The 2008 season is “Go Time” for quite a few drivers in the NASCAR Cup series. In the Roush Fenway Racing organization, “Go Time” just barely describes the situation. Jack Roush has announced that he will decide during this season which team on his roster of five will get cut in order to bring his [...]

Near the beginning of our Car Number Countdown to the Daytona 500 we put the spotlight on one of the more recent females to race in NASCAR, Shawna Robinson. Today we’re at #17 and we’re going to turn on the high-beams for the spotlight and shine it all the way back to 1949 & 1950 [...]

After working on spotlighting car #18 in the Car Number Countdown to the Daytona 500 I thought I’d share a little with you about the only pay-to-play internet fantasy game I’ve ever played in. The name of the game is Pay The Fan and they have both a NASCAR Racing division and NFL Football [...]

Imagine if the name of this website wasn’t OneBadWheel.com, and the subject matter was not NASCAR related. Instead, imagine that the website is OneBadClub.com with a focus on helping you with your fantasy golf game. I wonder if the majority of this site’s regular readers would still be visiting this site. Regardless whether you would [...]

So what do you do when your race teams haven’t been performing up to expected levels by the media, fans, or even yourself? Well, you call in reinforcements to help in a sport where costs have gone to the moon. This new partner can maybe equip the cars with ski racks on the roof. They [...]

While Preseason Thunder certainly helped build a little more anticipation for the Daytona 500, for me nothing really says “it’s almost time” than the running of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. As of this posting the teams are in the final hour of the race. Occasional NASCAR driver Scott Pruett is leading the DP [...]

Just as the #43 will forever be associated with Richard Petty, so too will the #21 be forever tied with a family owned and operated team in NASCAR racing. This family has had some of the biggest names in racing drive their cars over the years. When considering who to spotlight for car #21 in [...]

I was born in Ohio, but in my mid-teens my parents moved to Florida. Around ten years ago I moved to the Carolinas. Thus, some of my redneck friends here refer to me as a “half back.” That’s alright though, because a couple of my southern redneck friends are pretty darn cool, even if they [...]

Unless you haven’t been paying attention, the 2008 Daytona 500 will be the 50th running of the race. As such, we’ve been doing the car number countdown to the Daytona 500, and at each car number we’ve been spotlighting someone with an association to the number in history. This might be a driver, crew [...]

What happens when you’re a kid working on your kart and you live next door to one of NASCAR’s most famous crew chiefs? If you’re lucky that neighbor takes a few minutes to chat with you and eventually offers you a job cutting his grass, as well as working as an errand and clean-up boy [...]