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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“NASCAR heads to Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend for the fourth race of the 2009 NASCAR season. It’s a historical milestone at Atlanta this weekend. It’s the track’s 100th NASCAR Cup Series race. Here is a quick run down of trivial facts and statistics for this weekend’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in [...]

This week, the NASCAR Cup series is shipped back east to Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Kobalt Tools 500. In 1997, the track was rebuilt into a 1.54 mile, quad-oval that has become one of the fastest courses on the circuit. Following this race, the drivers get a week off before heading to Bristol. Kyle [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]