Similar Track Concept The theory behind this chart is that there are similar tracks (aka sister tracks) within the NASCAR schedule in terms of banking, distance and shape that a driver may excel at. What Have You Done For Me Lately? I am prone to look at a drivers performance more recently then over their [...]

Top 12 Features Competitive, New Look The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series just returned from Las Vegas … and, if folks could have cashed in on the odds of predicting what the series’ top 12 would look like after the season’s first three races, the payout would have been monumental. Heading into the KOBALT Tools 500 [...]

Lori Hamilton, wife of the late NASCAR racing legend Bobby Hamilton, is urging local fans take advantage of a free screening for oral, head and neck cancer that will be held on Saturday, March 7th and Sunday, March 8that Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia. The screening will be conducted by medical professionals from the Georgia [...]

“Brian Vickers has already gone through a lot in his Cup career. It’s easy to forget that he’s only 25. He has gone from being a Young Gun with one of the top organizations in racing to driving for an upstart team that was instantly dismissed by some as a career-killer. In his third season [...]

1 With a win from the pole (sort of) in front of his hometown crowd Kyle Busch moves up into the top spot for the first time in the 2009 season. With his win he also moved into sixth position in the point standings. Last year at Atlanta Kyle Busch lead 173 laps and averaged [...]

What is The C-List? The weekly guide on getting the most out of low-rent fantasy drivers; C-List drivers in the Yahoo! game and/or drivers valued at $20.00 or less in salary cap games. AJ Allmendinger – (last season @ Pep Boys Auto 500: 14th, 2007 @ Pep Boys Auto 500: 16th) Allmendinger has never started [...]

“Is anyone else going to hear Mike Joy saying, “Caution on the racetrack” in their sleep? Actually the calls for “Trouble in Turn 2″ were refreshing and brought back fond memories. Fourteen cautions that felt like forty and cars may still be spinning around. The race actually contained a fair amount of intrigue with the [...]

This week the series heads to Atlanta for the first time this early in the season. NASCAR believes that they should get much better weather this time of the year and thus be able to bring more fans to this venue. I’m not sure if this is going to work because it sounds like every [...]

WOW…Is Vegas the new ‘Dega? No, we didn’t see the “big one” but we did see some crazy stuff happen early and often. 14 Times the Yellow Flag waved and still it did not encapsulate all the craziness of the day, for instance, the last lap with Edwards running out of fuel/blowing an engine. (I [...]

The OBW Experts will get together the day after the Sprint Cup race to discuss the hot topics of the week. This week we chat about Las Vegas, Kyle Busch’s hometown victory and all those exploding engines. We will also take a look ahead to Sunday at Atlanta. What is the bigger story coming out [...]