Let The Engines Roar: by Anthony Baker

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...

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...

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...