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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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?
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
Look up and down the list of acclaimed NASCAR drivers and you’ll find plenty of drivers to have won numerous races. Beyond that, there are the seven-time champions like Dale Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson and Richard Petty, as well as multi-time champions such as Darrell Waltrip, Bobby Allison, Cale Yarborough, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch. But there’s also another group: drivers who have won lots of races but not a championship.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
Will Power entered Sunday’s (Sept. 15) Music City Grand Prix trying to chase down Alex Palou for an IndyCar title. Those hopes came undone for Power early in the season finale at Nashville Superspeedway. Palou collected his third series title, and second consecutive, after Power’s lap belt came undone 12 circuits into the race. The issue forced Power him into the pits for multiple laps and enabling Palou to seal his third IndyCar title.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
frontstretch.com | Brad Harrison
Last June in the media center at World Wide Technology Raceway, when drivers filed in for their media availabilities, Chase Briscoe and his Stewart-Haas Racing teammates were among the more anticipated ones for the sport’s media to hear from. It had nothing to do with a race win or prospects to win at Gateway. It had everything to do with the news that at the end of the season, Stewart-Haas would cease operations.
