NASCAR field ready for battle at the Brickyard (USA Today)

Posted 8/3/2006 4:41 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | By Seth Livingstone, USA TODAY Mark Martin likes to cut to the chase. So when it comes to assessing the importance of NASCAR's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard this Sunday, the veteran driver slashes through the indicators with aerodynamic eloquence. "I always say the size of the trophy and the size of the check pretty much indicate whether or not the race is a big deal," Martin says, "and they're pretty big here for this one." When he was a budding ...