One of the beauties of sports is the arguments.

Is player A better than player B?
Was it better back in the day or now?

It’s fun to argue and discuss, but for any argument it’s important to use the right context.
Raw numbers don’t work. You have to understand a number of other factors that affect the numbers.
Many [...]

No, it’s not what you think: there’s no way I’m going there. You should definitely vote (and if you don’t office linebacker Terry Tate will pummel you), but One Bad Wheel is not about to tell you how to vote.
Instead let’s talk about the popular notion that the Chase is broken and the only way [...]

So last week I pointed out that Mike was bucking Jeff’s fantasy preview advice. He also bucked the trend of taking either Jeff Gordon or Jimmie Johnson to win Martinsville. Instead, he took Earnhardt Jr. and backed up his decision by pointing out, “The last two fall races Junior has run in the top [...]

A quick recap of Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chase through three races: Tony Stewart’s #20 team is stale, Kyle Busch is toast and Denny Hamlin appears to be getting moldy. Suffice to say, Talladega comes at a good time for the Gibbs cars. Toyota has struggled at other tracks, but the Camry has owned the restrictor [...]

If the Chase was a Disney movie, Kyle Busch’s first two races would set the stage for a scrappy, against-all-odds comeback where he wins the Chase on the final lap at Homestead. Of course that would also cast Busch as the pluck and lovable underdog. Sadly for Busch and the #18 team the Sprint Cup [...]

Now that we’re finally into the Chase it’s time to get down to business. It’s easy to think anyone has a chance, but what does it really take to win the Chase? How many points is the realistic target for a Champion driver? In the short four year Chase era every champion driver has averaged [...]

OneBadWheel.com is proud to introduce the OneBadWheel Fantasy NASCAR Forum to our fellow fantasy NASCAR junkies.
OneBadForum (as I like to call it) will serve as yet another avenue of information, stats, and opinions from it’s membership that may help fantasy NASCAR players succeed in their fantasy games. While the forum’s primary focus will revolve [...]

Since a lot of people dislike the Chase format, maybe this is the year to feature a different playoff format. NASCAR is more of a team sport than ever before and talk of franchising is occasionally breached so let’s take it a step further. Let’s make it a four way fight to determine the [...]

In light of the Olympics craze, it’s easy to try and relate it to NASCAR. Sometimes it works, like comparing Michael Phelps’ Olympics to Kyle Busch’s season. It’s a stretch but at least holds some parallels. Other times it just won’t translate and looks like grasping at straws. Witness one such grasp from the AP:

In [...]

Does the Bristol night race’s reputation precede the actual quality of the race? It’s still one of the most anticipated races of the season, but in recent years it’s become something resembling a parade more than a race. Last year’s resurfacing project helped introduce a second groove, but things still didn’t change at the front [...]