I’m girding myself for the litany of complaints from drivers at the sixth annual Wild West Shootout, the six-race miniseries that begins Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.

“Passing points aren’t fair.”

“I never draw a good starting spot.”

“Why can’t we just use time trials?”

In the interest of maintaining a positive attitude toward the 2012 racing season (at least until March), I’ll just smile and nod my head while listening to beefs about USA Raceway’s method of lining up cars and MORE

You won't see TV cameras stalking me on Cheaters, but I have been doing some two-timing this weekend at Knoxville Raceway.

The good news? I'm not carrying on an extramarital affair. The bad news, at least for all the tight-cornered quarter-mile ovals around the country that I've long loved, is that I've fallen for a half-mile oval.

Gasp. Just to type that out loud still makes my fingers quiver a little but, I have to admit it. The wide, lakebed-clay track that's the most famous sprint car venue in MORE

ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 10) — Only at Eldora Speedway, where the dreaded six-car inversion is always a dooming possibility, are drivers actually thrilled with a three-car inversion.

So it was Friday night at Eldora Speedway as fast qualifier Scott Bloomquist gave a thumbs-up to his inside second-row starting spot in the first heat for Saturday's 41st annual World 100.

The fastest qualifiers often struggle with the worst-case scenario inversion, so we'll see how they fare from the third starting MORE