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For one final push, for one pivotal stretch Sunday night at Talladega, Front Row Motorsports -- the little team that roared -- was the most dominant team in NASCAR.

Jimmie Johnson wasn't the talk of Speedweeks -- Danica Patrick was. And while Patrick acquitted herself well, Johnson is hauling home the Daytona 500 hardware.

NASCAR's traveling circus, otherwise known as media day, took center stage at Daytona. The ringmaster? Danica Patrick.

Did you see the new face of NASCAR? The guy with the big grin staging his own victory party on national TV? Welcome to the top of the world, Brad Keselowski.

Jimmie Johnson entered Sunday's race at Phoenix favored by many to win his sixth Cup championship in seven years. Amazing how he slipped so suddenly to such an afterthought.

One Hall of Famer never let a driver overrule a crew chief, but that's what some drivers do today. Knowing their roles has Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski in a fight to the finish.

Clint Bowyer's storybook ending likely will have to wait. Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski have their own script in mind: a two-car dogfight that won't be settled until Homestead.

The Chad 'n' Jimmie show has dominated the NASCAR landscape since 2006. Well, our guy Ed Hinton has a message for the 48 crew: Beware! Big, bad Kesewolfeski is lurking.

Are Brad Keselowski and Paul Wolfe really the new Jimmie and Chad? What's in store at Martinsville? Does the Chase points system need an overhaul? Ed Hinton wonders ...

One way to ensure racers don't get behind the wheel when they're seriously ill or injured: Allow substitute drivers to accumulate points on their behalf.

Roger Penske has won 15 Indianapolis 500s and a dozen Indy car championships. But never a Cup. Can Brad Keselowski finally give The Captain what every one of his predecessors couldn't?

TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Here at Casino de Alabama, for the least predictable and most broadly decisive race of the season, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is taking a deep breath, placing both hands around all his chips and pushing them forward. For him, in the Chase...

Clint Bowyer could be in prime position to benefit most from the great Chase equalizer -- Talladega. The big three -- Keselowski, Johnson, Hamlin -- had better take notice.

Every Chase driver has a story, but only one driver's 2012 chapter ends with a championship. In our man's opinion, some stories would be better than others.

Ival Cooper died in 1984, three years before Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was born. Cooper became Mississippi's first great driver. Will Stenhouse become its greatest?

Brad Keselowski may have done more than just take a three-point lead over Jimmie Johnson in the Chase for the Cup. After all, it ain't easy rattling the five-time champ.