I look at the table below and ask myself which driver should be ahead in the NASCAR points right now? Which one should be in position to qualify for the Chase for the Nextel Cup?

Driver
Wins
Top 5
Top 10
Avg Finish
% Laps

Kasey Kahne
4
7
12
16th
95.16%

Jeff Gordon
2
8
10
15th
92.19%

Kasey Kahne, right?
Well, Mr. (or Mrs.) NASCAR fan, you know the answer already. It’s Jeff [...]

Were you booing or cheering?
It was interesting to hear the equal amounts of contempt and joy from the stands.
If you watched the Busch Series race today at Michigan International Speedway you know what I’m talking about. What a fun race that was. The cars were running 4 and 5 wide and the intensity was high.
Robby [...]

Elliott Sadler & Ray Evernham came out swinging this weekend at Michigan International Speedway with an outside pole qualifying lap.
You know the comparisons are going to be made, so let me lay ‘em out for you in advance.
Jeremy Mayfield’s start positions for the last 3 Michigan races are: 18th, 11th & 5th. Not too bad [...]

In Texas we race on dirt. Okay. Sometimes its packed clay, but even then you get chunks of it thrown up on you in the stands.
In the NASCAR ranks we currently have a little dirt being dished up also. A scoop reporter at heart, John Newsome (aka The Spotter), has linked to some juicy tidbits [...]

With 22 weeks of NASCAR racing in the books for the 2006 season, there are some very surprising names in the list of drivers that are hot and drivers that are cold.
Hot NASCAR Drivers

Ok. I’m not really talking about Carl Edwards and how hot my daughters think he is. I’m talking about Happy Harvick. Kevin [...]

For the last six weeks now, I’ve been tracking the Fantasy Racing picks of a handful of the NASCAR online media community.
Fantasy Racing Experts
The (some willing & some unbeknownst to them) participants are:
ESPN’s Scott Engel; Frontstretch.com’s Cami Starr & Mike Neff; NASCAR.com’s David Newton, Dave Rodman, Marty Smith & Ryan Smithson; Yahoo! Fantasy Sports’ Jerry [...]

Kevin Harvick
Kevin Harvick wins the AMD at the Glen. Harvick is having an impressive turnaround season. This win will keep him rated as the Hottest Driver in NASCAR over the last three races for the second week in a row.
Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart’s second place finish is par for him as well. He has the best [...]

The family and I vacationed in Elyria, Ohio a week ago. Not the mecca of anything spectacular, except that it’s where I spent the first 16 years of my life. We stayed with my brother (Rick), his wife (Kithy) and my nephew (Ricky) for the 5 days we were there.
How does this fit in with [...]