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Mar 19 2014 - 9:04am

ONMC POWER 10 RANKINGS: New Guy On Top

By Ron Lemasters Jr.Well, after the first week of the ONMC Power 10, we're ready to get started on the second...and count coup on successess and ignore the ones we sort of...well...missed.As we did last week, in the inaugural edition of the ONMC Power...

Mar 18 2014 - 4:41pm

ACS Gets SAFER...Barriers Installed Where Hamlin Crashed

When Denny Hamlin augered into the inside wall last year at Auto Club Speedway, just after his slap-fight with Joey Logano, he hit very hard.And he happened to hit the wall where it was just wall, not the SAFER Barrier that rings the outside portion of...

Mar 18 2014 - 12:05pm

VIDEO: Smoke Is The Bandit, Buford T. Chapter

It's getting so that Tuesdays are not complete without another installment of Mobil 1's Smoke Is the Bandit video series.Today, we see The Bandit's antagonist, Sheriff Buford T. Justice, make a stop at the "choke and puke," just behind The Bandit....

Mar 18 2014 - 11:42am

Statistical Advance: Analyzing The Auto Club 400

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (March 17, 2014) – Below is a look at some of the top statistical performers at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. going into the Auto Club 400 on March 23.AUTO CLUB-SPECIFIC STATISTICS Greg Biffle (No. 16 3M Aerospace Ford)• ...

Mar 17 2014 - 2:51pm

iNSIDE SCOOP: The Night The Lights Went Out..Uh, On

The end of the Food City 500 will be debated for a while, because of the bizarre nature of its finish.It shouldn’t be, but there you go.First, nobody was catching Cousin Carl. Second, it’s a darn good thing some of the yellow lights flashed on two laps...

Mar 17 2014 - 2:21pm

PEMBERTON: Manual Override Switch Cause of Confusion

It was indeed human error--and not that much of one--that caused some of the caution lights to flash on in the closing laps of the Food City 500 at Bristol.So said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's VP of Competition and Racing Development, in the aftermath of...

Mar 17 2014 - 1:48pm

BLOG: Bettenhausen Could’ve Been the Best of All Time

Gary Bettenhausen died on Sunday at the age of 72.Having grown up with him racing around the Midwest, this is very sad. Had it not been for a fateful crash at Syracuse, N.Y. in 1974, he could have been bigger than Rick Mears in the Indy Car world, and...

Mar 17 2014 - 9:30am