The Finish Line

Race Re-Caps: Kasey “Kahne-whips” Pocono

In our first week of T-N-T coverage, no less than race car driver-turned-analyst Kyle Petty came up with the perfect analogy of the race at Pocono, referring to today’s event as a “pitcher’s duel”- to borrow a baseball term. I gotta tell ya, I caught myself wondering how other NASCAR fans felt about this race, given [...]

Fearless Forecast: Picking Pocono- Look For Someone Different

Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards, with 7 victories between them, it would seem to be the obvious picks for this race. Not this time. Based on what I’ve seen so far, I look for a different kind of race and a different kind of result. Breaking development: Kyle Busch brushed the wall on pit road this [...]

Pull Those Belts Tight! (Race Preview) The “Bermuda Triangle” Edition

Up Next: The Pocono 500, Sunday, June 8, 2008 at Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Green flag: 2 p.m. EDT, 11 a.m. PDT. Broadcast: TNT- TV with Bill Weber, Wally Dallenbach & Kyle Petty. Radio Broadcast on MRN & Sirius Satellite Radio. Track Facts- The first race ran here on August 4, 1974. Richard Petty took the checkered [...]

NASCAR Stocks (Power Rankings): Sadler Shakes It Up

I’m quite sure this is notoriety that Elliott Sadler would rather live without. Without meaning to, the driver for Gillett Evernham has muddled our “Top 10″ by initiating a crash at Dover that wadded up 6 of the top 12 point getters in the 2008. For my part, it will be hard to hold that [...]

“Road To Glory” Update: Overcoming Obstacles In Marysville

Before the formation of NASCAR, each race track and organization did things as they saw fit. Not only did you have race promoters running off with the purse, there was no real sense of cohesiveness and consistency. One thing we can thank the France family for is the fact that there is an over-arching governing body to market [...]

Road To Glory: Teamwork In The Family Garage

(No results from May 31st to report. For the second week in a row, racing was rained out at the Southern Oregon Speedway. Reports are the pits are a muddy mess). It’s a family as all-American as their name. I had the opportunity recently to meet the Jones family in the shop at their home just outside Central Point, [...]

Race Re-Cap: Muscle On The Monster Mile

I’m honestly not sure that big wreck on lap 18 really did much to affect the outcome of today’s race. Today’s real contenders were nowhere near this mess as it seemed that before we even got here, the race at Dover was about the Roush-Fenway Racing team, the old guard at Hendrick Motorsports, and the [...]

Sorenson with one foot out at Ganassi

After Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates made former open wheeler Juan Pablo Montoya when they fired his crew chief, Jimmy Elledge, against his request just a couple of weekends to go. With Silly Season getting sillier, there is now speculation that Juan Pablo may make the move to Joe Gibbs Racing if Tony Stewart decides [...]

Fearless Forecast: Empire Strikes Back

It just seems like certain TEAMS own certain race tracks. It’s kind of odd how it works that way. I mean you expect certain drivers to have a particularly good feel for certain surfaces and distances. Jeff Gordon does very well on the short tracks and road courses. Bobby Labonte has 6 of his 21 [...]

NASCAR Buzz: Denny, Kez and advice from Harv and Jr.

There’s never a dull moment in the world of NASCAR. I’m really starting to get the feeling that Smoke really is going to leave JGR, that Gibbs is looking hard for his replacement (and they have someone in mind), and that NASCAR really can be as capricious as some fans accuse them of being. On [...]