By Jared Turner ‘Bad Brad’ Gave It All He Had If Brad Keselowski ultimately fails to make it into the Championship 4 for the winner-take-all season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 22, the Team Penske driver may look back on Sunday’s race as his biggest opportunity missed. Starting from the pole is his No. 2 Ford, Keselowski was in a league of his own for the vast majority of the afternoon as he led a whopping 312 of 334 laps and basically ran alone out front and unchallenged. But when a caution for debris set up a late dash to checkered…

By Jerry Bonkowski If the way the first two elimination races in this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup played out are any indication, Kevin Harvick is in BIG trouble this Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway. Wait a minute, you’re likely saying to yourself. Harvick has won the last four races, five of the last six and seven races overall at PIR, the most wins for him on any track on the circuit. That’s almost one-third of his 31 career Sprint Cup wins. He literally owns the place. They ought to re-name the place Harvick International Raceway, right? With such a stellar…

By Jared Turner Long known for breeding major drama and conflict among drivers, Texas Motor Speedway has a way of bringing out the worst in people – especially in the final weeks of the season. On the heels of last Sunday’s wildly contentious showdown at Martinsville Speedway, just about anything is possible in this Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 where seven drivers will look to join Martinsville winner Jeff Gordon in claiming one of the four spots for the winner-take-all Championship Race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The driver arguably in most need of a win is Joey Logano, who was headed toward a likely…

Staff Report NASCAR today announced agreements with 23 tracks to field NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races for the next five years. Additionally, 24 tracks will host NASCAR XFINITY Series races through 2020. NASCAR also announced its 2016 schedule for both of these national series. The schedule and actual placement of the dates within each given season’s schedule beyond 2016 will be part of the on-going discussions between NASCAR and the tracks. Details are being finalized for the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule to be announced at a later time. “NASCAR and the tracks take seriously our collective responsibility to the…

By Jared Turner 5. "Rowdy" Is Looking Really Good Of the drivers not named Jeff Gordon, no one left Martinsville Speedway in a better spot than Kyle Busch, who recovered from an early spin to finish fifth – and leave Martinsville tied for second among the eight remaining title contenders. While this is certainly no guarantee of advancing to Homestead-Miami Speedway for the winner-take-all championship race, Busch has the luxury of not needing to go for broke in either of the next two races leading into Homestead. If Busch does make it to Homestead, he certainly can’t be overlooked. After all, no…