For a sport that, for years, was accused of being stuck in a rut, let’s just take a minute and appreciate the new advances that we’ve seen unveiled in the last few weeks.  Advances that could impact NASCAR for years to come.

Forty years in and the All-Star race is still looking for its identity.   Currently, and maybe, mostly valuably for the sport, are the years it’s used as a live, nearly, full field test session for new ideas.

I think it may be easy to overlook just how much Brad Keselowski has accomplished since he bought into Roush Fenway Racing.

We’ve spent a lot of time focusing on Ford’s lack of a win, and with good reason, we’re one-third of the way into the year and they have a goose egg in the column that matters most.

I don’t quite understand all the uproar about the fuel saving we saw at Talladega.  Was it really that big a deal; or that distracting?

Treacherous and sketchy.  Besides being a great name for a band, they were also the two words we heard most to describe Texas Motor Speedway.

NASCAR history is filled with the kind of well-timed feel-good stories like we saw at Martinsville.  I’m not suggesting anything nefarious; just coincidence.

Hard as we may all try, there are still human elements involved in policing sporting events.  And, where there are human elements, the chance for human mistakes is there.  Frankly, until the games are played perfectly by robots, I’m fine with that.

Finding balance is tough.  The last couple of years, NASCAR has tried multiple new ways to enhance the road-racing product.  Whether they’re getting closer to success or not, is open to debate.

This week’s trip to Circuit of the Americas is a shining example of what NASCAR has been aiming to do the last half-dozen years or so.