Top-Ten NASCAR Superspeedway Drivers of All Time

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 – Spencer Nips Irvan at the Line for First Cup Win

Photo - Racing One/Getty Images

Photo – Racing One/Getty Images

 

The first half of the 1994 Winston Cup season the black cars dominated.  Rusty Wallace, Dale Earnhardt and Ernie Irvan together had 11 wins in the season’s first 14 races.

Wallace was on a three-race winning streak heading into the Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway.  The Missouri driver’s luck at the track has been short of disastrous. Continue reading

#2 Best Duel Moment – Welcome Back, Ernie Irvan

1996 Twin 125 finish

Photo – Something About Everything Racin’

The 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Season was Ernie Irvan’s return to full-time racing.

The Robert Yates Racing driver nearly lost his life in a practice crash at Michigan in August 1994. At one point doctors only gave him a ten percent chance to live, but Irvan kept fighting, all the way to accept the True Value Hard Charger Award at the Awards banquet in New York City that December. He made his Cup return at North Wilkesboro in October 1995, finishing a respectable sixth. Continue reading