There’s not an event throughout the 36-race Sprint Cup schedule where NASCAR’s begrimed top-35 rule doesn’t loom over the landscape like King Kong perched atop the Empire State Building.
It smells about that bad, too.
But as the 2009 season creeps toward Race 6 at Martinsville—the first event where the current year’s owners’ points will be used to set the 35 guaranteed starting positions…. Details
This was supposed to be the year when there were going to be acres of empty seats at our NASCAR Sprint Cup race. The economies, both national and local, are like a set of Goodyears that badly needs changing. You can see clear down to the steel belts.
Sellout? No way. Ten days ago, speedway officials said ticket sales were down 15 to 20 percent. Which really means 25 to 30 percent. This economy is killing us, they said. Plus.
Five years after making his Sprint Cup Series debut at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch captured perhaps the biggest victory of his young career at his hometown track – doing so in impressive style.
Busch drove from the rear of the field to win Sunday’s Shelby 427. The Las Vegas native was credited as the race’s first winner from the pole, but an engine change forced him to start from the back…Â Details
Jamie McMurray during the NASCAR race in Las Vegas yesterday.  McMurray makes a great save to keep his car off the wall and pointed in the right direction. Several of the NASCAR commentators said this was the finest job of car control they had ever seen. Let’s see a Drifting competition where someone goes sideways this far, at 180+ mph and “under control.”