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5 days ago | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
Ryan Blaney got the strong drive to the finish that he needed on Sunday night (June 1) at Nashville Superspeedway, leading five times for 139 laps on the way to his first victory of the season. Blaney was on point in the race’s final stage, pacing the field on the way to the win. Blaney benefitted with a rather calm conclusion. After four cautions in the second stage, the last 102 laps of the night were run under green.
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1 week ago | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
The irony was strong with last week’s announcement of the next NASCAR Hall of Fame Class. No, it has nothing to do with anything related to Ray Hendrick, Harry Gant, or Kurt Busch. But on the week of one of the sport’s crown jewel events at nearby Charlotte Motor Speedway, Humpy Wheeler was named as the upcoming Landmark Award recipient. To say that Wheeler is worthy of this honor is an understatement.
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3 weeks ago | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
It was always an understood fact. NASCAR staged races on most Sundays through the years with two exceptions – Mother’s Day and Easter Sunday. Why? As my dad explained one year while riding in his truck about why there was no race that weekend, “Because Mrs. France said so.”Yes, some traditions come and go. NASCAR bid farewell to fans rushing home from church just in time for the 1 p.m. ESPN Speedworld telecast and the 400-mile July race at Daytona International Speedway.
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1 month ago | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
LEEDS, Ala. βNot even the Chamber of Commerce Weather that drew fans into Birmingham to watch Sunday’s (May 4) Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park could alter the recent trend in the NTT IndyCar Series. Aside from the opening laps of the season at the street course in St. Petersburg, all four races so far this year have now been caution-free. It’s a contrast to last year’s event, where the caution flag flew four times.
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1 month ago | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
Photo finishes. They are a race promoter’s dream. Forget how the rest of a race plays out. If an event ends in a finish by inches, it’s an easy sell to get play on mainstream highlights, implying that the race was decided from start to finish within close quarters.
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2 months ago | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
Think of any on-track transgression, and the wait begins:“What kind of punishment, if any, will NASCAR dole out?”But repeated on-track shows of knuckle-headed aggression by drivers, the most recent being Saturday’s (March 29) NASCAR Xfinity Series race, hammer home the point that any stern words or other actions from the sport’s sanctioning body are not having the desired impact.
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2 months ago | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
When a driver gets their first career win in a series, notably when it’s for a team that’s only checkered flag in the past seven seasons came on a superspeedway, words like “stunning,” “shocking” and “upset” may come to mind. Leave those words aside when it comes to what Josh Berry did on Sunday (March 16) at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Berry’s exploits on Sunday did not come out of nowhere.
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
HAMPTON, Ga. — 29 times a winner in the NASCAR Cup Series, Kyle Larson has never won on a superspeedway/drafting track. He nearly changed that in Sunday’s (Feb. 23) Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. As the field rolled through turns 3 and 4 coming to the line in overtime, Larson led on the inside line, only to have Christopher Bell inch into the lead with Carson Hocevar joining in to make it a three-way race for the lead.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
Throughout its long history, Wood Brothers Racing has seen no shortage of its drivers find their way to victory lane. The tracks have been different, as have the stakes and emotions each time that the team from Stuart, Va., has reigned victorious. But few emotions resonated more than in August at Daytona International Speedway when Harrison Burton pulled off a stunning victory for his first NASCAR Cup Series win and the 100th overall win for WBR.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Tags Kyle Larson |Ricky Stenhouse Jr. |William D. Byron |Brad Harrison
The official record shows William Byron finished third on Sunday (Oct. 6) at Talladega Superspeedway and Christopher Bell was sixth. In a race that usually amounts to a demolition derby, and Sunday (Oct. 6) was that, taking a chance is not worth it if you’re in a position to advance by way of points to the next round of the playoffs. The goal for these drivers is not so much to win, but rather to survive. Both did that by probably not forcing the issue. But what if this was not a postseason race?
