On more than one occasion, I have come home from a night at the dirt track and written my post-race story only to find out that the driver who I thought had won had in fact been stripped of his win due to a failed inspection. I simply cannot understand…
If you had not seen a particular race but heard later that it was decided when one car chased another down from several seconds behind then the those two cars spun as that were coming to take the white flag with one of them recovering quickly enough to drive on…
It’s no secret that money matters in racing. It’s an expensive sport and without financial backing it is virtually impossible to compete. This fact is true whether you’re talking about NASCAR, IndyCar, Dirt Late Models, Sprint Cars, or Street Stocks. Unless a car owner has vast amounts of money of…
*This is the second of a two-part series of stories based on an interview with racer Chad Finchum. The first of these pieces was posted on August 2, 2017. Here is that story–> Chad Finchum working hard to climb the NASCAR ladder Racer Chad Finchum has already made three starts…
Last Saturday Brad Keselowski drove to a third place finish in the ‘Zippo 200 at the Glen’ NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Watkins Glen International. While that may not seem particularly noteworthy, it is worth pointing out that because of new rules soon to be put in place by NASCAR,…
*This is the first of a two-part series of stories based on an interview with racer Chad Finchum. The second of these pieces will be posted just before the NASCAR weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway later in August. Chad Finchum is an accomplished racer who can count his victories by…
If you watched any of the Brickyard 400 from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this past Sunday you could not have missed the fact that there were more empty seats surrounding the world’s most famous race track than there were filled ones. And if you were on social media during that…
This is the second of two pieces based on an interview done with NASCAR Xfinity Series regular Jeremy Clements. This driver, himself a former dirt racer, comes from one of the most noteworthy engine building families in the sport of Dirt Late Model racing. Jeremy Clements taking on powerful Cup…
Joey Coulter is one of only a handful of racers to have steered both a Dirt Late Model and a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series machine around the Eldora Speedway. In 2016, the Miami Springs, Fla. native finished 12th in his heat race and came up short in his bid…
Speculation has run wild over the past few days and weeks regarding the futures of numerous NASCAR Monster Energy Cup drivers. Among those pilots whose future is in question is Kasey Kahne, driver of the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet. After being involved in an early race crash and falling…
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