By Steve Post on Tuesday, October 27, 2009

This weekend the NASCAR Sprint Cup tour hits the little town of Martinsville, Va. for the TUMS Fast Relief 500; just as the series has been doing for 61 years.
On September 25, 1949 Red Byron drove Raymond Parks ’49 Oldsmobile to the $1,500 payday in the first strictly stock (forefunner to the Sprint Cup Series) race at Martinsville Speedway, a half-mile dirt track at the time.

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By Cathy Elliott on Thursday, October 22, 2009

There’s an old Chinese proverb which says, “May you live in interesting times.”

OK, that’s not entirely truthful. It isn’t a proverb; it’s a curse.

“Interesting times,” you see, aren’t always good times. It just depends on which side of the fence you find yourself standing.
 

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By Cathy Elliott on Thursday, October 15, 2009

In a highly-anticipated announcement that has been generating a lot of discussion -- and even better, hours upon hours of spirited debate -- the members of the new NASCAR Hall of Fame’s inaugural class have been announced.

The announcement took place in the ballroom of the Charlotte Convention Center on October 14, an ideal location for such an event.
 

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