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  5 Sports Stars who crossed over into NASCAR By Brian Cotnoir So this past week we had one of the biggest new team announcement’s in decades when Bubba Wallace that he will be joining a new team started by fellow NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin and NBA Legend Michael Jordan!    Now Hamlin has had a long professional relationship with Jordan for years, but the fact that the two of them are starting a racing team together is just so bizarre and so very interesting!    Michael Jordan isn’t the first star from another sport to enter NASCAR.   Former NBA All-Star and current NBA analyst Brad Daugherty is a part-owner of both the #37 & #47 cars in the NASCAR Cup Series, and probably most famously there is NFL Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs who in addition to winning the Super Bowl has one multiple drivers/owners championships and some of the biggest races in the world as a team owner in NASCAR.    That got me thinking what are some of the other interesting...

  5 of the Most Dominant Performances in Auto Racing History By Brian Cotnoir To some people Auto Racing isn’t much of an exciting sport .   To most it’s just driver (or rider) presses the accelerator and they go fast, but it’s much more than that.   A successful racing team not only needs a great driver, but a great crew, engineers, strategy, sponsors, and even a little bit of luck.   All these factors combined can lead to unprecedented dominance in the sport.   Just look at the recent success of the Mercedes team in Formula 1 or rider Marc Marquez’s dominance in MotoGP, or Steve Kinser in the World of Outlaws, and even NASCAR drivers like Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, and Brad Keselowski have been dominating in NASCAR.   It takes a lot to dominate in any form of Auto Racing, but for a brief while these teams and drivers were absolutely dominantand—darn near—unbeatable! 1.) Frank Kimmel, 8 Straight ARCA Championships The ARCA Racing Seri...