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NASCAR: Kentucky Speedway Preview
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Quaker State 400 Location: Sparta, Ky. Specs: 1.5-mile tri-oval; Banking/Turns: 14°; Banking/Tri-oval: 8°; Banking/Backstretch: 4° Race Length: 400 miles/267 laps ...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, Kentucky Speedway

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Kevin Harvick  Harvick’s 2011 season is beginning to resemble his 2010 campaign. The new points leader rides consistency to the top spot with a few wins thrown in...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Delivering in Daytona
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup season has been the year of first-time winners. Trevor Bayne stunned the sport with an unlikely win in the Daytona 500. Regan Smith followed suit a...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Big Picture Issues
NASCAR by Tom Bowles Is NASCAR’s glass half-empty or half-full? As the sport gathers for its traditional version of the halfway mark — Daytona’s spectacle under the lights this Fourth of Ju...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, NASCAR Popularity

NASCAR: Coke Zero 400 Preview
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Location: Daytona Beach, Fla. Specs: 2.5-mile tri-oval; Banking/Turns: 31°; Banking/Tri-oval: 18°; Banking/Backstretch: 3° 2010 Winners: Jamie McMurray (Feb.) and Ke...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Carl Edwards  Edwards and crew did what a championship-laden team is supposed to do as it continues to build steam: Stay above the fray and bring it home clean with...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Silly Season Scenarios
NASCAR by Vito Pugliese With news that Red Bull Racing is ending it’s five-year run in the Sprint Cup Series at season’s end, the Chase chatter that typically becomes the matter of obsession durin...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Road Course
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro The Infineon Raceway’s annual NASCAR Sprint Cup date has seen its share of aggression the last few seasons. And Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 was no different, with a num...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Infineon Raceway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro and Nathan Rush Location: Sonoma, Calif. Specs: 12-turn, 1.99-mile road course Coverage: Sunday, June 26; TNT (3:00 p.m. EST) 2010 Winner: Jimmie Johnson 2011 Rac...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR By Matt Taliaferro 1. Carl Edwards  No broken valves for Cuz at Michigan. As is usually the case, the Roush contingent was strong on the 2-mile oval, with Edwards padding his championship ...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Clean Air, Clean Slate
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro The old racing adage that states “the best car doesn’t always win” has applied to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series more often than not in 2011. Fuel mileage, pit strategy a...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Please NASCAR, Don't Screw This Up
NASCAR by Mike Neff Stock car racing has been around for nearly a century, and NASCAR has been responsible for a vast majority of the growth of the sport since the early 1950s. From its humble beginni...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Carl Edwards  Edwards had the most telling line of the weekend at Pocono: “What’s the point of having the points lead if you don’t use it?” Think about that...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

King of the Mountains
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro You know something big has happened when Jeff Gordon hits a career milestone. Gordon, NASCAR’s active leader in career victories and a four-time Cup champion, has a portfol...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Pocono Raceway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro and Nathan Rush Location: Long Pond, Pa. Specs: 2.5-mile tri-oval; Banking/Turn 1: 14°; Banking/ Turn 1: 8°; Banking/ Turn 3: 6° 2010 Winners: Denny Hamlin (June), G...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

NASCAR Mid-Season Grades
NASCAR by Tom Bowles It’s hard to believe that the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is already halfway through its regular season, but as the circuit heads to the melting mountains of Pocono, Pa., (seriousl...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro 1. Carl Edwards   Leads the series with seven top 5s and 10 top 10s through 13 races, including his most recent masterful performance — a fifth at Kansas. 2. J...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

High Plains Dealer
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro For the second week in a row, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and crew chief Steve Letarte played the fuel mileage game. And for the second week in a row, they came up just shy. In...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

A Tale of Three Drivers
NASCAR by Vito Pugliese Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 was its typical showcase of endurance, stamina and mechanical frailty — peppered with an F-bomb — and the cries of favoritism and foul luck for NAS...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Kansas Speedway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro and Nathan Rush Location: Kansas City, Kan. Specs: 1.5-mile tri-oval; Banking/Turns: 15°; Banking/Tri-Oval: 10.4°; Banking/Backstretch: 5° 2010 Winner: Greg Biffle (...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro  1. Carl Edwards  The day faded to night at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Edwards’ car struggled to keep up. Regardless, he’s the man to beat on most weekends. ...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

"The Closer" Strikes Again
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Jimmie Johnson was still celebrating in Victory Lane at Auto Club Speedway on Feb. 21, 2010, when runner-up Kevin Harvick addressed the media and uttered a quote that still b...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

A Test of Man and Machine
NASCAR by Mike Neff Racing means many things to many people. There is the spectacle of the entire event, the crowds of people, the sounds and smells, strategy and pure speed. Perhaps the oldest — an...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Charlotte Motor Speedway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro and Nathan Rush Location: Concord, N.C. Specs: 1.5-mile quad-oval; Banking/Turns: 24°; Banking/Straightaways: 5° 2010 Winners: Kurt Busch (May); Jamie McMurray (Oct.)...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Horsepower Rankings
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro  1. Carl Edwards Not that an exhibition All-Star Race factors too heavily into the Horsepower Rankings, but Edwards was on top of the list before the race, then he won th...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

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