So you've got your double diffuser? Check. You've got your bigger fuel tank? Check. You've got your adapted smaller front wing? Check. You've got the rest of your aero package tuned to a tee? Check. You've fiddled things around so you can fit that massive fuel tank in the boot somewhere too right? Yup. And you've made sure your drivers are the best you can possibly afford? Of course. So has everyone else. Working out who came out on top in Winter Testing was like trying to pick a winner at the dogs. And I don't mean Crufts. I mean some mangy greyhound track in the back end of nowhere, where the dogs are from the C-team and the trainers are all much more interested in the Sunday League game on the pitch next door. Sure, you can see who's ha...

After a nearly a month off after Daytona, the Camping World Truck Series hit the track for their second race of the season. Check out the winners and losers of the E-Z Go 200.   Winners Kevin Harvick It should be no surprise that Kevin Harvick dominated the race. In fact, he was never outside the top five on Saturday. Harvick is coming to the track in brand new equipment and it shows. Harvick had this race won from the drop of the green flag. He quickly took the lead and really no other truck could beat him. The team only made one adjustment on the car all day and that was on the final stop of the day. Harvick has won the last three races he has run going back to 2009. Harvick has made Kevin Harvick Inc. into a powerhouse organizatio...

With NASCAR race cars essentially being billboards that move at speeds of about 200 MPH, it is surprising (although not that surprising for some) that more of these sponsors that you see on every other athlete in the world have not made the jump to NASCAR. Here are 5 sponsors that could find a niche in NASCAR.Begin Slideshow...

With the Carl Edwards-Brad Kesolowski incident grabbing all the headlines from Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500, another storyline is there, but not a lot of people are talking about it. Richard Petty Motorsports may very well be back. Most NASCAR fans are used to seeing Kasey Kahne, in the red Budweiser Ford Fusion, be the successful one out of the RPM stable. As the flagship driver, that is to be expected. However, Paul Menard in the Moen's/Menard's Ford Fusion and AJ Allmendinger in the Insight/Best Buy Fusion had stellar days in Atlanta. While Kahne led the most laps on the day with 144 and had the chance at the win on the final restart had Juan Pablo Montoya not spun his tires, he has been struggling overall thus far this season. He had good ...

The last two seasons for Robert Kubica have seen two halves. Going from a celebrated hero to an unappealing zero, his career was forced into jeopardy. The exit of BMW left him and teammate Nick Heidfeld under a cloud of doubt. Would their careers be sustained amongst the various emerging talents within the sport after a season of turmoil?   Kubica proved more successful than his former teammate, as Renault snapped him up relatively quickly after last season. Then there was the crash-gate controversy that put immense pressure on Renault and their future prospects. Kubica’s position on the 2010 grid was again thrust into doubt. He was left with a decision to stay with what could have been a sinking ship, or to look elsewhere with ...

With the way that the 2009 season went for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and company there was absolutely no way that 2010 could be any worse. Suffering what was statistically his worse season in Sprint Cup Series racing, the No. 88 team was revamped coming into 2010. A mid-season crew chief, shop and personnel changes were all on the menu in order to have the sports most popular driver run like his three teammates who had finished one-two-three in points last year. Team owner Rick Hendrick repeatedly said that Earnhardt Jr.’s team was ‘priority number one.’ When Speedweeks began it looked like the hard work was already paying off. Earnhardt Jr. qualified second for the Daytona 500 and had a solid week leading up to the big race. He ...

Kurt Busch wins his first victory of the year, second spring Atlanta win in a row, in the 2009 Kobalt Tools 500, though the talk doesn’t even involve Busch. After a controversial wreck with six laps to go, everybody is talking about Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards.   On lap 39, Keselowski and Edwards made contact on the restart, sending Edwards and Joey Logano into the wall. On the initial replay, it looked as if Keselowski got into the back of Edwards. Though upon further review, Edwards actually came down in front of Keselowski, causing Keselowski to get into him. Either way, blame was placed on Keselowski for the incident.   “He cut down on me on the restart and I couldn't lift faster,” Keselowski said of the...

I remember 1993. It was Talladega. I, a Rusty Wallace fan, watched my driver flip through the infield at 195 mph. "It looks like a bomb went off...," said Benny Parsons as he was broadcasting the race that day. I remember my father, "That son of a [gun], that son of [gun]!!!!" My father who wasn't even a Rusty fan was very upset with the incident. Because no one turns on the TV to see that. Rusty Wallace suffered a broken wrist and several other smaller injuries. Not once, did the word "suspension" arise. Not one broadcaster threw Dale Earnhardt under the bus, like Chris Myers did to Carl Edwards Sunday. Rusty did something wrong. Rusty came up to the high side on the the final lap. Dale was unhappy about Rusty leaving him o...

While surfing the net early this morning I counted over 1000 related articles written about the race in Atlanta this weekend.   Only a small percentage of those were written about the actual racing at Atlanta or who won. Who knew it would be Brad Keselowski or Carl Edwards grabbing the headlines and putting an end to the regurgitated victory speeches of Jimmie Johnson? It’s very clear that Edward’s actions stemmed from an earlier incident with Keselowski. Replays of the incident on lap 40 shows only a slight scratch to the front bumper of Kezelowski’s car just below the headlight area. No damage to the side fender or to the right front fender, just to the bumper. This proves Edwards didn’t come down on Keselowsk...

It doesn't matter how many laps a driver leads, the one lap that matters is the last. Guys like Kyle Busch will always say that it doesn't matter if you dominate the race, if that driver doesn't lead the last one, the effort was for nothing. Jeff Gordon knows that better than anybody as of last weekend in Las Vegas when he led over 200 laps but finished third. NASCAR has provided so many great races and spectacular finishes over it's 60-plus year history. It's something that the fans want to see each time they spend the money on a ticket. It makes it a more memorable weekend when the finish comes down to a classic duel between driving greats. So many races, so many moments, it is hard to choose what races stand out in terms of great f...