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Jared C. Tilton/Getty ImagesLast year, Brad Keselowski was the first car across at Talladega. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest, highest-banked track on the Sprint Cup Series circuit -- and it's also one of the wildest. What should you know ...

AP Photo/Russell LaBounty Kyle Busch won earlier this season at Richmond, his fourth win in the last seven races at the track. Busch enters the Chase cutoff race with a 12-point lead over Jeff Gordon for the final Chase spot. With just one race rem...

Here we are this weekend at Kentucky Speedway, a track where the key statistic coming into the race may be the number of parking spots added (PSA) since last year's debacle. But let's stick to the quality of the racing, and not whether the parking w...

This weekend at Dover, it looks like the stars are aligning for a classic, dominant Jimmie Johnson kind of day. His team, Hendrick Motorsports, has won the past four events: two points races (Johnson at Darlington and Kasey Kahne at Charlotte) to g...

I'll be the first to admit that numbers can be misleading. Of course, except mine. My statistics have only good intentions, looking to guide you and me together on a path of enlightenment. But other numbers can be misleading, especially when it com...

Who doesn't love a Saturday night race with a little controversy? Likewise, who doesn't love a blog with a little controversy? Next step: Find a controversy. Maybe Formula One blogger Tom McKean and I are high-level art thieves. Or Marty Smith and I...

On Sunday at Kansas Speedway, it was Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. battling for the win -- a race win and a symbolic win. See, one of the subplots of the season has been the emergence of Michael Waltrip Racing and whether it has surpassed Joe G...

Looking straight up at the Sprint Cup winners at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, two teams have dominated Victory Lane -- Hendrick Motorsports and Roush Fenway Racing, combining to win 12 of the 14 races at the track. And although Kyle Busch and Carl Edw...

The Daytona 500 can be described with several words, words like prestigious, legendary and unpredictable. Unfortunately for me, as a stats-minded blogger, the unpredictable part doesn't bode well for what I do, which is trying to find stats and tren...

You haven't heard from me in a couple of months, but it's not like I haven't been hard at work. I've been off in the Himalayas, pondering, reflecting and crunching the numbers in search of a fine year in NASCAR statistics and analysis. OK, that's...

The debate rages on for the new Bristol versus the old Bristol. Well, let me step in and play peacemaker by telling you the new Bristol is still pretty wild. For one, you have the side-by-side racing replacing the previous style, in which if you wer...

Kyle Busch is simply dominant at Bristol. And with the Sprint Summer Showdown competition winding down, he's primed to have an extra million dollars in his firesuit.

Occasionally all this number digging and stat crunching pays off. I know our "NASCAR Now" analysts appreciate it, but let's be honest, it's nice when I sound smart. Nearly two months ago, before the Kentucky race, I wrote that despite being third in...

This NASCAR season has me befuddled, and I love it. There have been 15 different race winners already, with five of them winning for the first time. There's been no dominant driver, as Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick co-lead the series with three wins...

Indianapolis Motor Speedway, for lack of a better word, is special. I'm totally into the historic nature of the track, all the great races and moments that have taken place there, including this year's Indianapolis 500, which was both riveting and h...

One question I get asked more than others (besides that annoying "why do they always turn left?" question) is what driver do I root for? Placing journalistic integrity (of which I have a little) aside, when I started watching NASCAR, I rooted for B...