Will The Chevrolet Stranglehold At Indianapolis Motor Speedway Finally End? Bill Elliott in the 2002 Brickyard race was the last driver to kiss the bricks without having Chevrolet under under the hood. Will that domination come to an end on Sunday? When you look at the average speed chart (click here to read my Practice Breakdown), it [...]
Stewart Looking For First Top Ten Since Mid-June As I said in my Preview on Wednesday, I will be focused heavily on average practice speeds this week as well as the Pocono and Phoenix races from earlier this season. Some other fantasy writers may compare Loudon to Martinsville, but I don’t see the resemblance so [...]
Ambrose Still My Favorite Heading Into Sunday Practice is very important when the Cup Series comes to the road course tracks, and in case you missed the two sessions, or would like to see the numbers click here to check out my Practice Breakdown that I posted earlier today. In my Infineon Preview (click here [...]
Will Ragan Finally Capture A Victory? In case you missed practice, or would like to read my Practice Breakdown to see all of the numbers, just click here. You can also compare these post-qualifying predictions to my Preview picks (posted on Wednesday) by clicking here. According to Ryan Rantz, the owner of this site, practice [...]
Have The Fords Lost Their Edge? If you read my Practice Breakdown this week (click here if you didn’t), you probably noticed one thing out of the ordinary: Ford didn’t dominate the speed charts. Carl Edwards was the only driver to crack the top ten in Happy Hour, and he and his teammate, Greg Biffle, [...]
Credit: John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR Load Up On Roush This Weekend…As Usual Now that qualifying is overwith, the cars won’t see the track again until the wave of the green flag for STP 400 tomorrow afternoon. Kurt Busch won the pole for the event, beating out Juan Montoya by over one-tenth of a second. [...]
Credit: John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR A Repeat Of Last Weekend Is Likely With two practice sessions being held this afternoon between qualifying and the race, it should be a little easier to forecast who will be the best picks for the Coca Cola 600. In case you haven’t checked out my practice breakdown for [...]
Johnson Should Dominate On Sunday With qualifying getting rained out this afternoon, the starting lineup will be set according to practice speeds, which means Jimmie Johnson will start from the pole for the race on Sunday. The complete starting lineup can be found by clicking here. Both practices were held Friday afternoon, and in case [...]
Don’t Go Against Gibbs At Richmond Both practices were held before qualifying, but in case you want to check out average speeds, you can click here to see my practice breakdown. Juan Montoya won the pole this afternoon in cased you missed qualifying. The entire starting lineup can be found by clicking here. As you [...]
Can Harvick Make It Three Wins In A Row? NASCAR is leaving fantasy racers in the dark once again this week, and while I’m not a fan of this practice schedule they have been running, there is nothing I can do about it. I still calculated average speeds and everything as normal, though, and you can [...]
Now that qualifying is over, there will be no more track time for the Sprint Cup drivers until the green flag drops Sunday afternoon. I’m not sure how telling average practice speeds will be, but click here for my practice breakdown for this week. Jamie McMurray grabbed his first pole at Martinsville this afternoon with [...]
Credit: Jeff Gross/Getty Images Can Jimmie Win Again At Fontana? Juan Montoya grabbed the sixth pole of his career on Friday, just beating out Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin. It is the first pole at Auto Club Speedway for Montoya. The entire starting lineup can be found by clicking here. Qualifying [...]
Credit: John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR Edwards Off To A Fast Start In 2011 In case you missed qualifying on Friday, Carl Edwards grabbed his second pole of this young season at Bristol Motor Speedway. The complete starting order can be found by clicking here. Qualifying is important here, with 80% of past winners coming [...]
A-List Tony Stewart Kyle Busch Jeff Gordon Kurt Busch Greg Biffle Matt Kenseth Denny Hamlin Kevin Harvick Carl Edwards Jimmie Johnson B-List Dale Earnhardt Jr. Kasey Kahne Martin Treux Jr. Brad Keselowski Brian Vickers Marcos Ambrose Jr. AJ Allmendinger David Reutimann Mark Martin Jeff Burton Jamie McMurray Ryan Newman Juan Pablo Montoya Joey Logano Clint [...]
One of my favorite fantasy NASCAR tools of all time is the Yahoo race result charts. I’m not a fantasy racer who just looks at the finishing order and believes NASCAR drivers finished where they belong. What I really like about these charts is that they show where a particular driver ran during the course [...]