Opinion: Driver stepping up to replace voice lost in garage when Intimidator died
NASCAR on Monday tried to figure out why Kyle Busch’s HANS device cracked during a spectacular crash at Talladega Superspeedway.
The frustrated driver, meanwhile, was trying to make sense of two hard wrecks that ruined his weekend.
Busch wrecked in Saturday’s Busch Series event, when he was hit from behind and his car ended up on its roof before rolling several times through the grass. His HANS device, a NASCAR-mandated head-and-neck restraint system, cracked in the accident.
NASCARJamie McMurray had yet another strong outing Sunday at Talladega. Gerrit Ritt includes him in his top fantasy performers.
NASCARSeven of the fastest 43 qualifiers didn’t race at Talladega. Larry McReynolds says NASCAR should reconsider the top 35 rule.
NASCARAn Eastern Oregon port district would
welcome a NASCAR track on its 14-hundred acres of sagebrugh near
the Columbia River town of Boardman.
Can’t get enough of four-wide, nose-to-tail racing and wrecking at 190 mph? Watch the entire Talladega race again.
NASCARThe season opened with a cheating scandal that threatened the integrity of NASCAR’s biggest race of the year. A mere two months later, its credibility is again under scrutiny because Tony Stewart likened the sport to professional wrestling.
Even though the two-time champion retracted his comments, the damage was already done.
NASCARIn a twist of irony, those very debris cautions Tony Stewart railed against nearly saved his race.
But a myriad of other problems, including an accident on the next-to-last lap, relegated Stewart to a 28th-place finish Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. It ended a wild week for the two-time champion, who likened NASCAR to pro wrestling in a damaging indictment of the sport.
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