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(photo courtesy Racin’Today/HHP photo by Harold Hinson) In NASCAR consistency is good, Matt Kenseth knows that for sure, but a race driver must rack up a victory or two from time to time to secure his job and, thus, his future in the sport. Sunday morning all is good in Kenseth’s world . . . → Read More: Consistency Is Good, However…. (workingonmyredneck file photo) It has been slightly more than two years since Matt Kenseth last visited Victory Lane. Saturday night Kenseth dominated the field of the Samsung Mobile 500 leading 169 laps of the 334 lap race at the Texas Motor Speedway. “After two years,” Kenseth said, “I didn’t know if I . . . → Read More: Kenseth Out Guns The Field (photo courtesy Leon Hammack) Carl Edwards dominated the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 by leading 169 laps of the 200 lap race Friday night at the Texas Motor Speedway enroute to his first victory, the Ford Mustang’s first victory, in the Nationwide Series in 2011. “This is a huge night for Mustang and . . . → Read More: Edwards Dominates At Texas (photo courtesy google.com) Racing Surface Oval: 1.5 miles Width: 58 feet (minimum) Turns: 750-foot radius Banking: 24 degrees in turns, five degrees in straightaways Frontstretch: 2,250 feet long Backstretch: 1,330 feet long Pit Road: 45 pit stalls for NASCAR Sprint Cup, 35 pit stalls for the IndyCar Series Seating Information Front Straightaway grandstand: 66 . . . → Read More: Texas Motor Speedway: By The Numbers (photo courtesy John Harrelson/Getty Images) Denny Hamlin came out of “the wild west show” at Ft. Worth Sunday with his six shooters a smokin’ and shot right into the Sprint Cup points lead with just two races left in “The Chase”. Denny Hamlin held off Matt Kenseth in a three lap shootout . . . → Read More: Hamlin Comes Out Of Texas With Guns A-Blazin! (photo courtesy Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images) “Blazingly Bad” Brad Keselowski has finally done something that no other driver has done. “Bad Brad” K. drove the Roger Penske Racing #22 Discount Tire Dodge to a third place and produced the first NASCAR championship for Roger Penske Racing! “It’s hard to give a billionaire something, . . . → Read More: “Blazingly Bad” Brad Delivers For The Captain (photo courtesy IZOD IndyCar Series) On a hot summer Dallas/Ft. Worth Saturday night Ryan Briscoe and Danica Patrick acted like paramedics and breathed life back into their 2010 season. Briscoe had a bad qualifying session at Indianapolis and pounded the turn 4 wall at Indy less that a week ago. However, he . . . → Read More: Briscoe Earns His Spurs
This last weekend was a complete rain-out at Texas Motor Speedway for both the Nationwide and NASCAR Sprint Cup series races. I just waited out the rain delay and we got see some pretty decent racing on Monday. But the thing that caught my eye this weekend was the amount of race accident replays that Fox was airing. On Sunday I tuned in and started to notice why some of my peers diss on NASCAR. With cowboy hats, broken English and an emotionally based reporter, some things seemed more clear today than most. Continue reading Fox Starts Advertising Wrecks, Dissing the Hard Core Fan (photo courtesy Leon Hammack) It has been 155 races since Tony Stewart qualified on the pole for a Sprint Cup race. The last time he sat on the pole for a race was October 2005 at Martinsville. But “Smoke” showed the boys the fast way around The Texas Motor Speedway Friday afternoon! . . . → Read More: Stewart Grabs The Pole At Texas (photo courtesy Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images) You got to hand it to NASCAR the way that they have re-introduced the spoiler back into Sprint Cup racing. NASCAR mandated the spoiler to begin operationally at Martinsville, the slowest track on the schedule. Next was the 1 mile flat Phoenix International Raceway, which is has . . . → Read More: Spoiler’s Next Test: Texas |
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