You don’t have to wonder what the future of NASCAR looks like, you can see it right now in the Championship Four. 

There’s been an age-old battle in NASCAR as to how to determine a champion.  Should the champ be the winningest driver or the driver who was the most consistent through the year?

We are now in the busiest time of the sports calendar.  The NFL and college football are in full-swing.  The baseball playoffs are starting, NBA camps are opening and, next week, the NHL regular season starts.

It’s interesting how round numbers become milestones that bring us to reflections.  

Denny Hamlin Is having fun.  Does he sounds arrogant and cocky while doing so?  Sure.  But, there’s nothing wrong with that.

For those who felt like two hour races weren’t long enough…congratulations, your complaints were heard by NASCAR.  The Roval will now take, at least, 2 hours and 20 minutes.  NASCAR has added back the stage break cautions they took away from road courses at the beginning of the year in an effort to reduce the number of caution laps and add strategy back into the road course races.

Why wouldn’t the playoffs start off just as crazy as the regular season has been?

It has been suggested, over the years, that Daytona should host the season finale.  I have always been against that idea.  Too much can happen there that is totally out of the drivers’ control.  I don’t think it would be a fair way to determine the sport’s champion.

When you’re talking about sporting events that compete based on distance rather than time, there are no guarantees as to how long an event will take.

Persistence.  That’s what we saw play out at the Brickyard as Michael McDowell and Front Row Motorsports celebrated another win at one of racing’s hallowed venues.