About Face: Who Symbolizes NASCAR?

Guest Column By Cathy Elliott When a model or actress signs a contract with a cosmetic or clothing company, she becomes what is known as “the face” of the product. If the marketing department is doing its job correctly, anytime consumers see that person’s image — in a movie or on a billboard, for example [...]

Realignment 2011, Race To The Chase Are Puzzlers

Guest Column by Cathy Elliott The past few days in NASCAR have started to resemble a Sudoku puzzle. You know the pieces are going to fall into place eventually. You’re just not exactly sure how. Sudoku is a number puzzle, usually a block of nine individual squares combining to make one big square, where you [...]

Crew Chief Balances Changing Drivers, Challenging Accents

Guest Column By Cathy Elliott If stock car racing had its own version of the old Ed Sullivan variety show, NASCAR Nationwide Series crew chief Trent Owens would be the plate spinner. Remember the plate spinner? He was the guy who set numerous plates, bowls and other flat objects simultaneously twirling on poles without falling [...]

The Ultimate NASCAR Clutch Play

Guest Column by Cathy Elliott There are many things I like and admire about Dale Earnhardt Jr., but one particular item that keeps popping up is the fact that just when you’re a little bit tempted to give up on the guy, he saves it. Junior definitely knows how to come through in the clutch. [...]

Let Freedom Roar

Guest Column By Cathy Elliott It seems a dichotomy of sorts that one of the professional sporting events most closely associated with the Fourth of July — Independence Day — is the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca Cola NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway. On the day set aside to celebrate [...]

Harvick Has 20/20 Vision For Logano

Guest Column By Cathy Elliott ‘Clichés’ earn that designation for a reason. Yes, they might be tired and hackneyed, but they’re also mostly true, which is why they are pulled out, dusted off and shoved up in people’s faces time and again. The final laps of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono served [...]

Kurt, Kyle Make Vegas The City Of Brotherly Love

Guest Column By Cathy Elliott “Brother acts” are hardly a new phenomenon in NASCAR. There are many notable examples: Bobby and Donnie Allison. Terry and Bobby Labonte. The Waltrips. The Wallaces. The Burtons. The Flocks. But as the sport continues to diversify, attracting drivers from all over the nation and even the world, that time-honored [...]

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