by Ryan Isley When the one team (or conference) that seems to have a stranglehold on a sport is struggling, it becomes headline news. This is just as true in NASCAR as it is in college football. So when Hendrick Motorsports had gone winless through five races in this NASCAR Monster Energy season and only
With the new format in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup, the basic idea was win and you’re in. Well, things aren’t that easy for Chris Buescher this season. And it doesn’t look to get any easier this week. After cruising to the Xfinity Series championship last season (he never relinquished the top spot
Please note that this episode of Push to Pass is being released a few days later than anticipated due to circumstances beyond our control. Life has it’s own plans sometimes, which is strangely fitting for our focus this week… We opted to not take a week off from recording, but rather come together to support
Concussions have become a major hot button issue in sports over the past few years. NASCAR is no exception, as Dale Earnhardt, Jr. will be missing the New Hampshire 301 this week after suffering from concussion-like symptoms. Earnhardt, Jr., now 41 years of age, has been feeling the symptoms over the past couple of weeks
With the news that Dale Earnhardt, Jr. would be missing at least this weekend’s New Hampshire 301 due to issues with concussion-like symptoms, it brings up a question of whether or not NASCAR might have a bigger problem on its hands. While Earnhardt, Jr. has suffered from these symptoms before and even missed races in
In 2012, Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s run for a possible championship was cut short when he missed two races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup due to a concussion after multiple wrecks. This season, even getting into the Chase has been made more difficult by those same concussion-like symptoms. Earnhardt Jr. announced on Thursday that
by Ryan Isley When Kyle Busch took the checkered flag at Kentucky Speedway on Friday night for his fifth win of the season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, I didn’t see it. Why? Because I turned the race off with 50 laps to go knowing what the outcome would ultimately be. It was yet another
by Ryan Isley Deadpool may have had a great weekend at the box office last week, but NASCAR just had a hell of an opening weekend for the 2016 season. Johnny Sauter won the NextEra Energy Resources 250 in the Camping World Truck Series Friday night in what was a great race from start to
by Ryan Isley When the Southeast Super Trucks Series returns to the track on March 26 at Tri-County Motor Speedway in North Carolina, Northeast Ohio’s Ricky Bowers will be there. The 21-year-old will enter his second season in the series for Leicht Motorsports in the No. 61 truck. To read about how Bowers got his
by Ryan Isley It’s that time of year again – where NASCAR ends its winter vacation and heads to Daytona to get back on track for another season. This year instead of doing a lengthy prediction series or post as I have done in the past, I decided to come up with a bunch of
