Thursday, September 9th 'What If' Question

It all comes down to one race and two drivers. While others are still mathematically eligible  to make this year's Chase for the Sprint Cup Series Championship, all eyes are on Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon going to Richmond.

Busch holds the second Wild Card spot, with his one win from May at the same track. Gordon sits 14th, fighting a year of bad luck and many mechanical failures. He too, has a lone win from Pocono. And the scenario is simple: whoever finishes ahead of the other will make the Chase.

Yet, while both Busch and Gordon have had their fair share of success at the Virginia track, Busch enters the weekend as the favorite. He's the most recent winner at the track and it's Gordon who has to beat him. A tall task simply because of the fact that anything and everything that could happen to a driver and team this season, has to Gordon.

They must continue to fight from behind if they want a shot at the Chase. A situation neither company, Joe Gibbs Racing with Busch and Hendrick Motorsports with Gordon, imagined themselves in before the season started. Except here they are, Busch not wanting to miss the Chase again as he did in 2009 and Gordon hoping to have something go right in his season. Saying it's never over until it's over, and he too, doesn't want to experience being on the outside looking in as he did in 2005.

Each driver knows what they have to do, Busch feeling confident in his team and the track. Gordon looking to avenge a heartbreaking loss to Hamlin at Atlanta, saying he won't make the same mistake twice.

But ...

What if Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon are running together on the last lap Saturday, who makes it back to the checkered flag and into the Chase?

@ARosser14 Whoever's third

@HarpAmyStabler Kyle makes it to the Chase and the checkered flag

Wednesday, December 22nd 'What If' Question

Everyone has a moment in their life that they would love to get back or moments we would love to have been able to enjoy more.

In NASCAR there have been so many great races in its 62 year history that fans are left wondering what it would have been like to able to see those races. They may live on in history through highlight reels or even old video tapes, but some moments are just those you need to be there for.

Seeing your favorite driver win his first race. Or just seeing them win any race. Seeing a champion crowned in Homestead-Miami or attending the Daytona 500, the biggest race of the year.

Or there are times when a race fan had the chance to attend an event but decided not to. When that race is one of the most memorable in NASCAR history as well as one of the most emotional, that guilt will live with them forever. That's what happened to my father and his friend.

Back in 2001 after the death of Dale Earnhardt they talked for months and months about how they should go to the Pepsi 400 that July, the return trip to the Daytona International Speedway. They never went and watched from home as Dale Earnhardt Jr. pulled off an emotional victory at the track that took his father's life.

While they regret not attending, it turned out well for me. Watching the race on TV left me to watch as well, it was my first ever NASCAR race and I was hooked from just that one. The rest I guess you could say is history.




For some fans their chance to attend a race they always wanted to is just that, history. They won't get that back and will have to wait until they purchase their next set of tickets and hope that event will be another memorable moment in NASCAR's biography.

But ...

What if you could go back in time and attend a race of your choosing. Which race would you choose and why?

@Talon64 #NASCAR, the 2003 Busch/Craven Darlington race. Racing in general, any Monaco #F1 race.

@hillbillyDem 1992 Atlanta Journal 500, Kulwickis championship, the Kings last race, Jeff Gordons first race, 6 guys going for championship

@Jrocket10 2001 Daytona 500 and change the last lap result!!! RIP Dale Sr.!!!!

@ARosser14 2006 Bass Pro Shops 500. I was going to be there until the Thursday before the race, and Tony dominated and won.

@Crutten I would go back to see Dale Sr win the 1998 Daytona 500. Dale Sr was the reason I started watching nascar in the early 90s, and to see him capture that historic win would've topped any race I've ever attended.

@Shaggy_5150 '98 Daytona 500...Grrew up an Earnhardt fan...no further explanation needed :)

@amarquis32 NASCAR -- 2003 Kroger 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park, an instant classic! Any race -- 2006 ARCA outlaw late model Glass City 200 at Toledo Speedway.

@ronsracing88 98 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt win.

@robwright11 l I would want to be in the grandstands in Darlington when Ricky Craven and Kurt Busch had their photo finish. Just the way the last few laps played out, and how Ricky Craven was my favorite driver.