Bristol Brings It All: Saturday Night Short-Track Elimination Race
The "World's Fastest Half-Mile," as Bristol Motor Speedway is known, is going to quickly cut down the playoff field in NASCAR. It happens on Saturday night (5:30 p.m. CDT, USA Network) when the 16 Cup Series playoff drivers run in the third and final race of the first round. Four will be out, eliminated after 500 laps on the .533-mile…
Larson Opens Playoffs with Big Victory
After one race in the 2023 NASCAR playoffs, some drivers may be against the wall. Not Kyle Larson, who advanced to the Round of 12 with his win at Darlington on Sunday night — although he didn't mind being literally against the wall during the opening round of the 10-race playoffs. "Been really, really fast here my whole career," he…
Drivers Start Their Engines for NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs
Get your brackets. NASCAR has its Sweet 16 on the starting grid for the playoffs. It starts Sunday night at historic Darlington Speedway, where Cup racers have been running since 1950. But the NASCAR postseason is a relatively new circumstance, barely two decades old since the sport parked the season-long points system. Kevin Harvick is back for another run at…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2020 Chronicles Racing
We've said the same thing just about every time we've previewed a new sport's version of the multifaceted Chronicles brand. We're going to say it again now because it's just so apropos: There's a little bit of everything in Panini America's new 2020 Chronicles Racing. The company's compelling catchall concoction brings together seemingly every brand in the arsenal under one…
Panini Peek: 2020 Donruss NASCAR Racing (Preview Gallery)
Panini America officials recently sent out preliminary Product Information Solicitations for several exciting new products coming soon enough to a hobby shop or online retailer near you and, over the course of the next few days, we’re sharing that same information with you here on The Knight’s Lance, continuing with various compelling versions of the upcoming 2020 Donruss NASCAR Racing. In the…
Panini Peek: 2019 Prizm NASCAR Racing (Preview Gallery)
In the interest of time (and playing catch-up), we’re dedicating today here at The Knight’s Lance to previewing, in rapid-fire fashion, the newest products that have been solicited by the Panini America sales team in recent weeks — a fresh batch of product previews that includes 2019 Absolute Football, 2019 Spectra Football, 2019 XR Football, 2018-19 Immaculate Basketball, 2019 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball, 2019-20 Prizm English Premier League Soccer and more.…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2018 Prime NASCAR Racing (40+ Images)
When it comes to the major North American sports, none of them do logos quite like NASCAR. From the firesuits to the flashy and festooned fast cars, there's just so much prime trading card opportunity. And later this week, Panini America officials will release a product engineered largely to take advantage of that fact. Panini America's 2018 Prime NASCAR Racing…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2018 Prime NASCAR Racing (Gallery)
Panini America's Prime Hockey brand made an instant impact with collectors when it first debuted as a memorabilia-based masterpiece during the 2011-12 season. The product raised eyebrows and dropped jaws immediately based almost entirely upon an unparalleled memorabilia roster that helped deliver some of the most unique trading cards ever manufactured. The autograph lineup was pretty spectacular, too. That auspicious beginning…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Four Boxes of 2018 Victory Lane NASCAR Racing
Finally . . . Panini America's 2018 Victory Lane NASCAR Racing has arrived. Following several days of intense speculation and anticipation from hardcore racing collectors across the country, the newest addition to the Panini America racing family is live. As you saw in yesterday's Quality Control Gallery, 2018 Victory Lane NASCAR Racing provides a compelling concoction of microetching, rainbow holofoil fronts,…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2018 Victory Lane NASCAR Racing
Panini America is revving up its NASCAR portfolio tomorrow with the premiere edition of a Victory Lane product that boasts an alluring array of microetching and rainbow holofoil fronts, and autograph and memorabilia checklists that appeal to racing fans of seemingly every generation. 2018 Victory Lane NASCAR Racing arrives in hobby shops across North America this week with hobby boxes…