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Top-Ten NASCAR Superspeedway Drivers of All Time

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Dale Earnhardt Sr. is my number one pick as NASCAR's best all-time superspeedway racers. Photo - Getty Images

Dale Earnhardt Sr. is my number one pick as NASCAR’s best all-time superspeedway drivers. Photo – Getty Images

With NASCAR heading to the famous Talladega Superspeedway this weekend I went through and ranked my top-ten superspeedway drivers of all time. Let’s be honest, it is tremendously hard to rank anything related to all time drivers with the amount of talent seen through the years. So I’ve done my homework and came up with who I think are the best superspeedway drivers of all time: Continue reading →

Throwback Thursday: NASCAR Hall of Fame Nominee Isaac has ‘Big’ Win in Texas

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In a record-setting season, one race stood above all for NASCAR Hall of Fame (NHOF) nominee Bobby Isaac. Despite setting a still-standing NASCAR record with 19 pole awards and winning a career-high 17 races, Isaac most cherished his 1969 season-ending victory at Texas World Speedway.

The two-mile track in College Station, Texas, was built as a ‘sister track’ to Michigan International Speedway, which also hosted its first NASCAR premier series race in 1969.  Its inaugural race, the Texas 500, was dominated by NHOF nominee Buddy Baker who led 150 laps in a Cotton Owens owned Dodge.  Baker coughed up the potential victory, however, when he crashed under caution trying to read the pit board with 21 laps remaining. Isaac was in position to snatch the win, and led 19 of the final 21 laps to end the season in Victory Lane.  Continue reading →

NASCAR Announces Nominees for 2014 NASCAR Hall of Fame Class, Inaugural Landmark Award

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HOF Finals 4.18.07

Baker, Elliott, Labonte, Stefanik, Yates Added To Ballot 

Following the first in-person meeting among the NASCAR Hall of Fame nominating committee in the hall’s history, NASCAR today announced the 20 nominees for the 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame’s sixth induction class, as well as the five nominees for the inaugural Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR.  Continue reading →

NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductee – Buck Baker

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Buck Baker
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Baker’s Tough Attitude Perfect For NASCAR’s Early Year

First Winner Of Consecutive Titles Bulled Way To NASCAR Hall of Fame

Buck Baker personified the term “old school.”

Elzie Wylie “Buck” Baker, winner of 46 NASCAR Sprint Cup races and the series’ first back-to-back champion, personified the phrase “no quarter asked and none given.”

Baker, whose NASCAR career spanned portions of four decades beginning in 1949, had one goal: to win. How he got there, well, that was up to Baker. Continue reading →

NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductee – Cotton Owens

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Cotton-Owens-2013-NHoF-InducteeCotton Owens Was Gentleman Competitor In NASCAR’s Early Era

Through stock car racing’s rough and tumble, formative years Everett “Cotton” Owens stood out for a multitude of reasons: among them, winning driver and owner and master mechanic.

But perhaps most of all, he was a gentleman. Continue reading →