Building Speed

People often cite leading laps as one requirement for a good driver.

I’ve said before that an alternative metric is needed because the current one penalizes drivers too severely for one bad race.

Within weeks of NASCAR announcing a re-formulated version of The Chase for 2026, the word around the garage was that the future champion would have to enter The Chase as one of the top six seeds.

People often cite the number of lead changes in a race — the lead change metric — and suggest that a big number means a good race.

Pit road performance always plays a huge role at Darlington Raceway.

NASCAR has a new stage-break rule after fan frustration over large numbers of caution laps.

The 2026 New Hampshire practice prospects come from a single 50-minute practice session where all drivers participated and teams had two sets of tires.

With the threat of rain looming, here are a few things to watch for the 2026 New Hampshire NASCAR race.

If you read my long-ago book The Physics of NASCAR, you know that the team I embedded with was Ray Evernham’s No. 19, driven by Elliott Sadler.

Much talk this week about lack of passing at Indy and whether NASCAR a) should be racing there only with a different car and b) should be racing there at all.

With five races left in the regular season, I’m thinking about The Chase a lot.

The 2026 North Wilkesboro Race Report is a picture of domination by Joey Logano.

The 2026 Atlanta II race report questions whether Atlanta is still, well… Atlanta.

I know that rack-and-pinion steering seems an esoteric and niche topic.