If you are a regular to TNI, and you spend time in the comment section of posts, one name you have no doubt seen is that of Neon. He comments regularly, and always has smart and informed things to say about what we write. A few weeks back, Neon sent me some comments on Mark [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Mark Martin: Nice Guys Finish Last (Or Second)
April 30th, 2009 
T.C. Ask The Insiders Wednesday #21
April 30th, 2009 T.C. It has certainly been a strange week leading up to edition #21. We saw Brad Keselowski triumph in a Cup race, Mike Skinner win a rain shortened race on a Monday, and we lost a pillar of the sport in David Poole. Night racing at Richmond awaits us this weekend, but until that happens, we’ve got more [...]
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Tags: Crew Chief, erik darnell, lug nuts, midway, Penkse, Ray Evernham, souvenirs, talladega, tires, Todd Parrott, tv 
5 Comments »The End of an Era
April 28th, 2009 Journo The passing of David Poole Tuesday marked the end of an era. I honestly don’t know what this means for the future of the motorsports press. Sure there are a lot of motorsports journalists, but none like David. Whether you loved him or hated him, I guarantee you respected him. I remember a couple of [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Charlotte Observer, David Poole, Jim Utter, McClatchy, ThatsRacin 8 Comments »The Passing of David Poole
April 28th, 2009 Journo I can’t tell you how shocked I was when I heard earlier this afternoon David Poole had died. It is hard to imagine the NASCAR media without him. He will truly be missed. I will write more about Poole this evening, but in the mean time I wanted to give people another forum for discussion. Tweet
The Weekend’s Forgotten Storylines
April 28th, 2009 Journo There were some great stories this weekend. Unfortunately they were hard to hear over Carl Edward’s spectacular last lap wreck and the ensuing chaos. Don’t get me wrong, I talked about it too, but I am not going to beat a dead horse here. Instead I wanted to take a minute to talk about some [...]
RCR Crew Swap, Talladega Thoughts
April 26th, 2009 T.C. It came out last week that following the Cup race at Talladega, Casey Mears and Kevin Harvick’s teams would completely switch places. Everyone from the crew chief to the transporter driver would swap. The only remaining pieces would be the drivers and their spotters. So Todd Berrier and Co. will now be with Mears, and [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: April 19-25
April 26th, 2009 Journo Crew chief swaps (or the rumor of them) led the news this week. Richard Childress Racing swapped crews and crew chiefs from the No. 07 and No. 29 in an attempt to improve performance. Hendrick Motorsports was also rumored this week to be contemplating a shift; Hendrick officials denied such a plan was in place. [...]
The Future of NASCAR Media
April 24th, 2009 Journo I was prompted to write this post by a New York Times article sent to me by a colleague the other day. The article, J-Schools Play Catchup, was about the rush by journalism schools around the country to adapt to the changing media landscape. The moral of the story is, if you are a journalist [...]
Why Danica Patrick Is Not Coming To NASCAR
April 22nd, 2009 T.C. It seems as though at a certain point each year, for the past few years anyway, we invariably get into the “will Danica move to NASCAR” debate. In the past she’s been pretty quick to brush the talk aside, but now something has changed. This is a post I’ve been thinking about writing for a [...]
UPDATE: Trouble At Trail?
April 22nd, 2009 T.C. After we reported on Monday about serious problems at Trail Motorsports, including employees not being paid and the organization’s lack of equipment, the team’s future now appears to be even more in doubt. When the entry list for this weekend’s Truck Series race at Kansas came out on Monday, Chase Austin and the Trail #32 were on [...]
