NASCAR Articles

NASCAR Eldora. Eldora. Eldora. This summer, those words will be chanted from NASCAR Nation far and wide as the Camping World Truck Series becomes the guinea pig for one of the sport’s most noble mod...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR
NASCAR Athlon Sports has dissected the 2013 racing calendar and picked the top 10 must-see events of the year. Races from the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, Truck Series, IndyCar Series and Formula...
NASCAR As the 2013 NASCAR season prepares to get underway, Athlon Sports ranks the top teams to hit the track.   1. Hendrick Motorsports   An elephant is probably one of the few things R...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR
NASCAR 2013 Spin “The Jimmie Johnson Era.” Many fans might hate it, but that’s likely how the past decade of Sprint Cup competition will be remembered, as Johnson has made the series his personal ...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Jimmie Johnson, Daytona
NASCAR 2013 Spin Misbehavior and poor decision-making again ran rampant in 2012 from NASCAR’s Busch family. NASCAR’s charitable foundation added to its coffers thanks to levied fines, probation was ...
13 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: NASCAR, Kyle Busch, Daytona
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...
13 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...
13 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 ...
13 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...
13 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