There’s no doubt that the Chase for the Nextel Cup has had an impact on the way the drivers and teams approach the first 26 races of the season. Yes, everyone would like to win every race, but each team knows that it’s consistency that will ultimately win out.
Take Matt Kenseth for instance. One could [...]
In March of this year I made only my second trek to Bristol Motor Speedway, the famous half-mile bowl of concrete nestled in the hills of northeastern Tennessee. There are many things I will remember about the weekend, but a few stand out from the rest.
1. Kevin Harvick’s comments about Kurt Busch.
2. The snow during [...]
Elliott Sadler will be wearing a different color uniform this weekend. For the first time since 2003, he will don something other than the yellow and brown dominated suit associated with the chocolate candies that ‘melt in your mouth, not in your hand’. This ends a nearly four year relationship with Robert Yates Racing, the [...]
In 2004, it seemed that Jimmie Johnson would earn his first championship. He would have won it, in fact, under the ‘old’ title format that had been in place throughout NASCAR’s modern era.
But that was the year Chairman Brian France instituted the “Chase for the Nextel Cup”, effectively creating a playoff system of sorts.
Since then, [...]
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