“NASCAR heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend for the third race of the 2009 NASCAR season. Here is a quick run down of trivial facts and statistics for this weekend’s Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, NV. Las Vegas Motor Speedway History The first NASCAR race at Las Vegas [...]

Street Pole Banners Signed By 2009 Daytona 500 Champion Matt Kenseth Race fans will have the opportunity to add a unique keepsake from the 51st annual Daytona 500 to their collection as well as donate to a great cause. Matt Kenseth, the winner of last weekend’s 51st annual Daytona 500, will autograph 150 street pole [...]

“The Winning Robot is back. A lot is made about the Daytona 500 winner and how it’s not a telltale sign for the season or how Matt Kenseth winning the first two races of the season is historical. Realistically the result is no surprise. Roush has won the last five spring races at Fontana/California/Auto Club [...]

This week the series heads to Las Vegas, Nevada for the running of the Shelby 427.The engines won’t be as much of a factor this week as they were last week at Fontana because the track is a half-mile shorter and has a bit more banking in the corners which are 20 degrees compared to [...]

This past week had some go or go-homers in the Champs section to pick from. I hope you didn’t choose one of them. On the other Hand, I hope you had a few of these guys…. Champs J. Gordon = 175 Biffle = 165 Chumps Harvick = 49 Allmendinger =76 Sleepers Hamlin = 150 Johnson= [...]

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 Fontana, Matt Kenseth’s attempt for a three-peat, Kyle Busch’s near trifecta and striking the windshield with various items. We’ll also take a peak ahead to Sunday at Las Vegas. [...]

“So your Fantasy rosters are filled out and you feel like you have a pretty good handle on who to watch for on Sunday. Which drivers you think will do well, which drivers to avoid, and which driver with a name rhyming with Fryin’ Snickers (sounds fattening)” you hope will sidle up to a certain [...]

“Jeff Burton will trade in his fire suit and helmet for an acting role on ABC’s General Hospital. Burton, driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet, will visit the set of General Hospital on Thursday to take part in scenes with top neurosurgeon and Port Charles resident Dr. Patrick Drake. Drake’s character, played by Canadian actor [...]

“Paul Chodora, a licensed crew member in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, has been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body’s substance abuse policy. On Feb. 11, Chodora was found to have violated Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 7-5 (violation of the NASCAR substance abuse policy) of the 2009 [...]

By now everyone knows that NASCAR has banned testing at all NASCAR-sanctioned tracks (including regional short tracks like Greenville-Pickens and Irwindale Speedway). Daytona was always going to be a race disconnected to the rest of the season, but now that the schedule heads to three straight intermediate tracks we will really find out how important [...]