A slower than normal news week followed an emotional win for Denny Hamlin at Pocono Raceway last weekend. Buzz of a crew chief swap at Richard Petty Motorsports led the news this week. While it hasn’t happened quite yet, it sounds as if Mike Shiplett, crew chief of the #43, and Sammy Johns, crew chief [...]
Archive for August, 2009
NASCAR Needs One More Road Course Race
August 6th, 2009 
T.C. Since we are at a road course this week, I thought this would be the perfect time to bring up the NASCAR road course debate. Some people, both inside and outside the sport, say they need to be eliminated from the schedule all together. I personally think we need to keep the two races we [...]
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: Infineon, Laguna Seca, NASCAR, road course, road racing, Schedule, Watkins Glen 
37 Comments »Ever Tried to Do Your Job Backward?
August 5th, 2009 T.C. This is a post we ran last year about this time, and because we are racing at Watkins Glen this weekend, we thought it would be fun to revisit this topic. Enjoy! I have… The Nationwide and Cup Series are heading north this weekend to the Finger Lakes region of New York and the historic [...]
Posted in Over The Wall Tags: Infineon Raceway, jackman, pit crew, pit stop, road course, tire carrier, Tire Changer, Watkins Glen 7 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #35
August 4th, 2009 T.C. It’s a short week for the Cup guys following the Monday race at Pocono. This weekend, both the Nationwide and Cup Series travel to the Finger Lakes region of New York to race at the road course in Watkins Glen. But before we head north to turn left and right, we’ve got more reader questions. If you don’t know what [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: hat dance, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, lucky dog, pit crew, pit road, rain delay, slicks, victory lane 7 Comments »I’ve Got A Theory About The Strange Situation at Red Bull
August 3rd, 2009 T.C. With all that has happened this year, one storyline that has seemingly been lost in the shuffle a bit is the situation at Team Red Bull. Another “we’re getting closer” story about Red Bull’s plans for 2010 and beyond appeared over the weekend on NASCAR.com. We didn’t learn anything new from it, and TRB’s GM [...]
The Other Side of the Garage
August 2nd, 2009 Journo You know in a lot of neighborhoods how there is that one street that’s just different from the others. It’s not necessarily a bad street, it’s just different. The yards aren’t kept up and there are big oil stains in the driveways. Well the garage throughout all of NASCAR’s national series are a lot like [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: July 26-Aug. 1
August 1st, 2009 Journo One week after the biggest speeding ticket of Juan Pablo Montoya’s life, the Cup cars head to the Pennsylvania Mountains. Sponsor news was the big topic of discussion this week as Crown Royal and Roush Fenway Racing announced their shift to Matt Kenseth; news came that Lowe’s would be ending its 11 year relationship with [...]
