The Biggest NASCAR Storylines to Watch Ahead of Sprint Cup Series in California

This weekend, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series heads back to the west coast in a strange scheduling hiccup that everyone talks about, few can explain, and yet continues year after year. That’s a lot of jet fuel and diesel for a series touting itself as environmentally friendly. Maybe that’s why NASCAR plants all those trees outside of racetracks across the country. A quick look to the past shows that the Auto Club 400 is usually a real snooze. However, last year’s edition was—at times—exciting and quite entertaining even though most media recollections focused on the final ten laps.  Former teammates Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin—in a feud that began the previous week in Bristol—battled each oth...

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