By Jared Turner For the second year in a row, the fall Chase race at Charlotte Motor Speedway was run on Sunday during daytime hours after rain forced NASCAR and track officials to postpone the race from its originally scheduled Saturday night start time. Call it pure coincidence, bad timing or something else if you wish, but any time weather results in a race being pushed back a day in consecutive years, it’s never a bad idea to reevaluate the best day and start time for an event to be held. In the case of this year, no one could have predicted,…

By Jared Turner And then there were 12. With last Sunday’s elimination race at Dover International Speedway, Chris Buescher, Tony Stewart, Kyle Larson and Jamie McMurray all fell out of contention for the 2016 Sprint Cup title. Moving on to the next round and still in the hunt for the sport’s biggest prize are Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano, Chase Elliott, Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch, Austin Dillon and Kevin Harvick. Of the dozen remaining championship hopefuls, only Dillon and Elliott – a Sprint Cup Series rookie – are winless entering Saturday night’s…

By Jared Turner Austin Dillon Has To Step It Up To Advance Of the 12 remaining drivers in contention for the 2016 Sprint Cup Series championship, there’s one clear underdog of the bunch – and, hands-down, it’s Austin Dillon. While each of the other 11 championship hopefuls has recorded no fewer than six top-five finishes this year, Dillon has just four top fives. Even more concerning for the oldest grandson of veteran team owner Richard Childress is that he hasn’t come home with a top-five finish since the August race at Bristol Motor Speedway. In the six races since Bristol, Dillon has…