The NASCAR Cup Series will travel to the Heartland for some mid-week racing at Kansas Speedway. This track is a 1.5-mile tri-oval track, similar to Kentucky and Las Vegas. The stats from the last two races (Texas and Kentucky) should give us an idea of which drivers will be fast Thursday night, but it is […]
Category: Garage Talk Notes
Texas Race Notes
The NASCAR Cup Series will compete at another 1.5-mile track this week. Texas Speedway is slightly different from Kentucky Speedway. The track in No Limits Texas is a quad oval with more banking the Kentucky. We should be able to use the data from the race at Kentucky for our picks this week, but I […]
Kentucky Race Notes
NASCAR will head to the Blue Grass state Sunday to compete at Kentucky Speedway. This track is a 1.5-mile tri-oval track (Same as Kansas, Chicago and Las Vegas). The only data that is similar to Kentucky is from the race at Las Vegas, but that was a long time ago. We can use the results […]
Driver Rankings for Indianapolis
The Cup Series will join the Xfinity Series and the IndyCar Series at the most iconic track in the United States, Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Cup Series has been competing at the Brickyard 26 years now (Really? I remember going to the first race and it feels like yesterday. Damn I am getting old…LOL).The trend […]
Indianapolis Race Notes
The double-header at Pocono is complete and now NASCAR is set up for another double-header. This time it will be a NASCAR + IndyCar double-header at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It would have been cool to see some of the Cup Stars pull the double this weekend but it looks like that is not going to […]
Pocono Race Notes
The NASCAR Cup Series will travel to Pocono Raceway this weekend for two races. It is hard to compare Pocono to any other track on the schedule. The best way to predict what will happen Saturday is to evaluate what happened at the Tricky Triangle last year. Here are my notes from the last race […]
Talladega Race Notes
The races at Talladega are the most unpredictable on the schedule. Trying to predict a finishing order is simply a waste of time. The “Big One” is going to happen, and it will take out the best cars. We can analyze the data and look at the drivers who are better than others at missing […]
Atlanta Race Notes
The Cup Series will travel to Atlanta Motor Speedway Sunday. The drivers love racing on this old, worn out track and fans love the show they put on. Drivers must know how to manage their tires in this long race. Some are better than others. So the best way to predict the future is to […]
Charlotte Race Notes
The NASCAR Cup Series will return home this week to compete in the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday and another 500(K) race on Wednesday. What we see at Charlotte will likely be closer to what we had in Las Vegas than the results from the two races at Darlington. Last year’s race came down to a […]
Cup Series: Garage Talk Notes for Phoenix
The Cup Series will stay on the west coast this week as they compete in the ISM Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. This will be the last race before the Cup Series heads back to the east coast. The teams built their Phoenix cars before the season began, so the teams with speed in the last […]