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Last week on Mad Dog Sports Radio, Stephen A. Smith weighed in on the greatest athletes of all time, with the focus on longevity. When a caller put forward Richard Petty as a candidate, Smith brushed it aside, saying, “Come on, man. That don’t count. You driving a car!” From there, he doubled down, throwing […]
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to its ninth race of the season this weekend at Kansas Speedway. Kyle Larson will be coming with the 2025 Spring Busch Light Pole Award and as the defending race winner. Yet it is the 2024 finish that is still in everyone’s mind. On that day, Larson edged Chris Buescher […]
Year two of NASCAR’s 2025 media-rights deal has become a measuring stick for fans and stakeholders, with numbers swinging from one week to the next like a car hanging loose off Turn 4. But one question kept hanging in the air: do television ratings match what fans actually thought about the racing itself? That riddle […]
There are race tracks that host events, and then there are tracks that feel like NASCAR’s soul. Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway sits firmly in the latter category. But recent developments in March have put the future of the iconic half-mile in doubt, with talks of a potential sale raising fresh concerns. Still, there’s hope. With Speedway […]
As Cleetus McFarland prepares for his first NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series start, he recently admitted he’s nervous. However, the good news is that he will have the ARCA race at the same track, Rockingham Speedway, so he can at least get used to it. However, the real challenge for him would be to get […]
In his second bid at the “Double,” the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day, Kyle Larson saw both runs go up in smoke. He crashed out of the Indy 500 on lap 92 and later met the same fate in the Coca-Cola 600 on lap 245, marking the first “Double DNF” […]
Although in many cases the overtime finish in NASCAR races has served as a safeguard to keep drivers out of harm’s way and avoid a pile-up on the final lap or the lap before it, the sanctioning body has also leaned on it as a way to spice up the show, often at the cost […]
NASCAR drivers will no longer be able to drive off into the Turn 1 runoff on starts and restarts at Watkins Glen International, now that the sanctioning body has introduced changes to track limits at Turn 1 and the exit of the Carousel. The decision aims to limit how far drivers can extend beyond the […]
In a major setback for Ryan Preece and RFK Racing, the National Motorsports Appeals Panel upheld NASCAR’s penalty against the No. 60 team stemming from the incident at Texas Motor Speedway. While the three-member panel was not unanimous in its decision, it noted that Preece’s radio communications indicated he had chosen not to give his […]
Joey Logano claimed the Gateway pole with a massive 0.276-second advantage over Kyle Larson as Team Penske chases crucial NASCAR playoff points.
Not so long ago, a trip to Talladega Superspeedway was a hair-raising thriller with guaranteed chaos. Cars packed tight at 200 miles an hour, daredevils attempting last-lap moves, and drivers walking the razor’s edge between control and calamity, those elements defined the spirit of superspeedway racing. That was until NASCAR’s Next-Gen revolution upended the status […]
As we inch closer to the halfway mark of the 2026 NASCAR season, the garage is starting to split into two groups. On one side, we have teams chasing a championship right now, and on the other, teams already thinking about what their future will look like two years from now. That is why conversations […]