Fallout from the announced/intended Yates/Petty merger led the news this week. RPM VP and Managing Director of Competition Mark McArdle was fired this week after being suspended in Richmond for a heated argument with team co-owner George Gillett. It also came to light this week that RPM driver Reed Sorenson isn’t receiving a salary from [...]
Archive for September, 2009
An Open Letter to Wayne Auton
September 17th, 2009 
Journo Dear Wayne, What a year we’ve had! The battles, the triumphs and the moments of defeat; it’s been a good season so far. Especially last week. Did you see that race? I guess you did. Anyway I should tell you, I’m a big fan of the truck series. In fact it may even be my [...]
Did Kenseth Block Waltrip On Purpose?
September 16th, 2009 T.C. We normally save reader questions for our Wednesday Q&A posts, but I got this one in my email today, and I thought it would be interesting to throw this one out there for some discussion. From reader Dave: At Richmond last week, on the first two pit stops, Michael Waltrip blocked Matt Kenseth in his pit [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders, Racing Observations 
Tags: Matt Kenseth, Michael Waltrip, pit crew, pit road, pit stall, pit stop, Richmond 
18 Comments »Parker Kligerman, Wyler Racing, & Michael McDowell
September 16th, 2009 T.C. Silly Season has picked up considerably over the last few weeks, and we’ve got a few more bits to add to the mix. First, we are hearing that Penske Racing developmental driver Parker Kligerman, who currently co-leads the ARCA RE/MAX Series points, may run a few Nationwide Series races towards the end of the season. [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #41
September 15th, 2009 T.C. The Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship officially gets under way this Sunday. The Nationwide boys are off, while the Truck Series joins the Cup cars at Loudon. And since it’s Wednesday, we’ve got more of your questions and our answers. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be answering [...]
Fans At The Banquet? Come On
September 14th, 2009 Journo NASCAR announced on Monday, for the first time ever, fans would have the opportunity to attend NASCAR’s end of season banquet at the Wynn Las Vegas. The idea will give the top-12 teams access to about 300 tickets, what NASCAR says is about one-quarter of the audience, to use for fan promotions/contests/sweepstakes. In the press [...]
Please Tell Me You Saw That Truck Race
September 14th, 2009 T.C. If you happen to be one of the many race fans who is unhappy with the Cup Series and the current perceived lack of “racing” and action, then you need to seek out the Truck Series. We’ve said it several times here on this blog, but these guys put on probably the best show, week in [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Gateway, matt crafton, mike skinner, new hampshire, ron hornaday, todd bodine, Truck Series 13 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Sept. 6-12
September 13th, 2009 Journo 26 races, thousands of laps, heart break and triumph and NASCAR has reached the end of its regular season with a real humdinger at Richmond. While the Chase was on everybody’s mind leading up to this weekend’s race, wouldn’t you know it we had bigger news. Richard Petty Motorsports announced Thursday they had signed a letter [...]
Yates Racing The Latest Victim Of Down Economy
September 10th, 2009 T.C. It was announced on Thursday that Yates Racing and Richard Petty Motorsports will merge for 2010 and that the new team will race Fords. This new team owned by the Gilletts, Richard Petty, Ray Evernham, Boston Ventures, Doug Yates, and Max Jones (whoa) will campaign four teams with drivers Kasey Kahne, A.J. Allmendinger, Elliott Sadler, and [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, bobby labonte, Boston Ventures, Doug Yates, Elliott Sadler, erik darnell, Gillett, Hall of Fame Racing, Jamie McMurray, Kasey Kahne, Max Jones, Paul Menard, Ray Evernham, Reed Sorenson, Richard Petty, Richard Petty Motorsports, Robert Yates, Yates Racing 27 Comments »Down On NASCAR? Find The NASCAR Media Group
September 9th, 2009 Journo It’s been a couple of days since I’ve been called a NASCAR homer, and honestly I’m starting to think some of you are changing your mind, so I figure let’s end that for a couple of weeks. Let me back up for a second though. I was surfing around the other day and came across [...]
