Posts from ‘May, 2009’

The struggles of some teams on pit road this season have been well documented, as have some of the problems facing the crews this season with regard to some different rules and a shift in the competition.  With that you will often hear the TV people talking about all the pressure that is on the crews [...]

Familiar storylines led the news this week. Jeremy Mayfield filed suit against NASCAR in Mecklenburg County Court on Friday. Mayfield is seeking reinstatement after he failed a random drug test given by the sanctioning body at Richmond. Dale Earnhardt Jr. also made news this week after Hendrick Motorsports replaced his crew chief and cousin, Tony [...]

While I was involved in about 20 separate conversations today on Twitter, all about Danica Patrick and all at the same time, this post idea came to me.  The topic of Danica moving to NASCAR has picked up speed over the last few weeks, and everyone is throwing their two cents in (we wrote about it [...]

I have been thinking this week a lot about ways to improve NASCAR. I’m sure you have too.
This is something NASCAR is also doing as their avid fans soften and their casual fans are starting to walk away (in research NASCAR classifies fans as avid or casual).
I don’t have any solutions but after really putting [...]

After a monster weekend of weather in Charlotte, all three of NASCAR’s top series now head to the Monster Mile at Dover, DE.  While teams prepare for the weekend ahead, we’ve got our 25th edition of reader questions and answer to get into.  If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we [...]

At the start of 2009, the outlook for NASCAR and its teams was bleak.  The economy was tanking and people were talking about the possibility of less then 43 cars showing up at California and beyond.  Then a funny thing happened.  Where team contraction and minimal sponsorship had created holes in entry lists, some folks [...]

So I’m about to blow your mind. Are you ready? NASCAR wants their fans to be happy.
I know this is a tough thing to swallow but they really do.
In all seriousness though, NASCAR really isn’t out to make their fans hate what they are watching. In fact it is quite the opposite.
On Tuesday NASCAR has [...]

Once again Jeremy Mayfield dominated the week as he continued to defend himself against a failed drug test and subsequent suspension by NASCAR. Mayfield hired prominent Charlotte trial lawyer Bill Diehl to defend him. Among Diehl’s other famous clients are NASCAR driver Elliott Sadler, Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn and former Carolina Panther and convicted [...]

On the eve of the biggest motorsports weekend of the year I can’t help but reflect on what Indy Racing once was and could have been. *I know this is the NASCAR Insiders, but I want to talk about this.*
I have watched some of the coverage from Indianapolis this year and in my opinion it’s [...]

Really Carl Long?  Too many cubic inches?  At what point did you really think that was a good idea?  There is “working in the gray areas,” and then there is cheating.  What Long did was about as blatant as cheating gets.
In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, Carl Long was suspended for twelve [...]