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Well compare Logano last year to the other 3 drivers he was up against.

And that's why I disagree with some here. Gibbs is the Toyota factory team, and all the connotations the term "factory team" has from other forms of auto racing is correct. The satellites are not allowed to beat the factory. Furniture Row did.

So the 2 chartered Rick Ware cars are TBA's, and they have a 3rd unchartered car with a driver.

SLIDE JOB!

The real issue here is Toyota and their strategy of having one giant factory team and nothing else outside of a car that is 25th in owner points means they have nowhere to put their high quality incoming talent. This is just dessert on their end for Furniture Row Racing shutting down. If Bell...

1988. I was 5 years old and a Geoff Bodine fan because he drove the #5 car. He won a race late in the season that year at North Wilkesboro I remember most. He was running 3rd late and Earnhardt and I think Terry Labonte were battling for the win. They banged in a corner which sent them both...

MIchael Schumacher not being a good teammate. This is news?

I doubt it will be because it's no longer owned by Roger Penske and Belle Isle is, but MICHIGAN!!! For those fans younger than me, the Michigan 500 used to be something. I see no point really for Indycars to race at the Charlotte roval. I don't see NASCAR going for it either. It's going to be...

Thoughts from being there: -McLaren had 2 haulers there for 1 car. They had 5 extra large golf carts. Merchandise trailer. They set the car too low during early practice and he was skidding around the track. I don't think this DNQ matches Penske in '95, but it's up there. It's higher than Rahal...

I don't want to say "we need more wrecks", but lack of wrecks demonstrates that no one is riding on the edge of being in control.

so 16-car grids are in the future? Joe Gibbs Racing are not really Joe Gibbs Racing. They're the Toyota factory team and that connotation the word carries from sportscar racing and motorcycle racing is apt. Otherwise the 2017 championship car would still be on the grid. I do wonder if the only...

Daytona and Talladega were made obsolete in 1987. We're 32 years on from Allison's crash and they have yet to change the tracks. I once saw NASCAR congratulate Keselowski after sending Edwards airborne into a catch fence at start-finish where a ton of spectators were because he did not go below...

Splitter for the Civic is probably an aerodynamic device that in a minor way improves fuel mileage of the Civic by controlling the air flow that goes underneath the car. It also likely acts as a minor skid plate. NASCAR Cup cars are not subject to federal fuel mileage regulations. If the reason...

On aero, F1 to make the show better has DRS, "drag reduction system". On specific straightaways they have it setup so that if you are within 2 seconds of a car in front of you, part of your rear wing will collapse and you have this rectangular hole in it along its length, and it acts to help you...

That understanding of aerodynamic effects is meaningless though. It has no relevance to roadcars because we don't drive single-seater rear-engine cars with wings on the front and rear. And also, this is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. Sukhoi and other Russian aircraft manufacturers laugh...

By Talladega standards, it didn't devolve into a crashfest, so that's a positive. The manufacturer-based tactics I can do without. I think it's a negative on modern-day Daytona/Talladega racing because with less guys out there racing for themselves and even the teams are subjected to the whims...

Part of it is the younger guys got pushed too soon. Be it a recession meaning veterans were priced out of racing for younger guys that take smaller paychecks or whatever. One flipside of having more than half the field for the Daytona 500 change in 4 years is that there's drivers in the field...

Thank God someone that is at least in the business in the past said this. I've been saying this for a couple years. It's worse for open wheel in comparison to stock cars, open wheel have wings that are less than relevant to road car design, expensive to design, expensive to replace, the front...

Jeff Gluck post-Bristol had an interesting point of how the same guys are up front and winning for a couple years now and ventured that the reason why is the newer drivers (3 years or less) are just not that good when compared to highly touted "young guns" of the past (Gordon of course or the...

Well so far this year, there are only 2 first-rate teams and Stewart-Haas are the best team that has not won a race yet by a pretty wide margin.