(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – Joe Gibbs Racing brought guns to a knife fight on Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway. But JGR’s Matt Kenseth did his teammates one better — he brought a howitzer. Leading 352 of 400 laps in a race he owned from the outset, Kenseth […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Seth Livingstone ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – Nobody, including Federated Auto Parts 400 winner Matt Kenseth could have seen this blue bolt of lightning coming on Saturday night. But on the final restart, there was the charging No. 43 of Aric Almirola and Richard Petty Motorsports on Kenseth’s rear bumper. Almirola […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – For Kasey Kahne, and others who share the same scenario, Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway (7:30 p.m. on NBCSN) may be the most difficult last-chance qualifier ever conceived in stock car racing. Kahne entered the race in a win-or-else […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Seth Livingstone ~ NASCAR Wire Service   RICHMOND, Va. – Jamie McMurray has accomplished things in NASCAR that more-heralded drivers will never match. He went to Victory Lane in just his second career Sprint Cup start – earlier than any other driver in his career. He was the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sunoco […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – Prodigious qualifier “Front Row Joe” Nemechek has an heir apparent. Call him “Front Row Joey” – as in Logano. The driver of the No, 22 Team Penske Ford won his fifth Coors Light Pole Award of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va. – How confident is Denny Hamlin that he’ll advance to the Championship 4 Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup at Homestead-Miami Speedway? So much so that he hasn’t even contemplated the prospect of surgery to his injured right knee, if he’s eliminated […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service If you want to fill out the final five positions in your Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup grid, there’s a simple solution — just do the math. Odds say the 16 drivers currently in Chase-eligible positions heading to Saturday’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DARLINGTON, S.C. – On a night when throwback paint schemes recalled NASCAR’s past in vivid color, and a low-downforce aerodynamic package suggested the future direction of the sport, Carl Edwards overcame early misfortune to win an exhilarating race at the Lady in Black. Grabbing the lead thanks […]

(NASCAR Wire Service) Reid Spencer ~ NASCAR Wire Service DARLINGTON, S.C. – After qualifying on the outside of the front row for Sunday’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway (7 p.m. ET on NBC), Kurt Busch offered a balanced perspective on prospects for the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition package. The second of two races […]