All week long, since Monday afternoon when one maneuver landed one driver on the naughty list for the following weekend, the discussion was if the sanctioning body would allow the same driver to still have the chance to battle for a championship. Sure enough, that decision was made, and based ...
Read More »Dustin Off a Resurrection: All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro
Paraphrasing a movie that came out one year after this track closed down, it’s been 27 years. It’s been that long since a Cup car rolled through these corners. Nearly three decades since these machines rolled downhill to the flagstand, then back uphill towards the grandstand. When Jeff Gordon crossed ...
Read More »NASCAR Needs More Right Crosses than Wrecked Cars
Fans want more action on the track, more aggressive racing, more battles for the lead, and more desire to go after that win, that position, possibly that championship. The problem with all that is sometimes that aggressiveness is taken out on those that in reality get to be the victims ...
Read More »Old-School Names Turn into Outlaws at 4-Wheel Jamboree
The one constant about and old-school four wheel drive show is that you expect to see the classics. Classic trucks with modern upgrades, yet still keep the right attitude from back when they were originally built. But, you also see modern takes on those ideas, with custom touches and new ...
Read More »Dustin Off the Paperclip: NOCO 400
Something about this very small, very tight, and very aggressive little track in Virginia seems to bring out the chaos, a little trial-and-error, and maybe even a bit of desperation. Are these drivers having too many of the infamous Martinsville hot dogs, a delicacy that some call the most disgustingly ...
Read More »Dustin Off the First Road Course: EchoPark Grand Prix of the Americas
It’s hard to get a grasp on the Circuit of the Americas since the first two races ran at this track were so different, and even this year there’s a new twist to the third edition. Let’s go back to a couple years ago, when this track debuted. Apparently everything ...
Read More »Dustin Off the Next Race: Ambetter Health 400
To be perfectly honest, this is not the Atlanta Motor Speedway this writer grew up with. Then again, the Atlanta that I originally grew up with I only saw run nine races before it got reworked to the 1.54-mile track it is now. Yet, this track is not the one ...
Read More »Dustin Off the Next Race: Pennzoil 400 Presented by Jiffy Lube
The addition of the west coast swing for NASCAR truly gives the fans that are on the opposite side of the country a string of events that they could see the best athletes perform. Three different speedways, three weeks of action, and all three prove that different styles suit different ...
Read More »Dustin Off and Closing Out Auto Club: Pala Casino 400
The history that has come from the Auto Club Speedway over the years, more of a mixed bag as to whether it’s been good, or has been overdone. The hype that surrounded the track when it was built in 1997 was not as big as the build of Texas Motor ...
Read More »Dustin Off the 2023 Daytona 500: 75 Years of NASCAR
It started with trying to outrun the law with some moonshine liquor, and grew into a worldwide phenomenon. What seemed to be something that was strictly southern-born, and southern ran, has become something that has welcomed backgrounds from multiple forms of racing, and multiple interests. Since 1959, one mecca of ...
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