Week 3 in the Sprint Cup series sees the haulers head northeast across the California/Nevada border to the hometown of the Busch brothers, Las Vegas. Vegas is a progressively banked, one and a half mile D-shaped oval track, that is part of one of the better overall facilities the series visits. About a quarter of [...]
NASCAR followed up a non-eventful finish to the Daytona 500 with another non-eventful finish in California, with Matt Kenseth winning his second straight race to open the 2009 season. Maybe he needs ‘vanilla’ to go to Victory Lane? The boring ‘finishes’ seem to be working for him. Kenseth won the race off pit road in the [...]
The spectacle that is Daytona is over and the haulers should be getting to the west coast, in preparation for what most would argue is the real season. Superspeedway races are a huge crapshoot, and aren’t usually a true measure of a teams strength. The Auto Club 500 is the race that begins to give [...]
Well that was interesting, and I must admit, a bit of a letdown. It was good to see the Cat in the Hat finally get a Daytona victory after so many tries, but very dissatisfying as a fan that the race ended in rain, and not a sprint to the line. I was pulling for Allmendinger [...]
Finally! After a long and very interesting off-season, the NASCAR world has descended upon Daytona Beach for the biggest race on the schedule. Trying to keep up with who is driving for who, sponsored by whom, was enough to make your head spin over the winter. Fortunately that’s all in the rear-view mirror now, and [...]
