Despite us not being able to see the cars on the track that much this weekend, there were three practice sessions and a bunch of numbers that we now have to decipher. With New Hampshire Motor Speedway being only a 1-mile race track, the teams put a bunch of laps on in practice, so don’t [...]
A Fuel Mileage Race Puts the Burden on the Crew Chief For the last ten races of the 2012 NASCAR season, you’re going to see a lot of familiar faces up front week in and week out. For whatever reason, the drivers that are in the Chase turn it up another notch. It happens, and [...]
The Sprint Cup Series actually practiced under race conditions this weekend so that’s good news for fantasy racers, as the data below will have more merit than some other weeks. Both sessions were on Friday afternoon and qualifying is set to be held on Saturday at 1:30 pm on SPEED. Once the starting lineup is [...]
A Weekend For Sleepers? In my opinion, it’s really hard to judge who will be fast in a night race when all of the practice was held during the day, but that’s what we have to work with this week. In case you missed the Average Practice Speeds post, you can view it by clicking [...]
NASCAR gave us a very tight schedule to work with this weekend. There were two practice sessions on Friday afternoon that were separated by a mere 30 minutes, and qualifying is set to be held around 5:30 on ESPN2. The Federated Auto Parts 400 is set to start around 7:30 pm on Saturday evening, but I’m hearing [...]
Crazy Weekend So Far It’s been an interesting weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway to say the least. First, the track was re-done was once again to make the racing more “exciting” for fans. What it basically did is attempt to make only one racing groove. Then, the track officials thought it would be a great [...]
The schedule for this weekend at Bristol was compacted to say the least. Every on-track, pre-race activity was scheduled for Friday, with two practice sessions occurring in the mid-afternoon and qualifying set to start later tonight at 5:00 pm eastern time. The leaders will start lapping cars quick on Saturday night so qualifying is pretty [...]
Big Names Starting in the Rear on Sunday There were lots of big names that had issues during the practice sessions on Saturday, so if you missed Ryan’s Notes posts on each, be sure to check them out. You can view the 2nd practice notes by clicking here and the one for Happy Hour by [...]
This weekend at Michigan we had a (what I like to call) “normal” weekend. There was a practice session on Friday afternoon in which most teams focused solely on qualifying, which was held later that day. Mark Martin won the pole in case you missed it, and the full starting lineup for the Pure Michigan [...]
MWR Looking To Sweep The Road Courses In 2012 The rain followed the Sprint Cup Series from Pocono to Watkins Glen but the good news is that the forecast for the Finger Lakes 355 looks clear. Thankfully, NASCAR added a practice session this weekend to make up for the missed time on Friday. In case [...]
Rain ruined Friday–for the most part–with the Sprint Cup cars only getting about one hour of practice time at Watkins Glen International. Thankfully, NASCAR added a practice on Saturday morning, so we will have a decent amount of practice data to review. The radar looks pretty clear for both Saturday as well as during the [...]
Can A Ford Finally Win At The Brickyard? I Wouldn’t Count On It In case you didn’t check out the Average Practice Speeds post from earlier today, you probably want to check it out (click here). Very few drivers ran runs of at least ten-consecutive laps so average speeds give you a lot better idea [...]
The schedule this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a little different than normal, probably due to the fact that the Nationwide Series will race on the same track for the first time. There were two practice sessions on Saturday morning and qualifying is later this afternoon on ESPN (2:00 pm Eastern). It’s real hard [...]
Can Stewart-Haas Racing Continue Its Good Run at Loudon? New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a 1.0-mile short track so that means qualifying is very important here. Kyle Busch won the pole for Sunday’s LENOX Industrial Tools 301, and the full starting lineup can be found by clicking here. Another thing that I find very important [...]
Practice went from irrelevant last weekend in Daytona to very important here at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This is a 1.0-mile short track and it’s going to take a fast and good-handling car to win on Sunday, or even get to the front if you had a bad qualifying run. By the way, the full starting lineup [...]