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Homestead Chase Chances
Ryan McGeeOnce again, it's time to tunnel into the numbers of the Chase like an earthworm hopped up on Red Bull. For the final time this year, we'll rank the Ch...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009
The Jimmie Johnson story, again
Ryan McGee...championship." ESPN's television crew learned about that anti-Johnson sentiment during their coverage of the Dickies 500 at Texas two weekends ago. Johnson wrecked hard just two laps into the event, sending his car...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009
The Chicken Bone Section
Ryan McGeeAfter a brief hiatus, we now return you to the only place where rubber dust, carbon monoxide and Crisco combine to form a taste in one's mouth that on...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009
Missing the Mark (Martin)
Ryan McGee...that might match the garage-wide eruption of joy that came after Dale Earnhardt's 1998 Daytona 500 victory. But until then, Mark Martin will have to continue to live with the title "Best...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2009
Phoenix Chase chances, Friday the 13th edition
Ryan McGee...13th 73.8 Brian Vickers (12) 10 0 1 19.3 19th 75.8 * Subway Fresh Fit 500, won by Mark Martin ** Driver Rating has been compiled by NASCAR since 2005 NASCAR numerology, Friday the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009
Texas Chase Chasers
Ryan McGee...Daytona race we've ever seen? Thanks, Jack J. in Kansas City, Kan. Dear Jack J., Yes, I have seen plenty of superspeedway races that were worse than the oft-maligned Amp Energy 500...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009
Danica could face glass ceiling in NASCAR
Ryan McGee...an engine early in the race. One month later, Christian took the green flag on the legendary Daytona Beach and Road Course, along with Flock's sister Ethel Mobley, and Louise Smith, one of only...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 05, 2009
Remembering Walter Payton, racing fan
Ryan McGee...to stand on the grid at the Indianapolis 500, tirelessly signing autographs and completely understanding what it...d let me run a few laps at Daytona. Wouldn't that be cool?" I told him...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 04, 2009
Who is Robert Richardson?
Ryan McGeeWhen Sunday's Amp Energy 500 ended, the initial finishing order that we were handed by NASCAR ended up being tossed into the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009
Denny Hamlin gets his clock cleaned
Ryan McGee...a little loud around the Petty house at noon and midnight." 2. Harley J. Earl Trophy, Daytona 500 -- "First off, it's just cool looking," says Kevin Harvick, pointing to the silver replica of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2009
Junior Nation makes some noise
Ryan McGeeJunior Nation is taking it to the streets. Or, more accurately, the information superhighway. Distraught, disillusioned and just flat-out disappoint...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2009
Introducing the Chicken Bone Section
Ryan McGee...that's irrelevant because, "We don't come to the racetrack to sleep." Throttle Linkage •The Daytona Beach News-Journal's Godwin Kelly opens up a can of very large worms about Dale Earnhardt...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 20, 2009
Jimmie's current run is stuff of legend
Ryan McGee...DNF's, including the infamous "And there's a fight!" throwdown at the end of the Daytona 500. Darrell Waltrip 1981-84 When Yarborough left Junior Johnson's team at the end of the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 19, 2009
Moonshiners, (re)unite!
Ryan McGeeThere are times in one's life that my man Marty Smith and I like to call "time machine moments." Those out-of-body experiences that make you wish you ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 14, 2009
And the inaugural HOF class is ...
Ryan McGee...at the list and it's pretty easy to figure out." The list that the 1961 Daytona 500 winner was referring to is the 25 finalists that the Hall's 50 voters have to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 13, 2009
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