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Dale Earnhardt Jr. believes it's "about time for us to win one here at Talladega."He's right.With the strength of Hendrick Motorsports behind him — and a history of five wins and half his 26 career starts here resulting in top 10 finishes — it's understandable that Earnhardt is brimming with confidence at Talladega Superspeedway."Really have had a lot of success here, a lot of great runs," said Earnhardt, who rolls off 12th on Sunday."Always feel confident when we come here that we are going to have a good car, going to know how to use it, and I think we feel that way coming in this weekend. We had a great run at Daytona (where he finished second in February)."Our confidence level is real good, real high. Just looking forward to getting a little practice in, make sure everything is working the way it is supposed to. Probably won't run a whole lot, but the weather here is going to be odd all weekend. Hopefully, we get an opportunity to race on Sunday and go to Victory Lane. We really fe...
If you want to look at how far NASCAR has come with its redesigned 2013 Sprint Cup cars, dubbed "G6" for sixth generation, all you have to do is look back to 2007, t...
Is the Gen-6 the fix?While the previous NASCAR Sprint Cup model (originally called the Car of Tomorrow but recently mysteriously changed to the Gen-5) was designed a...
Since we are getting ready for the Daytona 500 (Noon ET on FOX), a lot of fans ask me whom the best restrictor-plate racer is in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.As we k...
I am sure by now you and every race fan and probably every non-race fan has heard the news that Danica Patrick made NASCAR history on Sunday by winning the pole posi...
Misery had a name Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, and it was Tony Stewart.Stewart slammed into the first-turn wall only 10 laps into a race in which he was expecte...
What a great NASCAR race that was at Las Vegas! The new Gen-6 car sure put on an amazing show, one for the ages, for sure.That's the kind of effusive praise we shoul...
While NASCAR's new race car, the Gen-6, continues to be a work in progress, it is showing signs of improvements based on its performance in Sunday's race at Las Vega...
Denny Hamlin is refusing to pay a fine of $25,000 assessed to him by NASCAR for making derogatory comments about the new Sprint Cup Series race car, the Gen-6, last ...
When you are in the sport of NASCAR, you will find that people wear a lot of different hats. It's human nature to want what we want and for things to be the way we w...
Yes, the headline of this week's story is a little play on words, because obviously Carl didn't literally take the subway to Victory Circle. Actually, he did much be...
So now we have two races under our belt on two different style tracks with this new Generation 6 car. One of the consistencies that the teams are already telling me ...
The Nationwide Series team that had two cars involved in the horrific multi-car wreck during Saturday's Drive4COPD 300 at Daytona — including Kyle Larson's car, whic...
It has been a week since the severe penalties were handed down by NASCAR on the No. 2 and No. 22 cars of Penske Racing. I think some of the interesting twists have b...
Article by Greg PogueNestled into the rolling Maury County countryside an hour or so south of Nashville sits the Marlin family farm once owned by local racing legend...
It's time to play by the rules … or else.If anyone doubted how serious NASCAR is about policing the inspection process, they doubt no more. After the sanctioning bod...
NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow is a thing of the past.Designed primarily to improve driver safety following the death of Dale Earnhardt in the 2001 Daytona 500, the car ha...
Over the last seven years, it's been difficult to ascertain whether certain drivers were in a slump or simply didn't acclimate to the Car of Tomorrow.Yes, numbers te...
Could the Generation 6 Sprint Cup car be just what NASCAR needs?Now that the Car of Tomorrow has become yesterday's car model, will the Gen 6, a race car that more c...
In a few weeks, NASCAR's much-discussed Gen-Six Sprint Cup car will officially debut at Daytona International Speedway.The last time NASCAR unveiled a "new" race car...