By Mike Mulhern ATLANTA So what next? A giant meteorite striking the track? “I’m not sure how much more bizarre this season can get,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said plaintively after clearing post-crash analysis at the infield medical center Sunday night, as he tried to understand just how a rear wheel could fall off his […]
By Mike Mulhern ATLANTA What a wild and crazy finish, another overtime shootout. But then it’s been a crazy championship chase. This time it was water in the gasoline and wheels falling off cars and blown right-front tires. Jimmie Johnson, with his eighth win of the season Sunday, and his second straight, chopped teammate […]
By Mike Mulhern ATLANTA Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson may have the easy part of it these final four races of the year, because all they’ve got to do is win a championship. And whichever one wins, they’ll both be celebrating. But for the rest of these guys the NASCAR season is not winding […]
By Mike Mulhern ATLANTA To their my-how-time-flies files, Jeff Gordon and Richard Petty just added another photograph, together, this one marking now a NASCAR milestone: “Neither one of us could believe it had been 15 years ago,” Gordon says of that quirk of history, the afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway when he made his […]
By Mike Mulhern ATLANTA Bruton Smith, as he awaited Friday night’s special vote on his planned $60 million NHRA drag strip by the Concord City Council, repeated his point that he is “90 percent” certain to tear down Lowe’s Motor Speedway and build a new NASCAR track somewhere within an 18-mile radius of the […]