NASCAR Articles

NASCAR 2013 Spin If Brad Keselowski proved anything en route to the 2012 Sprint Cup title, it was that history doesn’t always repeat itself. Exceeding expectations based on past performance at track a...
12 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Brad Keselowski, Daytona
NASCAR 2013 Spin There is little doubt that Clint Bowyer surpassed all expectations last year with Michael Waltrip Racing. No one thought that the Kansas driver, who left respected car owner Richard Chi...
12 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Clint Bowyer, Daytona
NASCAR 2013 Spin Does anyone have the feeling that 32-year-old Kasey Kahne is just getting started? After a disastrous start to 2012, his Hendrick Motorsports debut included a rally from 31st in driver ...
12 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Kasey Kahne, Daytona
NASCAR Heading into 2013, the Nationwide Series hopes to continue building momentum without some of its signature stars. Despite losing perhaps its two most notable drivers, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and D...
12 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR
NASCAR Newly crowned Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski admits that he’s caught himself admiring NASCAR’s next generation of racers. “They’re almost as good as I am, if not better right now,...
NASCAR 2013 Spin ESPN produced a commercial for its Chase for the Sprint Cup coverage last season with several humorous snippets of things Denny Hamlin doesn’t find worse than losing. They included Ha...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Denny Hamlin, Daytona
NASCAR 2013 Spin Matt Kenseth isn’t apprehensive about his surprising decision to leave Roush Fenway Racing for Joe Gibbs Racing this season. Things just weren’t coming together when Kenseth, fresh ...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Matt Kenseth, Daytona
NASCAR 2013 Spin In 14 seasons in NASCAR’s elite division, Tony Stewart has earned a few adjectives: brilliant, talented, hotheaded, difficult. But perhaps the one descriptor that has dogged him the m...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Tony Stewart, Daytona
NASCAR 2013 Spin Jeff Gordon enters his 21st year of Sprint Cup competition in 2013, and the driver once dubbed “Wonder Boy” has become one of the sport’s elder statesmen — though at 41, he’s ...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Jeff Gordon, Daytona
NASCAR The last crew chief to win a Sprint Cup championship for the Blue Oval brigade is now the next best hope to rejuvenate Carl Edwards’ title efforts. Jimmy Fennig’s assignment (or acceptance, or ...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Carl Edwards, Daytona
NASCAR A certain champion-to-be fired off a now-famous tweet during the 2012 Daytona 500, but long before @keselowski, there was @dennyhamlin. Since he’s still active and engaged on Twitter, we figured ...
13 weeks ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, Denny Hamlin
NASCAR Another lackluster NBA All-Star weekend wrapped up in Houston Sunday night. The dunk contest isn't what it used to be and the game features superstars playing some sport vaguely akin to professiona...
13 weeks ago by Braden Gall Tags: NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR
NASCAR They’re the best of the best and worst of the worst in NASCAR. The pretty and the ugly, the cool and the lame. They made us cheer, laugh and, as Robert Plant once said, taught us “to weep and m...
NASCAR Daytona Beach, Fla., is steeped in motorsports history. Known as “the birthplace of speed,” land speed records have been set on its white sand beaches. Drivers from a variety of disciplines hav...
NASCAR It’s been a unique start to Speedweeks in Daytona for NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series. Though technically, I guess most starts are unique. This one, however, has taken a new (if not predictable) tur...