NASCAR Cup Series

David Ragan thinks that recent changes at Pocono Raceway - shortening the race from 500 to 400 miles and repaving the 2.5-mile oval - have made the racing better. And he thinks the new Gen-6 Sprint Cup Series cars will improve the racing even more in 2013.

Mark Martin doesn’t have a racing bucket list, but if he did Pocono Raceway might be at the top of the list. Pocono, Homestead, Indianapolis, Daytona and Kentucky are the only active tracks on the Sprint Cup circuit where Martin has not won.

You settle down to watch a movie, to follow the storyline, even expecting what the outcome might be. Matt Kenseth was to win at Dover, Jimmie Johnson was going to challenge him for the victory, Tony Stewart would have another dud day, and the boy sees dead people.

From what I saw, NASCAR made the right call at Dover black flagging Jimmie Johnson but if you step back and take a look at how restarts are policed; you would agree that NASCAR needs to overhaul the entire process.

"In so many ways he was the perfect first champion," Bill France Jr. said of Byron in 1998 when he was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers. "A guy who loved racing so much he refused to give it up. And he loved his country so much he gave it all he had."

When it comes to fast single car operations, everyone thinks of Kurt Busch and Furniture Row Racing but there is another single car team out there that is just a couple steps behind the No.78 performance wise.

The first half of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has been a great learning experience for Timmy Hill as he gets acclimated to the series and the FAS Lane Racing team.

David Reutimann and the No. 83 Burger King / Dr. Pepper Toyota team finished 26th on Sunday afternoon at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. Reutimann was able to tame the beast known as "The Monster Mile" to bring home another solid finish.

Travis Kvapil and the No. 93 Burger King / Dr. Pepper Toyota Camry team finished 39th at Dover (Del.) International Speedway ("The Monster Mile") on Sunday afternoon. After getting caught speeding on pit road during their first pit stop of the day, the team battled back and had their car handling well when engine failure ended their day just before the halfway point.

Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart claimed his first victory of the 2013 season at the ‘Monster Mile’ in the FedEx 400 in his No. 14 Code 3 Associates Mobil 1 Chevrolet SS. The win marked his third at Dover International Speedway and snapped a 30-race winless streak.