Posts from ‘April, 2008’

I know its old news to many of you, but for those who don’t know, NASCAR changed a few key rules on pit road for this season.  The first has to do with pushing the car down pit road and the second involves controlling the old tires back to the pit wall.
During the first few [...]

Ganassi is at it again. In a move that mirrors their Busch Series changeup last year, they’re swapping crew chiefs on the cup side. Donny Wingo and Jimmy Elledge will swap drivers as they try to pump life back into struggling teams.
Last year Ganassi made a similar swap moving Brian Pattie to the #42 and Brad Parrott [...]

When you take a group of competitive guys, throw them into racecars, add a little bit of ego, and let them loose on one of many thousands of racetracks across the planet, confrontations are going to happen.  It is an inevitability of racing.  It doesn’t matter whether the race is at a local dirt track, [...]

Nothing irritates me more when I meet someone within the sport than when they don’t know anything about the history. Generally these are the people who fell ass-end into it (believe it or not it does happen). It boggles my mind how you can come into something like this and not know anything about where the sport [...]

When it comes to NASCAR rumors I think most fans turn to Jayski and a lot of other NASCAR websites and blogs.  But I’ve got to tell you, the worst place for rumors running rampant, is inside the race shop.
Not to put the world famous Jayski or any other sites down, because Jayski is probably [...]

So this is the first in a series of what I hope will be many looks into the NASCAR lifestyle. My experiences are a little less than typical because I spent my early life as a fan looking in, as opposed to having been born into it. For this first edition I want to talk [...]

It’s really starting to seem like every track we go to this year, we have to deal with rain.  And I know you are saying “well not every track,” but it sure feels like it.  I also know its pretty much pointless to discuss rain delays, because there isn’t a thing we can do about [...]

Every so often NASCAR has a watershed moment that forever changes the operation of the sport. Joe Weatherly’s death in 1964 led to nets in the driver side window, Fireball Roberts death in 1964 led the fuel cell and of course the death of Dale Earnhardt led to all around safety changes. This week the admission from former [...]

One thing you learn early on in this business is that when people vehemently deny rumors, chances are they’re true. Such was the case earlier this week when it was reported on a Yahoo Sports blog that long time Ganassi sponsor Target would be leaving them at the end of the season (Interestingly enough that [...]

After Texas this week, a friend asked me about a conversation the Fox broadcast team had during the race.  At some point, one of the competitors had to return to pit road because of loose lugnuts.  They were discussing who was to blame during those pit stops where the car leaves with less then twenty [...]