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At a social gathering recently, someone asked me about the NASCAR driver who has dominated the news in the offseason.
This is the toughest time of the year for NASCAR fans. We’re still closer to the end of the just-completed season than we are to the start of the next season. So for those who love to read the latest news about their favorite sport, this is the time of year when the biggest news story each day is usually headlined something like, “Speedway Honors Volunteers For Holding Christmas Toy Drive.”
I can’t believe this decade is almost over. I still haven’t even learned how to refer to it: The Double Zeros? Double Ohs? The Oughts? The Preteen Years?
After scanning hundreds of reader comments in the wake of Jimmie Johnson’s record fourth consecutive Sprint Cup championship, I have reached this conclusion: Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart and the other drivers in the Chase For The Sprint Cup who didn’t win the championship should be thoroughly embarrassed.
No matter what Mark Martin does in Sunday’s race at Homestead, if Jimmie Johnson finishes 25th or better, he clinches his fourth straight Sprint Cup championship.
Hey, have you heard that Jimmie Johnson is trying to win his fourth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup championship?
Dawn is fast approaching as I crawl in the dark through a wooded area near the Hendrick Motorsports complex in Harrisburg, N.C. I’m crawling, in camoflage fatigues, because I don’t want anyone in the vast Hendrick conspiracy to see me.
I thought I’d seen everything in this sport until the other day when a new book arrived in the mail here at NASCAR Scene.
More than a week later, I still don’t understand why NASCAR made an issue out of its inspection of the No. 48 and No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets after the Sprint Cup race at Dover.
Random thoughts heading into the race weekend at Kansas Speedway:
