To say that Bon Aqua, Tennessee’s Willie Allen has come a long way in the last two years has been an understatement. From all the high-points to the low-points, the one constant for Allen is his strong resolve to keep going. The man had to resort to start-and-parking after he was released by ThorSport Racing [...]

In her first trip to the half-mile leviathan known as Bristol Motor Speedway, Danica Patrick felt the unyielding wrath of the Bristol beast. On Friday, when she got here, the usual media circus surrounding her was unrelenting and the fans that had access to pit road kept hounding her endlessly for autographs. She was getting [...]

 The path Jeremy Clements has taken to the NASCAR series has been a long, hard road with many twists and turns, but through it all, Clements and his small family-operated team have managed to survive and even thrive in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, going up against teams with far greater resources than they have available [...]

            Last year at this time, Carl Edwards was sitting in 13th place in points and the lone highlight (or lowlight, depending on one’s point of view) was Carl crossing swords with Brad Keselowski at Atlanta, sending him into the fence and at Bristol, he finished 6th. Fast forward to a year later, and Carl [...]

When one brings up the name Paul Menard, until roughly this time last year, people just assumed that he was only in the sport because his father is Midwestern home-improvement tycoon, John Menard, but nothing could be further from the truth. In the past two years, Menard has gone from an average, at best, driver [...]

At every other track on the NASCAR circuit, driver introductions are, generally, a rather boring and bland affair. Usually, the introductions are just an announcer saying where a driver is starting and his name. Occasionally, a driver will bring their family on stage, but that’s about the only variety to your typical driver introduction ceremony. [...]

When you think of NASCAR owners, you generally assume all the teams have roots entrenched in the Carolinas. One team owner in NASCAR has East Tennessee roots and recently, OnPitRoad.com had a chance to sit down with Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins and talk about his unlikely rise from East Tennessee businessman to a [...]

While he’s not necessarily a house-hold name, Jimmy Means has managed over the past 35 years to persevere with limited finances and second-hand equipment. He’s managed to keep himself firmly entrenched in the sport, even as teams with more money and better equipment infiltrate the Nationwide Series. Still, with the odds against him, Means has [...]

There is no mistaking the fact that the sport of auto-racing has been a male-dominated sport for years. But lately, there has been a bit of a surge in the number of females attempting to break into the sport. Enter Ali Kern, who, at 17 years of age, is trying to make an impact on [...]

When you think of big-name Las Vegas prize-fights, you usually imagine such encouters at the Bellagio, the MGM Grand, or the Thomas & Mack Center… not the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. But Friday in the garage area at the track, the animosity between Robby Gordon and 2010 Raybestos Rookie Of The Year Kevin Conway allegedly [...]