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Martinsville was night and day between Xfinity and Cup

The heavy difference between the Saturday race and the Sunday race at martinsville speedway must be studied. There was complete chaos on Saturday especially in the later stages of the race, but on Sunday the race was quite tame. While it must be noted that racing in the cup series at this track took a hit compared to the gen 6, but the racing compared to the xfinity series is still way less chaotic. So the Xfinity series raced at martinsville speedway in 2006, but after that race they didn’t return for 14 years. Once they returned it was nothing but chaos.Since their return to the paper clip, the racing has provided quite a bit of controversy including the most recent race this weekend. This is a stark difference from how the cup series races have been as there has been less passing but less wrecks as well. The Xfinity series has time and time again had races at the track start off as racing and ending in slam and run racing. It showed even more true this past Saturday as several d...
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Martinsville preview

This week in the NASCAR cup series brings us to Martinsville. This time we prepare for 400 laps around the paper clip and with a softer tire, I expect the racing to be similar to the fall race that saw tire wear and falloff. Last year in the spring race we saw William Byron win after a late race restart. The fall race while we saw controversy saw a Ryan Blaney win. Byron is coming into the weekend off a 12th place finish at Homestead which saw him have to overcome a costly penalty. Ryan Blaney comes into the weekend off of back to back dnfs due to blown engines so he’s definitely looking to turn things around this weekend. Let’s get into this preview. This tire is the same tire that was ran in the fall of last year, and this will be the only tire as there is no option tire in play this weekend. However as of this moment as I type this there is a chance of rain this Sunday which could lead to the wet weather tires being used. This would be the first time that the Cup series wou...
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NASCAR Credential Issue

Last week saw more drama in the NASCAR world as it was widely discussed that the approval process to drive in the Cup series should be adjusted. The talks started after the announcement that Katherine Legge would be driving in the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevy. The talks became louder after a up and down day that saw Legge spin on lap 4, but after that was able to stay out of trouble and log laps like any rookie would want. That was until another incident later that took out Daniel Suarez. While she has had success in various other forms of racing, she doesn’t have many starts in a stock car especially on a oval which drew concern. Another issue was the lack of time or practice that there was for her to prepare, especially when one is a rookie for a team that also isn’t full time. Let’s get into it. Now normally when it comes to rookies making Cup starts that are their first start, there is a rookie test which is like a shakedown that gets rookies more familiar with th...
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NASCAR Cup COTA Race Review

The third week of the NASCAR Cup Series season took us to The Circuit of the America’s located in Austin Texas. The race track being used this week was designed differently compared to year’s past as the long back straightaway was cut in half and turn 6 went from a right hander to a right then two sharp lefts to help cut the course down. This proved to be a fun corner, let’s get into it. Teammates Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace led the field to the green and the field could barely get past the start finish line before chaos began. Carson Hocevar made a jump to the outside of Bubba Wallace and it look like there was slight contact but nothing too serious. On the inside lane going into turn one, the 1 car of Ross Chastain sent it in deep and made contact with Chase Elliot spinning him out. Several others such as Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs also made contact. A few laps later Ty Dillion got into Austin Cindric pushing him wide off of the final turn. Cindric didn’t like that and ret...
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Atlanta Preview

The second points paying weekend of the NASCAR season leads us to the Atlanta Motor Speedway. 39 drivers are in the field for the Ambetter Health 400 on Sunday. William Byron looks to go 2 for 2 on the season as Daniel Suarez looks to defend his win from last year. The Penske cars are strong at the drafting tracks so they are a group to keep an eye out for as well. Joey Logano was the most recent winner at Atlanta as that win helped his bid for the championship. This weekend marks the 2nd weekend of the NASCAR season and it brings us to another drafting track that gives off the vibes of Daytona before it’s repave years ago. This track is like a hybrid superspeedway built on an intermediate track. The field typically starts off as a tight condensed pack but over time spreads out into individual packs like mid 2000s pack racing. Handling matters more at this track than it does at Daytona so it will take more than just a fast car to win. The talk of the week so far has been the aging...
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Daytona 500 Review

Another Daytona 500 is in the books and this one had a bit of everything. NASCAR’s Super Bowl was scheduled to start an hour early due to rain but due to some pre race festivities, the race got off to a later than desired start. A few rain delays later, we were able to see what we all tuned in Sunday for. 500 miles of high octane racing, and from start to finish you didn’t know what to expect. However what started as a day of highs ended in a day of frustration for many. Let’s look into it. The race was moved up an hour due to rain, and was scheduled to start however due to a guest appearance by the President of the United States Donald Trump, the race start was delayed. After his pre race festivities ended Chase Briscoe and Austin Cindric led the field to green. The urgency level immediately looked high with rain in the area, but it wasn’t for long as the 1st caution of the race fell on lap 11 due to rain. The cars were brought down pit road where they sat and waited out the hours of ...
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The Calm Before The Storm

At last we have made it to the final evening before The Great American race. We’ve gone through all of speedweek and now it’s time for the Main event. It’s been an entertaining week so far with a lot of thrills and spills. There’s been a lot of 2-3 wide racing along with crazy finishes and even controversy and it all comes down to tomorrow. We have past champions in the field coming back to make another attempt at the big race. We have champions from other forms of racing making their first start in the race. We even have Dale Jr back in the Daytona 500….sort of. The headlines are everywhere leading into this thing. The grid is set. The teams have made their finishing touches on the cars. The last thing to do is line em up and wake the green flag for 500 miles of racing around the famed Daytona International Speedway. The first thing to note is due to weather the race has been moved up an hour to try to beat the weather from that is coming through sometime tomorrow afternoo...
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