Frontstretch

2 days ago | frontstretch.com | Dalton Hopkins

There is perhaps no driver that has experienced more of a roller coaster NASCAR career in the last five years than second-generation racer Harrison Burton. In 2020, the Huntersville, N.C. native was one of the most exciting driving prospects in the sport of stock car racing. Then driving for Joe Gibbs Racing in the storied No. 20 NASCAR Xfinity Series entry, Burton amassed four wins, 15 top fives and 22 top 10s.

2 days ago | frontstretch.com | Adam Cheek

If you look up “aura” in the dictionary, you’ll probably find the featured photo for this article — Kyle Busch on top of a movie-themed race car amid a cloud of burnout smoke at Darlington Raceway. The 2008 season brought us a weird blend of movies on NASCAR bodies. Four more or less blockbusters — oddly, two of them starring Brendan Fraser — alongside a dumb comedy and a bad horror movie. Not all of the movies were winners, but one of the cars did make it to victory lane.

4 days ago | frontstretch.com | Tom Blackburn

Where’s the beef? That’s the question that billows out of the NTT IndyCar Series paddock and fandom through the years, as the quest for storylines always turns to the one nugget that seems missing. Rivalries.

4 days ago | frontstretch.com | Nick Tylwalk

If you keep running well and the only thing keeping you from the results you probably deserve is bad luck, eventually things are going to tilt back in your favor. For Ryan Blaney, that proved true, finally, at Nashville Superspeedway on June 1. Blaney entered the race comparing favorably to just about anyone in terms of top fives, top 10s and laps led. Yet it was that ugly DNF number—five in 13 starts—and the goose egg in the win column that couldn’t help but jump out.

4 days ago | frontstretch.com | Phil Allaway

Week No. 2 for Amazon Prime Video brought the NASCAR Cup Series to Nashville Superspeedway for a Sunday (June 1) night of action on the concrete. A schedule move by NASCAR meant that the race ran a month earlier than the past four years in an attempt to make things more comfortable for everyone involved. The result was that temperatures were far more comfortable for the sellout crowd and drivers. The downside was that the racing wasn’t quite as competitive as last year.