By Jared Turner Tony Stewart had a lot of audacity walking over and lambasting Martin Truex Jr. on pit road for allegedly cutting him off in the closing laps of Sunday’s Auto Club 400. This is the same Stewart – mind you – who, despite competing for one of the sport’s best organizations, entered Sunday’s race having finished no better than 30th in four previous outings this year. Moreover, Stewart hasn’t won a race since June 2, 2013 – an eternity ago by NASCAR standards. Truex, meanwhile, is off to easily the best start of his Sprint Cup career, with five finishes…

By Jerry Bonkowski I spend a great deal of time scanning wires for photos of NASCAR drivers, seeking the photo that best illustrates the story that I am writing or editing. The past two weekends – particularly the most recent race weekend at Auto Club Speedway – I came upon a rather interesting observation. Since he came back from a NASCAR-imposed three-race suspension to start the season, I’d say that at least 90 to 95 percent of photos of Kurt Busch have shown him without a smile on his face. Big deal, right? But bear with me as I explain further. In…

By Ben White Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 Roush-Fenway Fords, took a giant step toward stardom when he became the surprise winner of the Daytona 500 in 2011 while driving for Wood Brothers Racing. It all started for the Knoxville, Tenn. native when he was five years of age racing go-karts. Over the next eight years, he collected three world championships with over 300 feature wins. Bayne competed in the Allison Legacy Series at age 13 and was named their youngest top rookie. He logged 14 wins, 19 pole positions and 30 top-five finishes in 41 starts in 2005. That…