NASCAR: Johnson vs Keselowski
NASCAR’s championship battle has focused itself in recent races on a straight duel between five-time champion Jimmie Johnson and Roger Penske’s exciting new talent Brad Keselowski. In the third-last race…
I had to chuckle when I read Paul Fearnley’s blog last week about Romain Grosjean and the need for bad guys - black characters - in motor racing. Paul’s examples…
The high-banked Talladega Superspeedway is renowned as the ‘Wild Card’ in NASCAR’s championship battle. For the past twenty-five years Talladega and Daytona have been constrained by the dreaded ‘restrictor plates’…
After running out of fuel on the last lap at the Chicagoland Speedway the previous Sunday, Denny Hamlin predicted he would bounce back and win NASCAR’s next race at the…
After Saturday night’s 400-lap race on the half-mile Richmond, Virginia oval the field of twelve drivers for this year’s NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup has been set. The Chase…
There was racing aplenty across North America last weekend. MotoGP was in action at Indianapolis, NASCAR Sprint Cup ran at Michigan, the American Le Mans Series was at Elkhart Lake,…
One of the most powerful signs that NASCAR was going to expand into all corners of the United States and dominate America’s motor racing landscape came at Watkins Glen a…
It was no surprise that Dodge announced this week it is pulling out of NASCAR at the end of the season. In recent years Dodge has been reduced to being…
Any doubts about Jimmie Johnson’s ability to challenge for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship were dispelled in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. Johnson dominated the race, leading 99 of…
NASCAR arrived in my backyard last weekend for round 19 of the 36-race Sprint Cup championship. These days New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one of NASCAR’s most successful tracks, drawing…
Jimmie Johnson came through to score Hendrick Motorsports’s 200th NASCAR Sprint Cup win last Saturday night at Darlington, South Carolina. Johnson’s victory in the Southern 500 brought an end to…
For the second year in a row five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has been ranked by Forbes magazine as America’s most influential athlete. Forbes polled more than 1100 adults aiming…
Roush Fenway Ford team-mates Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle controlled the final 100 miles of this year’s Daytona 500 on Monday night after a day and a half of rain…
NASCAR’s enfant terrible Kyle Busch scored a spectacular win in the 200-mile Budweiser Shootout last Saturday night. The non-points sprint race kicks off NASCAR’s 38-race season and resulted in a remarkable…
Truth be known, last month’s Rolex 24 Hours was a mere warm-up for the big show, which arrives in Daytona at the end of this week. By mid-week more than…
You couldn‘t ask for a better championship battle than NASCAR has enjoyed this year through its 10-round ‘Chase for the Cup’. Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards raced for the Sprint…
Tony Stewart or Carl Edwards? NASCAR’s 36th and final Sprint Cup race of the year takes place at the Homestead-Miami Speedway next weekend and the championship will go to one…