March 2008 - Posts

• Goody's Cool Orange 500 Expert Fantasy Picks

  A List Active Driver : Jeff Gordon - Gordon makes it onto my list for the second time this year. His start to the season has not been great, but the Hendrick cars are due to get another great finish. Jeff Gordon has fully dominated at this track and will continue to do so, in my opinion. B List Active Drivers : Juan Pablo Montoya - Only two starts for him at this track, but both have been top 20 finishes. I can say it is a gamble, but I feel he can go three for three with top 20 finishes at this... Read More... Posted Mar 26 2008, 08:30 AM by richardginn with no comments

• Goody's Cool Orange 500 Racer/Track Trends

  Track: Martinsville Speedway Dimensions: .526-Mile Short Track Past Winners List: Date/Driver/Car Make 04/26/92 - Mark Martin - Ford 09/28/92 - Geoffrey Bodine - Ford 04/25/93 - Rusty Wallace - Pontiac 09/26/93 - Ernie Irvan - Ford 04/24/94 - Rusty Wallace - Ford 09/25/94 - Rusty Wallace - Ford 04/23/95 - Rusty Wallace - Ford 09/24/95 - Dale Earnhardt - Chevrolet 04/21/96 - Rusty Wallace - Ford 09/22/96 - Jeff Gordon - Chevrolet 04/20/97 - Jeff Gordon - Chevrolet 09/28/97 - Jeff Burton - Ford 04... Read More... Posted Mar 26 2008, 08:23 AM by richardginn with no comments Filed under: NASCAR Track Trends

• NASCAR Special: In-Depth Look at Horrible Bristol Picks

  With NASCAR Sprint Cup action off this week, I want to go more in-depth with why I thought I picked that group of drivers for the Bristol race. Additionally, I am going to throw in a section at the end on how unpredictable this season has been so far. First of all, I am going to admit it: my Bristol picks as a whole were horrible. Even if Bristol is not that easy of a race track to predict, most of my Yahoo Fantasy driver picks were junk. I thought going into Food City 500 that Kurt Busch was going... Read More... Posted Mar 20 2008, 08:42 AM by richardginn with no comments

• NASCAR's 10 Hottest Drivers - Week 6

  1) Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Last Week: 2 nd ) - DEJ moves into the first place spot after getting his third top five finish in arrow. He is the hottest Hendrick driver this season and will stay that way with more top five finishes. 2) Kyle Busch (Last Week: 1 st ) - Busch moves down only one spot after his 17 th place finish at Bristol. Still leads the points which is a great thing. No reason to be concerned over his standing in the rankings this week. 3) Kasey Kahne (Last Week: 3 rd ) - Kahne finished... Read More... Posted Mar 19 2008, 09:46 AM by richardginn with 2 comment(s)

• NASCAR's 10 Hottest Drivers - Week 5

  1) Kyle Busch (Last Week: 3 rd ) - This Joe Gibbs is on a tear with his win at Atlanta. He even has a 5.0 average finish so far this season. He is going to stay in the first place spot if he keeps this up. He is so good this season he is in the top five in points in all three major series. 2) Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Last Week: 4 th ) - Two top five finishes in the past two races along with Kasey and Carl not doing so well at Atlanta move him up to the second place spot. He is another hot driver right... Read More... Posted Mar 13 2008, 01:15 PM by richardginn with no comments Filed under: Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch, Kasey Kahne, Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch, Brian Vickers, Elliot Sadler, Ryan Newman, NASCAR Top 10

• NASCAR Food City 500 Expert Picks

  Before I say whom I have picked this week, I would like to say that if Kyle Petty performed as well I thought he would have my fantasy draft would have been okay. Instead, at the end of the day, he made my active driver picks poor and I hope that never happens again this year. My sleeper picks did well though. My A list active driver pick for the Food City 500 Kurt Busch : The long trend data say that he is hot driver at this race track with five wins. In the last six races he has one win and three... Read More... Posted Mar 12 2008, 12:49 PM by richardginn with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch, NASCAR Expert Picks, Reed Sorenson, Ryan Newman, Bobby Labonte

• NASCAR Food City 500 Racer/Track Trends

  Track: Bristol Motor Speedway Dimensions: .533-Mile Short Track Past Winners: Date and Driver 08/28/93 - Mark Martin 04/10/94 - Dale Earnhardt 08/27/94 - Rusty Wallace 04/02/95 - Jeff Gordon 08/26/95 - Terry Labonte 03/31/96 - Jeff Gordon 08/24/96 - Rusty Wallace 04/13/97 - Jeff Gordon 08/23/97 - Dale Jarrett 03/29/98 - Jeff Gordon 08/22/98 - Mark Martin 04/11/99 - Rusty Wallace 08/28/99 - Dale Earnhardt 03/26/00 - Rusty Wallace 08/26/00 - Rusty Wallace 03/25/01 - Elliott Sadler 08/25/01 - Tony Stewart... Read More... Posted Mar 12 2008, 09:42 AM by richardginn with no comments Filed under: NASCAR Track Trends

• NASCAR Power Rankings (1-10) - Week 4

  Here is my first top-ten list of the season of who I think are the hottest Sprint Cup drivers right now. 1) Kasey Kahne - I am putting him in the #1 position because he is the only driver so far this season to have top ten finishes in every single race. If he continues this up he will make the chase for sure. 2) Carl Edwards - With two wins so far this season this Roush Fenway driver is having a hot start to the 2008 season. Very close to making the top spot for me. The six race penalty that his... Read More... Posted Mar 06 2008, 09:36 AM by richardginn with 2 comment(s)

• Yahoo Fantasy Picks for the Kobalt Tools 500

  My A list active driver pick for the Kobalt Tools 500 Clint Boyer - He only has four starts at this track, but the last two have been top ten finishes. His start to the season has not been super hot, but I think his recent success at this track will spill on over to the 2008 season. My B List active driver picks for the Kobalt Tools 500 Martin Truex Jr. - Second time for me on my active driver list. He is a bit of a gamble here. In five starts at this track he has only one top ten finish, but in... Read More... Posted Mar 06 2008, 09:33 AM by richardginn with 1 comment(s)

• NASCAR Kobalt Tools 500: Racer/Track Trends

  Track : Atlanta Motor Speedway 1.54 Mile Quad-Oval Atlanta Motor Speedway Past winners since 11/94 11/13/94 - Mark Martin 03/12/95 - Jeff Gordon 11/12/95 - Dale Earnhardt 03/10/96 - Dale Earnhardt 11/10/96 - Bobby Labonte 03/09/97 - Dale Jarrett 11/16/97 - Bobby Labonte 03/09/98 - Bobby Labonte 11/08/98 - Jeff Gordon 03/14/99 - Jeff Gordon 11/21/99 - Bobby Labonte 03/12/00 - Dale Earnhardt 11/20/00 - Jerry Nadeau 03/11/01 - Kevin Harvick 11/18/01 - Bobby Labonte 03/10/02 - Tony Stewart 10/27/02 ... Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 07:45 AM by richardginn with no comments Filed under: NASCAR Track Trends