Brian Berg Jr.
brianbergjr
I have been a NASCAR fan for over 10 years and typically attend 3 to 4 Cup races a year.
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Kasey Kahne is Now Racing Ryan Newman for the Last Wild Card Spot in the Chase
Kasey Kahne has been having a horrible NASCAR season. He was supposed to move into the legendary Hendrick Motor Sports No. 5 car and pick up where he left off at his old team. It has not gone that way until now. Since the race at Richmond he has moved up from a major disappointing [...]
TweetJimmie Johnson will Attempt to Sweep his House at Charlotte Motor Speedway
Jimmie Johnson won a newly formatted NASCAR All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway last Saturday. It was controversial in that he won the first of four segments then hung around in the back biding his time till he was to start in the front for the first section. Once in the front, Jimmie Johnson again [...]
TweetNASCAR fans are also reevaluating during the All-Star Break
It has been said that NASCAR teams do a preliminary assessment or evaluation of their season during the All-Star break. Why shouldn’t NASCAR fans do the same? What would NASCAR fans consider? What might be important? Here are some ideas: Jeff Gordon – If you don’t know that Jeff Gordon has had a horrible season [...]
TweetBrian “Hootie” Chase is NASCAR Mechanix Wear First Quarter Award Winner
Brian “Hootie” Chase, jackman on the No. 56 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota, has used everything he learned on the New England short tracks to build quite a career in the highest level of NASCAR racing. The York, Maine native, who caught the racing bug in the 1980s when his dad took him to Beech Ridge [...]
TweetNASCAR Sprint All-Star Race is Night Racing at its Best
Last week’s NASCAR race at Darlington Raceway had an exciting finish but lacked the number of wrecks and caution flags that previous races there have had. Some say it is because the drivers are being too conservative, too careful in order to get and keep a maximum amount of championship points. We won’t have that [...]
TweetThere is Something Different about NASCAR This Year
For some reason the NASCAR season so far has had lots of green flag racing, lots of green flag pit stops. It has been missing lots of wrecks, carnage and yellow flags. For some, the type of racing we are seeing is boring and uneventful. This would appear to be a problem but is it? [...]
TweetJeff Gordon Needs to Get Back to His Winning Ways at Darlington Raceway
To say that Jeff Gordon is not having the year he intended in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing is a major understatement. With only two finishes in the top ten so far this year and six finishes worse than 20th. He is 23rd in points and unless Jeff Gordon wins a bunch of races he will [...]
TweetDarlington Raceway Made Stock Car Racing A Modern Sport
NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series history began in Charlotte, N.C. on June 19, 1949 with Jim Roper’s victory in a 150-mile race over the 3/4-mile dirt Charlotte Speedway. The foundations of the modern sport, however, were poured the following year with the opening of Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. The track’s 63rd running of the Bojangles’ [...]
TweetTony Stewart Has Fun with Interview after Talladega Race
Tony Stewart did not have a good day racing in the Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway last week. That is putting it mildly. He seemed to have run out of fuel a few times when he should not have. He avoided most of the wrecks. His issues during the race put him four laps down [...]
TweetTalladega: Brad Keselowski Wins Again Where it all Started
The Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway is always a really exciting restrictor plate race. This one was exciting but relative to past Talladega races it was tame. Although the race started about 45 minutes late due to rain earlier in the morning and track drying activities, it finished only five minutes late. Continuing the trend [...]
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