwards’ victory in Vegas not standing, nor was the incident sufficient enough to cause him to fail the post-race inspection.  However, each of those five Nationwide teams were …read more

NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series kicked off their first race of March with a bang this Sunday in Sin City when they visited Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the UAW Dodge 400. Heading into the weekend, Kyle Busch and his no. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team was the talk of the town as he came into the race as the series’ points leader and turned in the fastest lap during qualifying to win the Coors Lite Pole Award at his hometown track where he held a current streak of three consecutive top-ten finishes. But, alas, as is the case with so …read more

It was a good news / bad news type of day for most NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers today.  The good news – there were no rain clouds in sight in Las Vegas on Friday, and the series actually got their qualifying event in at the scheduled time. The bad news – Kyle Busch is the hottest driver in the sport, and he’s starting Sunday’s race from the front of the field in front of the hometown crowd.
Busch turned a fast lap of 29.613 seconds in qualifying to earn himself the Coors Lite Pole Award, just 0.125 seconds faster than …read more