And The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Is….. Three points, two drivers, one champion. Carl Edwards started off this weekend being fast in practice, and brought that over into qualifying where he won his third and final pole for this 2011 season. Martin Truex, Jr. will start beside Cousin Carl on Sunday, and for [...]
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire Judging by Saturday’s qualifying session, the Kobalt Tools 500 definitely has the potential to be a wreck-fest, maybe even worse than the one we had at this track in February. Car after car was sliding around this newly configured Phoenix International Raceway, but it was Matt Kenseth who got the [...]
Kasey Kahne – Kahne is a former Texas winner but what I really like about him is his momentum. Red Bull employees must be working extra hard in the shop because both the 4 and 83 have been performing better in recent weeks. Kasey Kahne is just outside the top tier elite group of drivers [...]
This Is The Week To Leave Edwards “In The Garage” There’s not much information to go off of this weekend, so I’m going to look at past history as a major indicator for who is going to be good in Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway. As you probably read in Ryan’s Scouting [...]
Time For Some Unfamiliar Faces Up Front First, I would like to thank everyone who commented on last week’s Predictions article as well as those who tweeted it, ‘liked’ it on Facebook, or just simply told a friend to read it. If you’ve been reading these posts all season, you noticed that I changed the [...]
It’s Been A While Since We Saw A Backflip This weekend the Sprint Cup Series is at Kansas Speedway for the second time in this 2011 season, and for the fourth race in their ten-race playoffs. Brad Keselowski won here in June on a fuel gamble, and gas mileage could easily become a factor in [...]
A= Really, Really Good Pick Jimmie Johnson – Johnson has finished in the top ten in five consecutive Kansas races. Earlier this year he finished 7th and had an average running position of 9.9 despite starting 31st. If qualifying points matter to you Johnson has started in the top 4 in six of his ten [...]
A= Really, Really Good Pick Jimmie Johnson – Johnson has won three out of the last five races at Dover. Another amazing stat is that in these five races he’s led 1,192 laps and the least amount of laps he’s led in a race was 191 (nearly half the race). Johnson has six wins at [...]
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Expect To See Some Familiar Cars Up Front On Saturday Night The “regular season” of NASCAR will end on Saturday night, and thankfully we can all now stop hearing about clinching scenarios (I think Tony Stewart wants that talk to stop as well). Richmond is a 0.75-mile track and any racing on a short, flat [...]
Can “Smoke” Stay In The Top Ten With The Red Hot Blue Deuce Team Closing In? I’ll tell you before I start that this week is a complete toss up for me. Not only is no driver really dominant at this track, but that along with the idiotic practice schedule–Matt Kenseth said, “I don’t know [...]
Will Kyle Busch Finally Be De-Throned At Bristol? My favorite race of the year is Saturday night, and even though driver’s tempers can ruin your rosters quickly at this half-mile track, the Bristol races are usually very good weeks to pick some underdogs and take a chance. Ryan Newman grabbed the pole for the Irwin [...]
We actually got to see the cars on the track after qualifying this weekend, so be sure to check out my Practice Breakdown to see who will probably be fast (at the beginning anyway) during the Pure Michigan 400. Roush-Fenway teammates Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth took the front row in qualifying, and the full [...]
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Can Marcos Ambrose Finally Get That Elusive Sprint Cup Victory? Like it or not, the Sprint Cup Series drivers will be making left and right hand turns on Sunday, as they are set to make (at least) 90 laps around Watkins Glen International for the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips At The Glen. There will be [...]