By Joseph Wolkin Sitting atop the pit box for Jamie McMurray’s No. 1 team, Matt McCall is adjusting quite well to his new role. The former Robert Yates Racing developmental driver is now a Sprint Cup Series crew chief. Entering his second season with McMurray, McCall is looking to lead the team into the Chase for the second consecutive year. You guys got into the Chase last year, but what is going to be the difference this year? “As an organization, we have put in a pretty big effort to make some gains in areas that we thought we were off at…

Carl Edwards, who grew up two hours from Kansas Speedway in Columbia, Missouri, has come close but never won in 17 Sprint Cup races at the place he considers his home track. So it's not entirely surprising that Edwards has said before that winning at Kansas would mean as much to him as winning the Daytona 500 -- another race he's never captured. It seems that Edwards would also be willing to part with his most cherished and, yes, expensive possessions to go to Victory Lane at Kansas Speedway. "I can't think of a possession that I wouldn't trade and I, mean, I…

Keselowski is a Talladega master Although not particularly known as a restrictor-plate ace, Brad Keselowski has quietly become a stud at Talladega Superspeedway. With Sunday’s win at the 2.66-mile track, the Team Penske driver has now amassed four wins here in 15 starts. Sunday’s triumph came in convincing fashion, as the 2012 Sprint Cup champion led a race-high 46 of 188 laps and was out front for the final 17 laps. “I'd rather be the guy that nobody talks about who has won here 10 times than the guy that everybody talks about who won here twice,” he said. “I never got…

Tony Stewart made the right choice to bail out Considering just how physical Sunday’s race turned out to be, Tony Stewart clearly made the right decision to get out of his car and hand over the wheel to relief driver Ty Dillon under the first caution period. Stewart, who returned the previous weekend at Richmond after missing the season’s first eight races while recouping from a back injury, was advised by his doctors to play it safe at Talladega – where a hard hit could have been a devastating setback to the three-time Sprint Cup Series champion’s efforts to fully heal. Had…