Will Ryan Newman receive the next fine from NASCAR?

By Mr. CJ Sports As we wrapped up what was probably the best race we have seen all season, it seems that not everybody was as approving.  Yes the rain delay drug things out, yes Ricky Stenhouse and J.J. Yeley had no business up front to ...

Holly Snyder’s Tailgating Awesome Eats

Should the Nationwide Series be less “Rowdy”?

By Brian Eberly @beberly18   After a disappointing 32nd place finish in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway, Kyle “Rowdy” Busch has been tearing up the NASCAR Nationwide Series this season.  He has posted wins at Phoenix International Raceway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, and Texas Motor ...

First Time Fridays: Dale Earnhardt 1979 Southeastern 500

By Mr. CJ Sports     This weeks First Time Fridays is my birthday gift to “The Intimidator” Dale Earnhardt, who would have turned 62-years-old this week.  I never was a fan of Earnhardts’, but I had nothing but the upmost respect for him.  With his birthday (April 29, ...

Aaron’s 312 Nationwide Series Preview

By Brian Eberly @beberly18     May 2, 2013 From one of the shortest tracks on the circuit to the longest, the NASCAR Nationwide Series heads to the 2.66 mile Talladega Superspeedway for the Aaron’s 312 this Saturday.  The race marks the eighth of 33 events this season and will ...

What does NASCAR stand for?

  By Ed Quinn   “I don’t want to be the pessimist, but it did not race as good as our Generation 5 cars ,” Hamlin said. “This is more like what the Generation 5 was at the beginning. The teams hadn’t figured out how to get the ...

Do Cup Drivers Belong in the lower Series?

By Ed Quinn       I have sat down to write this article several times, and I end up rambling on and on when I get stuck on some tangent.  The trouble is that this isn’t an easy yes and no question.  There are different levels to this ...

Truck Races, Where Are The Fans?

By Ed Quinn   We the fans are slacking, and it is up to us to finally do something about it.  We complain about this and that when it comes to racing.  How the main event has become overly commercialized, how the racing isn’t as good as ...

Where there’s Smoke there will be fire!

By Ed Quinn It has been a little over a  week since the end of the best racing the Sprint Cup series has enjoyed in a very long time, and obviously the best since the introduction of the Gen 6 cars.  Turmoil still abounds on Facebook, ...

Team Orders Don’t Belong in Racing

By Ed Quinn One thing that I haven’t been able to address on The Inside Pass, my weekly radio show (you can listen at the following link on Tuesday nights from 7-9pm cst: www.theinsidepass.net/contact.html) is the issue of team orders.  Specifically the team orders that are ...

NASCAR POWER RANKINGS: Week 5

By Mr. CJ Sports             After a few weeks off, we are officially back with the NASCAR Power Rankings.  We apologize and promise that the Power Rankings will be up every week from now on.  So without any farther delay, here are this weeks rankings: 10. Germain Racing ...

Kahne finally tames “Thunder Valley”

By Mr. CJ Sports Kasey Kahne can finally cross Bristol off his bucket list.  Not only was he able to have his Great Clips Chevrolet out front Sunday, he was able to have it out front by 1.7 seconds. Kahne showed us exactly what Mr. Hendrick sees ...

The Nationwide Series starts the season off with a “War Zone”

By Mr. CJ Sports Everything had went as planned on Saturday.  We got to see pack racing, we got to see what we thought was the “big one” and we were set to call it a day as the field came to take the checkered flag.  ...

Watch out boys SHE is the fastest

By Mr. CJ Sports After the 2012 season being a very disappointing season, Danica Patrick is bound and determined that the 2013 season will start off on the right foot.  Even though it has only been two practices, Patrick is a solid candidate to win the pole ...

Denny Hamlin and girlfriend welcome baby girl

For Better or Worse…Will the Gen-6 cars make racing better?

  Shot by The Daredevil at Daytona during Speedweeks 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There aren’t many complaints to the look of the 2013 Gen-6 new car that will soon be hitting the tracks, in competition mode. In comparison to the “COT”, which was introduced for the ...

Keselowski wraps up last season with one more honor

If the 2012 season was not already the best year in Brad Keselowski's life, things just got a little sweeter. On Sunday, Keselowski was named the 2012 driver of the year. Keselowski received the Richard Petty Trophy, voted on by the members of the National ...

NASCAR gets clever with wording of rule change