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Win up to $1,000,000 with DIRECTV’s NASCAR Head 2 Head Knock Out!

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by Charlie Turner

Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. The best NASCAR and IndyCar news and opinion, exclusive pictures and video. I'm Charlie Turner. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

July 25, 2011 5:06 pm UTC No Comments

Includes printable NASCAR Head2Head Knockout Game bracket pdf

That’s right, NASCAR and the DIRECTV folks are rolling out a new and unique NASCAR fantasy game. 32 of the top drivers will be selected and seeded in a tournament style head to head single elimination bracket (think March Madness) Fans will then be able to choose the winners of each match-up for a chance to win up to a million bucks or a new truck.

The winning driver in each head to head match-up will advance to race another day. The game kicks off with the Pocono race August 7th and runs for three weeks until the “Fastest Four” are left. Those four drivers will race for the Championship at Bristol Motor Speedway August 27th.

The fan with the most accurate picks will win a truck from the manufacturer of the car driven by the winning driver. If Chevy driver Tony Stewart wins it all, the fan with the best record will win a Chevy truck. A fan with a perfect bracket has a chance at $1,000,000.

The drivers will be competing on behalf of their favorite charities, with a total of $400,000 to be awarded to support great causes. The contest starts August 7, so make sure to get your entries in soon. Click here to get set up.

This is a cool deal, with serious prizes. It’s a simple game to play, but you don’t have to rely on luck to win. Take a look at a couple of the first round match ups.

I’m not sure how they went about seeding this thing. Looks like maybe they went by championship points with the driver with the highest point total matched to the guy with the lowest. This might make for easy pickings in the first round. Maybe.

Carl Edwards is matched with Casey Mears, and you would need a big pair of rocks to take Mears. But the Matt Kenseth vs Jamie McMurray match up is a different story.

Kenseth is 6th in Sprint Cup points and has a couple wins, while McMurray has had a dismal season compared to 2010. But comparing their respective stats for Pocono Raceway makes the choice tougher. Kenseth still has the edge, but not a huge one. And if you look at stats for Indianapolis Motor Speedway as well – a track that is very similar in character to Pocono – you see the same thing. This race could go either way.

We will have a special section in the On Pit Row newsletter during the Head 2 Head Knockout game. I’ll give you my picks and tell you my thinking. Who knows; if it helps you win a million bucks, maybe you’ll start returning my calls. Click here to download a printable Head 2 Head Knockout Game bracket.

Anyway, the DIRECTV NASCAR Head 2 Head Knock Out game sounds like fun. Tell us what you think, and share your strategy with us in the comment section.

This post is sponsored by DIRECTV.

Filed under: Bristol Motor Speedway, Carl Edwards, Casey Mears, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Jamie McMurray, Matt Kenseth, NASCAR, NASCAR & the Media, NASCAR 64 Greatest Driver Tourney, Pocono Raceway 

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NASCAR Driver Pictures: Best of Kurt Busch 2010

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by BethAnne, Special To NASCAR commentary and driver pictures, 2012 NASCAR schedule, video, Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie

I am the field producer/photographer of the syndicated radio show/website ON PIT ROW. When Steve and Charlie ask me to 'jump', I say "Yeah right."

March 13, 2011 3:49 pm UTC No Comments

It seems Busch the elder, oft times is overshadowed by his younger sib’s antics. But he, like his bro, has always been very accomodating when it comes to pics. Here are some that Glenn and myself took in 2010.

Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler and Glenn Bure OnPitRow.com

Filed under: Chicagoland Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Ragan, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Kurt Busch, Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR, NASCAR photos, New Hampshire International Speedway, NewHampshire Motor Speedway, The Busch Bros 

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NASCAR Driver Pictures from Media Day at the Brickyard

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by BethAnne, Special To NASCAR commentary and driver pictures, 2012 NASCAR schedule, video, Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie

I am the field producer/photographer of the syndicated radio show/website ON PIT ROW. When Steve and Charlie ask me to 'jump', I say "Yeah right."

July 25, 2010 11:47 am UTC No Comments

Exclusive Photos of NASCAR Drivers from Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Indy has one of the best setups for NASCAR driver interviews. The access is great and the drivers seem more relaxed in the setting that Indy has. At least they do to me.

Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler – OnPitRow.com

Filed under: Carl Edwards, Clint Boyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, jimmie johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, NASCAR, NASCAR & the Media, NASCAR photos, Tony Stewart 

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NASCAR Pictures from Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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by BethAnne, Special To NASCAR commentary and driver pictures, 2012 NASCAR schedule, video, Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie

I am the field producer/photographer of the syndicated radio show/website ON PIT ROW. When Steve and Charlie ask me to 'jump', I say "Yeah right."

July 24, 2010 9:50 pm UTC No Comments

NASCAR Racing Photos from the Brickyard

Pictures of Friday Sprint Cup practice at Indy. Juan Pablo Montoya, Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski and more.

Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler – OnPitRow.com

Filed under: Brad Kesolowski, Carl Edwards, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Juan Pablo Montoya, NASCAR, NASCAR photos, On Pit Row on the road, Sprint Cup Series 

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400 Miles of NASCAR at the Brick House

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by Charlie Turner

Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. The best NASCAR and IndyCar news and opinion, exclusive pictures and video. I'm Charlie Turner. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

July 22, 2010 10:38 pm UTC No Comments

“She’s a brick—-house
Mighty mighty, just lettin’ it all hang out
She’s a brick—-house
The lady’s stacked and that’s a fact,
ain’t holding nothing back.”

“Brick House” the Commodores

The Brickyard. Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The yard of bricks.

Indy is a temple to racers like A J Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Roger Penske and Tony Stewart.

The Brickyard 400 should be the biggest race in NASCAR, next to the Daytona 500. It was when it all started in 1994. Do you remember the anticipation back then? Maybe it still is that big. But I’m not feelin’ it.

It feels like just another race to me. Maybe that’s the malaise of NASCAR 2010 bleeding through. I don’t know.

It would be a better weekend if:

  • Jimmie Johnson didn’t win and Dale Junior did
  • There are a slew of real cautions, not caused by tires
  • Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski said “to hell with probation” and banged on each other for 399 miles on their way to a photo finish
  • The spoiler made “3-wide” at Indy a regular occurence.

Here’s to a compelling, exciting, story filled race. We’ll have pictures.

Filed under: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, NASCAR, NASCAR History, Tony Stewart 

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Fantasy Pick’Em: 2010 Brickyard 400

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by Chris Leone, Special To NASCAR commentary and driver pictures, 2012 NASCAR schedule, video, Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie

I do weekly Fantasy Pick'Em columns here at OPR, as well as the occasional opinion and analysis piece. I also provide the IZOD IndyCar Series coverage. For more on that, head to my site, OpenWheelAmerica.com. My Twitter handle is @christopherlion.

July 21, 2010 5:30 pm UTC No Comments

The Brickyard 400 is one of the crown jewels of the Sprint Cup Series, an event secondary in prestige only to longer-established events like the Daytona 500. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the original United States “speedway,” plays host to the event.

The cathedral of speed’s second major event every year, after the prestigious Indianapolis 500, has had its ups and downs. In 2008, bad wear patterns on Goodyear tires limited the race to a series of 10-lap sprints. And last year, Juan Montoya dominated the race, only to have a pit road speeding penalty wreck his day and hand the race to Jimmie Johnson. But regardless of any trials and tribulations with the race surface (and every major track has them now and again), the event is still one of the most important ones on the schedule, and teams will put as much effort (if not more) into winning this race as they would into almost any other event on the schedule.

So who looks good at the Brickyard? Here’s a hint – most of them grew up with Indy dreams.

Tony Stewart, my pick for the weekend, is at the forefront of this crowd. The 1997 champion of the IZOD IndyCar Series may never have won an Indianapolis 500, but twice he’s claimed the checkers at the stock car event, in 2005 and 2007. His average finish of 8.5 is best of any active driver, and he’s led laps in six of the 11 stock car races he’s run at the Brickyard.

As for a dark horse, look to A.J. Allmendinger, who will make his 100th career Sprint Cup start at Indy. The former Champ Car star had a 10th place finish in his first Brickyard 400 two years ago. The ‘Dinger and his team will look to carry on their momentum from the past eight races, where they have accumulated seven top-15 finishes.

Three more:

Jeff Gordon is the only driver to do in a stock car what A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, and Rick Mears did in open-wheel cars – win four times at Indianapolis. Gordon’s last win may have come all the way back in 2004, but that hasn’t stopped him from finishing well. In 16 career Brickyard starts, he’s finished in the top 10 an astounding 13 times. His average finish of 8.6 is second to only Stewart.

Jimmie Johnson has three Brickyard wins, each coming over the past four years, but he’s also got three DNFs at the track, a result of some pretty sour luck in the past. He blew an engine halfway through the 2004 event, and crashed in 2005 and 2007. It’s this sort of historical bad luck that can come back to bite at any time, and has also brought his average finish down to a mediocre 17.9.

Finally, while he might qualify as a dark horse at any other track, Juan Montoya is no stranger to Indianapolis. In 2000, as a CART ringer coming to show up the Indy Racing League in that year’s Indy 500, Montoya was warned to respect the track. Montoya scoffed, contended that all four corners were the same (unlike the tracks on which he honed his skills), and dominated the race. In his first stock car event at the track, in 2007, he finished a strong second; last year he should have won. If anybody has both the talent and the stones to pull off a surprise victory this weekend, it’s Montoya.

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