DAVID MCKEOWN/STAFF PHOTO Matt Kenseth celebrates by smoking his tires after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway last August.
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Jeff Gordon, center left, hugs Tony Stewart following the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday, July 24, 2016. “Someone said something to me about Tony would like to do something like that and I said, ‘Well, let’s get through this last restart first,”‘ Gordon said. So for all of you who watched Gordon and Stewart bid farewell Sunday, I hope you enjoyed it. It may be a while before you see something that memorable again. Perhaps its the reporter in me, but the big names and intriguing storylines behind those high-profile drivers sparked greater interest in what happened on the track. I’m watching Chase Elliott.
Then and now: No German driver has ever won back-to-back Grands Prix on home soil – a streak Nico Rosberg can end this weekend, having triumphed when F1 last visited Germany in 2014. Truex has won at Pocono before, but his driver rating there is just 83.8 over 21 races. Below is a look at the top-20 drivers in NASCAR for the 2016 season when it comes to merchandise sales. The latter two now evoke the usual fond farewells reserved for drivers fans have loved and hated over the years, because they were so often a threat to win. Keep sending them good vibes. Richmond’s coming quick. The pressure’s starting to build on those guys every week. “I think I’m concussed”. He’s running better than that but hasn’t been getting the finishes. Keselowski may be smart and brash, friendly cousin Carl Edwards can show more teeth than a horse-eating briars and smooth Denny Hamlin may yet turn into a champion. Sure, NASCAR can blame it on the southern weather invading the Midwest, but there are plenty of places that have been, or will be, just as hot with plenty more fans in attendance.
The race on Sunday was a bit boring due to Busch’s dominance and the single groove at Indy for stock cars, which makes one wonder if the track owners should consider extra paving low in the corners especially for the “taxi cabs”. “When we get back together, it’s going to be on”.
Covering Jeff Gordon since he launched his full-time NASCAR career in 1993, I’m not surprised he did an outstanding job as a Fox Sports racing analyst the first half of this season.
Because of the recently established five-year agreement between the sanctioning body and its tracks, Indianapolis is locked into hosting a Sprint Cup race through the 2020 season.
“It’s hard. It’s very unique”, Burton said.
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“So to me that’s a second and three quarters difference that means absolutely nothing, so I do not do sim”, he said.
