Starting with last weekend’s race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and continuing with Saturday’s Ohio 250 at Mansfield, the Truck Series schedule is just starting to roll. Since Daytona in February, there have only been six truck races, but they are currently on a streak of seven races in seven weeks. Since its inception in 1995 [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Truck Series Schedule Heats Up
May 23rd, 2008 
T.C. Go or Go Home: The Race before the Race
May 22nd, 2008 T.C. The Thursday before the Coke 600 is always a very important day for a select group of drivers and teams. Tonight is Pole Night for Sunday’s Coke 600 and every driver wants to be in the field for the home race. The entry list shows thirteen drivers that are currently on the outside looking in, [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations 
Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, coke 600, go or go home, J.J. Yeley, Jeff Green, Joe Nemechek, Johnny Sauter, Jon Wood, Ken Schrader, Kyle Petty, Patrick Carpentier, pole night, qualifying, Sam Hornish Jr., Stanton Barrett, Sterling Marlin, Tony Raines 
No Comments »The Cost of Doing Business
May 21st, 2008 Journo The days of one car teams, (successful) owner operators and independents are over; NASCAR is expensive and the ever increasing cost of doing business becomes more evident as time goes on. Even in the last couple of seasons we have seen the biggest growth and implosion of a team in recent history, the introduction and implementation of [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: DEI, Ginn Racing, Iowa Speedway, Mansfield Speedway, NASCAR, Sponsor, Yates Racing No Comments »Travel: Long Days, Small Seats
May 21st, 2008 T.C. Being that NASCAR is a sport that takes place at venues all over the country, we spend a lot of time traveling. Our team flies to most races except for the tracks within about a 3 hour driving radius. We will drive to Bristol, Martinsville, Charlotte, Atlanta, and usually Talladega. Its really nice racing out at Lowes [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: airplane, airport, atlanta, bristol, charlotte, Martinsville, talladega, travel No Comments »Breaking News: Elledge Out, Pattie in
May 20th, 2008 T.C. Jayski broke the story earlier today that Jimmy Elledge had been let go as the crew chief for Juan Pablo Montoya and the #42 team at Ganassi. I’ve heard his replacement atop the pit box will be Brian Pattie. Pattie had served as a Nationwide Series crew chief at Ganassi on the #41 car up [...]
NASCAR Needs to be in Iowa
May 19th, 2008 T.C. There was a blurb today on Jayski from the Des Moines Register where Richard Childress said that Iowa Speedway would be great for a Nationwide Series race, possibly coupled with a Truck Series race. I cannot agree with him more. I’ve been to Iowa Speedway a few times for different races and it is a great facility. [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Des Moines Register, Iowa Speedway, jayski, NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Richard Childress, Truck Series 2 Comments »Race Shop Fan Days
May 18th, 2008 Journo TC highlighted some of these earlier this week in a post about what to do in Charlotte but several area teams are having fan days where you can meet your favorite drivers and get free food and goodies. Here is the information for a few of them and if I come across more of them I [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Chip Ganassi Racing, Fan Day, Fan Fest, Gillett Evernham Motorsports, Penske Racing No Comments »The View from Pit Road
May 18th, 2008 Journo One of the great things about having family within the sport and working within it is being able to watch races in the garage and on pit road. The action is ongoing and being in the heart of competition makes you really feel part of it. As cool as that is, it is perhaps the [...]
All-Star Friday Observations
May 16th, 2008 T.C. I just wanted to take a minute to share a few observations from Friday’s activities at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. I really enjoy the pit stops during All-Star qualifying. Its cool that it gets us crew guys involved in the process and it makes it a lot more interesting, especially with the drivers getting on and off [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: all star race, Lowes Motor Speedway, matt crafton, truck race, yellow walls No Comments »Pit Crew Challenge with an Angry David Poole
May 15th, 2008 Journo The Pit Crew Challenge is always a highlight of All-Star week in Charlotte and this year failed to disappoint. The ever growing, ever evolving event in, I believe, its fifth year in Charlotte, featured NASCAR’s premiere teams competing for a year of bragging rights. This year featured an even more flashy set, a band and an [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: All-Star, Brian Vickers, David Poole, NASCAR, pit crew challenge, Rutledge Wood No Comments »