I wish Alexis DeJoria well for the future as her driving career comes to a close at the end of this season. She sat down with me in the spring of 2016 and shared some of her NHRA and personal stories....
Some big NASCAR names have stepped out of the driver's seat. Who would make big Daytona 500 one-shot splashes? http://speedwayreport.com/drivers-to-spice-up-the-2018-daytona-500/
Speedway Report columnist Paul Blaufuss checks in on F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, NHRA, and IMSA. http://speedwayreport.com/a-cranky-curmudgeon-mulls-over-the-2017-racing-year/
The vanilla ice cream is drizzled in chocolate syrup. Some white bread is toasted and covered with cinnamon and powdered sugar. A pair of Cup drivers forgot about political correctness and let the attitudes and emotions fly at Dover. Clint Bowyers...
It is June 1976. I am seven years old. And I fell in love. The kind of love you remember from that first cute girl in Kindergarten. Or a favorite Saturday morning cartoon. Or a song from Moms car radio while still strapped to a booster seat. My...
The memory of Chase Elliott scoring his big Late Model victory at North Wilkesboro over Labor Day weekend is still fresh in my mind. It stirred a much older but indelible memory from Labor Day weekend 25 years ago in 1985; his father Bill Elliott...
When the Labor Day weekend brings forth gorgeous weather, barely any trace of clouds, a Carolina blue sky, and temperature in the 80s, that can be deemed a perfect day. Thousands will agree not because of the weather conditions. But because the...
Man, it was awful. Regular readers of my columns know how much of a proponent I am of the grassroots level of auto racing. At the end of my weekly radio show I encourage listeners to get out and support their local racetrack. My family and I went...
This is a tale about winning. Not about showing up, being there, running well or finishing in the top five. Winning. And how hard it is. I have watched auto racing from the grandstands since 1976. Winning races looked easy. I wanted to be a race...
The Michigan 400 meant different things to different people. This particular race may have given us a microcosm of the championship battle. Teams show strength at different times of the year. In the past drivers have been powerhouses leading into...
Chip Ganassi had one heck of a weekend. Again. Drivers on his payroll visited victory lane on three separate occasions. Juan Pablo Montoya claimed his second career Cup win at Watkins Glen on Sunday. Dario Franchitti won the Indycar race at...
The race is over. The winner is doing burnouts on the frontstretch. The pit crew is high fiving each other and ready to spray sponsor beverage products into the air in Victory Lane. Such is the image of first place.Fans file out of the grandstands...
