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Wrecking A Teammate Is Always Tough To Explain

T.C. — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:10:45 +0000

With the Cup Series delayed until at least Tuesday, I figured we’d take a look at an incident that took place during Saturday night’s Nationwide Series race at Atlanta. Late in the going, Justin Allgaier got into Turner Motorsports teammate Reed Sorenson in turn two, causing a wreck that ended the night for Sorenson and [...]

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2011 Shaping Up As Worst Season Of Smoke’s Career

T.C. — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:30:37 +0000

For Tony Stewart, Saturday night’s Cup race at Bristol was one to forget. After qualifying a dismal 42nd, Stewart rode around in the back all night and finished 28th. He was never higher than 28th on the leaderboard, and of the drivers that ran the entire race, Stewart had the seventh worst driver rating. It [...]

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Answers to Years of Speculation

Journo — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:46:53 +0000

It’s official… NASCAR has released the schedules for the 2011 season, and seasons of speculation are finally over – both Kentucky and Kansas got their long-anticipated Cup dates. I’ve never been the biggest advocated for giving Kentucky a Cup date and Kansas a second Cup date. They’re really just more of the same. That said, [...]

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Gateway Incident Adds to Carl Edwards’ Dark Side

Geoffrey Miller — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:41:00 +0000

Filed under: Carl Edwards, Sprint Cup

Carl Edwards certainly has been full of what marketing-types like to call "crossover appeal."

He's been the star of AFLAC's main Olympic commercial. He's glanced the cover of Men's Health magazine while becoming a spokesman for healthy fast food chain Subway.

And, of course, he's become a favorite of the "SportsCenter" highlight reels with his trademark backflip after a win.

But Edwards, ever the effervescent spokesman and intelligent thinker when asked questions in news conferences, has obviously shown to have a much darker side on-track at times -- with none more evident than what he was penalized for Wednesday by NASCAR.

Edwards lost 60 Nationwide Series driver points, earned a $25K fine and will be on probation through the end of the calendar year for wrecking Brad Keselowski on the final lap of Saturday night's Nationwide race just outside St. Louis.

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Payback For Accidental Contact Not Cool

Journo — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:13:07 +0000

Two incidents, two very similar stories. Two drivers enter a turn, two wide. The one on the bottom slips up and wrecks the one on top. The one who was wrecked has his car repaired and returns to track. He goes out and wrecks the one who wrecked him. One incident ends with a car [...]

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Precedent Means Nothing To NASCAR

T.C. — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:51:31 +0000

I’ve been following the Carl Edwards/Brad Keselowski reaction all week, because I was curious how everyone would respond to the incident. Between Twitter, forums, blog comments, and the writers, I’ve read a lot. Journo weighed in on the topic here on Monday. Some folks have made some really great points, and I can understand most [...]