SM Staff

With a three hour plus rain delay pushing the Aaron’s 499 from day into a Talladega Night, here is what was surprising and not surprising from the Alabama 2.66 mile oval.

Bobby Labonte made his 700th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Talladega Superspeedway this past Sunday leading laps under green before being swept up in a late race wreck finishing 20th.

Following his win at Kansas Speedway, NASCAR deemed Matt Kenseth’s motor to be illegal. A connecting rod was found to be approximately 2.7 grams underweight when NASCAR weighed it during the tear down of the race winning No.20 car from Kansas.

It’ll be 10 years late next week since the thrilling finish between Kurt Busch and Ricky Craven at Darlington, but it still brings a...

As a new generation of drivers enters the Sprint Cup Series, the veterans are finding it tougher and tougher to remain competitive. Other than a few breakout weekends, Jeff Burton hasn’t been much of a threat over the past few seasons.

Just two days after a tirade on Twitter following the final restart at Talladega, NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Brad Keselowski has published an open letter to the fans and fellow driver, David Ragan, on his website that, on the surface, looks as though it might be an apology for his harsh words.

Roger Penske and Penske Racing made their appeal heard to Chief Appellate Officer John Middlebrook and in return, Middlebrook reduced the suspensions while keeping the fines and point penalties the same.

Front Row Motorsports (FRM) has competed in 511 NASCAR sanctioned events over the last eight years and on Sunday night with the sun setting in the background; they did what many found inconceivable winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race in an FRM 1-2 finish! It's an amazing example of David versus Goliath (In this case, two David's) and NASCAR hasn't seen an upset like this in quite some time. We all know what happened late Sunday night at Talladega Superspeedway but do you know the rest of the story? Do you know about all the adversity and the failures this team faced and had to persevere through to get to this moment of triumph? Well, you're about to.

Talladega didn’t disappoint though it looked like it would be the same old thing early. Matt Kenseth took off and led 142 of the extended 192 laps and there was Jimmie Johnson closely behind, but as things usually go in restrictor plate racing, the unexpected happened.

We have seen it before; NASCAR Champion Brad Keselowski using Twitter to tell fans when he feels something is wrong in the world of stock car racing. This time though, Keselowski has gone too far according to some fans and NASCAR.