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FYI WIRZ: NASCAR’s point aces bring heart to the heartland in Kansas

by Dwight Drum at Racetake.com

For fans that have never had a ride or driven a stock car at 170 mph or so, the experience is way faster than it looks on a racetrack or on TV. Add 42 other cars to any track and the racing is pure chaos on the edge, especially when contact doesn’t cause wrecking.

Getting to NASCAR’s top series in Sprint Cup takes talent and lot of training, but to do it at all—takes heart.

All 43 drivers who qualify bring heart to competition, but certainly no stronger than one brave extreme sports legend, Travis Pastrana, who will debut this year in NASCAR’s Nationwide series.

Pastrana is quick to describe just how difficult it is to race a stock car.

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FYI WIRZ: NASCAR’s top guns won’t have rust as they blast into Texas

by Dwight Drum at Racetake.com

NASCAR drivers only get three weekends off during the long 36-race season, complete with an additional Shootout and All-Star race. But 13 off days won’t cause moss to grow or rust to build in any racing sense.

Drivers may be rested by April 14, but they will also soon be tested by speed on one of NASCAR’s fastest intermediate racks, Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Samsung Mobile 500 on the 1.5-mile quad-oval with 24 degree banking will get the green flag on a Saturday night.

Fans without tickets or cowboy hats can view the return of stock car excitement at 7:00 P.m. ET on FOX.

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FYI WIRZ: NASCAR’s leaders think race 6 at Martinsville is like returning home

Almost all NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers raced a short-track somewhere when they were young and dreamed of the big time. For them going to a short-track race on the NSCS circuit is like connecting history to the present.

Martinsville Speedway is one of two half-mile NASCAR tracks, a 0.526-mile oval with 12 degree banking in Ridgeway, Virginia. The track built in 1947 has been a part of NASCAR history since its inception in 1949. Fans without tickets to the Goody’s Fast relief 500 on Sunday, Apr.1 can check www.martinsvillespeedway.com and those at home can view the race at 12:30 p.m. ET on FOX

The long NASCAR season is underway. Some of the productive teams that have risen to the top in points in five races are likely to be a part of the Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff.

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by Dwight Drum at Racetake.com

Bristol Motor Speedway is one of the shortest tracks on the NASCAR circuit, but it’s also one of the most demanding events, physically and mentally. It might even be the most exhausting race—despite its length.

The coliseum atmosphere is special at Bristol for fans and drivers, as all are close to action.

The inevitable rubbing of sheet metal caused some destructive crashes Sunday that collected the cars of Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch. All dropped in the points as a result of damage.

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The Daytona 500, ‘The Great American Race’ at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida didn’t disappoint those with patience or a hefty tolerance for crashing and bizarre incidents. The race was scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. but owing to rain and crashes, it was delayed to an exciting finish at about 1 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson was prophetic the day before the scheduled start of the race when he said, “Everybody always told me to be patient and it drove me crazy hearing that, but they were right.”

The 500-mile, 202-lap race doesn’t need a 36-hour time frame to complete. But the 2012 race, the first to be postponed in 54 years, needed all of that. Most of that time was devoted to dodging rain drops, but a few hours were consumed by crashes.

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