Mother Nature nearly drowned NASCAR at Martinsville, but the sun came out Sunday and Monday, and we saw some great racing. Now, we’ve given Monday and Tuesday a Jimmie Johnson/Kevin Harvick-style bump and run pass, and we make it to Wednesday and more reader questions. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #17
March 31st, 2009 
T.C. 
Posted in Ask the Insiders 
Tags: cooking at the track, Dale Earnhardt, food, Food at the track, Kyle Busch, OSHA, pit crew, track bar, wedge 
3 Comments »Short Tracks Rough up Roush
March 30th, 2009 T.C. I went blog topic fishing today on Twitter to see what I could come up with, and Becca hit me up with this one (thanks!). We just had two straight short tracks, Bristol and Martinsville, and the five teams of Roush Fenway Racing came out the other side looking like they just went twelve rounds with Ali. [...]
Digger Fans? And Where Are The Hospitality Tents?
March 30th, 2009 Journo As the rain fell down this weekend at Martinsville I had a chance to get out and walk through the midway area. I am a big fan of people watching and where is there a better place to do that? As I rounded the corner on the last row of trailers I couldn’t help but notice the people, [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: bristol, digger, Fox, hospitality tents, Martinsville 10 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: March 22-28
March 29th, 2009 Journo A wet weekend at Martinsville capped off a week dominated by talk out of Hendrick Motorsports. The saga of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Eury Jr. continued into this week as team owner Rick Hendrick and other team executives met to discuss what they needed to do to get them back on track. They said they [...]
EGR Reaching Out To Social Media
March 26th, 2009 Journo Last week we got an e-mail from Earnhardt Ganassi Racing’s media relations department asking us if we wanted to join their mailing list. TC sent a response thanking them for asking before they added us but said we would likely not use anything they sent. They of course added us anyway. Fast forward a couple of days, [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, EGR, Facebook, media relations, NASCAR, social media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Youtube 5 Comments »I Gotta Question About Firesuits
March 25th, 2009 T.C. Reader questions are normally answered in the Ask The Insiders Wednesday posts, but I got this question from reader BJ and decided I would need more then a paragraph or two to answer it. First, here is the question(s): This season I’ve noticed a new patch on the drivers’ firesuits. Located on the underside of [...]
Posted in Over The Wall Tags: Alpinestars, crew suit, driver suit, firesuit, impact, pit crew, SFI, SFI Foundation, SFI rating, Simpson, Simpson Race Products 5 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #16
March 24th, 2009 T.C. After they went roundy-roundy on the high banks of Bristol, NASCAR is taking the show to the Martinsville paperclip. The Nationwide teams will sit this one out while the Truck Series takes center stage on Saturday. But it’s not Saturday, it’s Wednesday, and that means another round of reader questions. If you don’t know what this post [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: California, computers, Daytona, ESPN, Fox, Infineon, ISC, Kentucky, Kyle Busch, pit crew challenge, SMI, tv broadcast, Watkins Glen 6 Comments »Dale Jr. And The Top-35: Notes From Bristol
March 24th, 2009 Journo So I know I am probably a day late and dollar short on this one, but I figured I would throw my two cents into the Dale Earnhardt Jr./Tony Eury Jr. discussion. We are often asked about our thoughts on this driver crew chief pairing. Does it work? Why do they have so much trouble? [...]
Sometimes A Win Doesn’t Mean Winning The Race
March 22nd, 2009 T.C. Everyone wants to win. It’s the reason why any of us compete. We want to win and we want to be the best. But sometimes, a win doesn’t necessarily mean you ended up celebrating with a trophy and champagne when the race is over. When a race weekend kicks off, 43 plus teams show up [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: March 15-21
March 21st, 2009 Journo NASCAR’s Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series’ made their way to Thunder Valley this week after a rare break in the schedule. Bloomberg News reported this week, Speedway Motorsports Inc.’s President and Chief Operating Officer Marcus Smith may not have received degree from the University of North Carolina. Smith, son of SMI chairman Bruton Smith, said [...]
