Monthly Archives: October 2012

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Chase Tracker – The Contenders after Talladega

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By Jordan Dodson & Sharon/Fan4Racing

This week’s Chase Tracker after Talladega gave drivers a bit of a shakeup with the last lap wreck involving 25 drivers, including 8 Chase contenders, but left the top-three Chase contenders the same. Keselowski came in the points leader and left as the points leader, with Jimmie Johnson remaining in second place and Denny Hamlin, third in the point standings.

Also, Kyle Busch remains the Best of the Rest non-Chase contenders, after race four of the 2012 Chase season.

Starting with drivers ranked 12th through 1st, the following gives our assessment of each  Chase contender after Talladega’s Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500. Continue reading →

Rutledge Wood Gives Insight to his Incredible Job

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By Jason Schultz

Everyone agrees that Rutledge Wood is one funny, interesting and cool talent for the SPEED Channel. Rutledge has had an incredible and interesting journey to working for SPEED and he now is able to enjoy his passion, racing. You can see Rutledge every weekend at the race track and as well as on TV for Top Gear, a show all about cars. Rutledge went from being a motorsports enthusiast to a full-time worker in NASCAR. Over the last eight years, Rutledge has enjoyed working in the NASCAR industry and we all enjoy seeing him on TV.

Recently I was able to conduct an interview with Rutledge, and below he gives me some insight to his job and some other interesting facts. Continue reading →

NASCAR TV Schedule

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2012 NASCAR TV Schedule

ALL TIMES – EASTERN TIME

Friday – October 12

Nationwide Series

Charlotte – ESPN

7:00pm

Saturday – October 13

Sprint Cup Series

Charlotte – ABC

7:00pm

Saturday – October 27

Camping World Truck Series

Martinsville – SPEED

1:30pm

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Kenseth Survives Wild Last Lap for Win at Talladega

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Kenseth leads at Talladega
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By Jason Schultz

The new king of the restrictor plate races took home his second restrictor plate victory of the season.

Matt Kenseth was up front all day and by the time he crossed the finish line, he was first. Kenseth has been up front in all four restrictor plate races this season and he was leading on the last lap in three of them. Kenseth started off the season by winning the first restrictor plate race at Daytona. Then Kenseth went on to run well in the three remaining restrictor plate races. With Kenseth’s track-record at the restrictor plate races this year, he could be called the restrictor plate king. Continue reading →