As NASCAR begins to recede back into its weekly pace of racing, versus eleven races in fourteen days. That pace was extremely hectic for Your Most Humble Sheriff. But that was then and it has returned to a workable load! I have finally felt like we are not running in circles chasing our tails anymore!…
Denny Hamlin won his second race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season in a rain-shortened Toyota 500 at Darlington Raceway. Hamlin was leading the race when the caution came out with 28 laps remaining when Kyle Busch punted Chase Elliott on the frontstetch. Elliott’s No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet made heavy contact with the…
This is week number two of the West Coast Swing, and all is going well. The NASCAR haulers have a very short run down I-15 this week, from Las Vegas to Fontana, and specifically to the Auto Club Speedway. The actual distance that these haulers have to travel is just 240 miles, a drop in…
It was a case of winner take-all throughout NASCAR’s Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway and Sunday night it was Kyle Busch who claimed both the race trophy and his second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season championship. His commanding 4.578-second victory over Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Martin Truex Jr. and Erik Jones makes Busch…
As The Playoffs begin this week, the focus shines a big light back out west to The Las Vegas Motor Speedway! Usually, in previous years, I would be setting up camp in the Vegas area for the race at LVMS. However, this year I will be bypassing this race in order to prepare for my…
Denny Hamlin bounced back from multiple setbacks to overtake Matt DiBenedetto with 11 laps to go and win the Bristol Night Race on Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway. Hamlin’s comeback spoiled DiBenedetto’s attempt at an improbable victory just days after Leavine Family Racing told him his services would not be needed for the 2020 season….
This week the NASCAR haulers return for the second race in the Irish Hills of Michigan, at the Michigan International Speedway. The NASCAR season is in its final throngs prior to cranking up the playoffs. This is the time of the season where, each Sunday the pretenders and the contenders get weeded out. It is…
Martin Truex, Jr. goes back-[to-back at Sonoma! Dominant in defense of last year’s victory in the Toyota/Save Mart 350, Martin Truex Jr. held off Kyle Busch, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, to win Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event at Sonoma Raceway. With three-lap fresher tires after the final set of green-flag pit stops…
There was an air of inevitability to Kyle Busch’s closing run in Sunday’s TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway. Busch was tracking down race leader Ryan Blaney after restarting fourth on Lap 239 of the fourth Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race of the season. Running in Blaney’s wake for 37 laps, Busch finally made the…
Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, his second-career victory in the “Great American Race.” The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota was one of only three cars not involved in a wreck throughout the 207 laps. It was a 1-2-3 sweep for JGR as teammates Kyle Busch…
