The Texas 500 weekend was not good for a number of teams, but for a few it was downright horrid. For one in particular it was yet another rough stretch on a road it has traveled all decade and with seemingly no positive ending in sight. This recent contact with a career pothole began entering the weekend at Texas, but the journey to that moment long predated the weekend. By no stretch can Petty Enterprises, the sport's ultimate bastion of history, consider this decade to have been anything but one of misery. A decade that began with the future seemingly coming back from the past reached a scene in 2008 where the team's namesake driver was benched in favor of an ... FULL STORY »
We at Catchfence.com have always been extremely interested in racing safety and have worked to present innovation and technology to that end. As any fan of this sport, we each have, over the years, been so saddened by the lost of ... FULL STORY »
Dale Arnold Jarrett has officially ended his Winston Cup career other than an appearence in NASCAR's all-star race in latter May. With his final points race he closed the book on a career that was a mixture of rockiness and ... FULL STORY »
With the 2008 Southeastern 500 at Bristol, the Car Of Tomorrow officially turned One Year old, and some retrospectives on the project have been published, with quotes from drivers and a few others. When one looks back on this machine, ... FULL STORY »
It's hard to believe that it's been more than a month since the ARCA RE/MAX Series has been in action, but business is about to pick up as the open test for the ARCA RE/MAX Series at Rockingham Speedway kicks ... FULL STORY »
In movies the term "breaking the fourth wall" goes back decades, but in NASCAR the fourth wall isn't quite the same, and it left Jeff Gordon pontificating about his Las Vegas wreck before winning the pole for the Atlanta 500. ... FULL STORY »
The 2008 NASCAR season has now run its first three races and there have been several themes permeating this opening stanza of the season. With Atlanta beckoning, some observations on the first three events this year - ROUSH RACING HAS PASSED ... FULL STORY »