We’ve still got a ways to go before the Sprint Cup season has ended and we crown our champion, but never fear if you’re looking for a good conclusion to a motorsports season we’ve got three this weekend. The ARCA Re/Max, IndyCar, and Grand-Am seasons all come to an end this weekend; and all three [...]
Archive for October, 2009
A Weekend of Championship Races
October 7th, 2009 
Journo Ask The Insiders Wednesday #44
October 6th, 2009 T.C. We’ve got a short list of questions this week before the Cup and Nationwide Series head to California. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be answering any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So if you’ve got one, click on the ”Ask the Insiders” tab at the [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders 
Tags: aggressive driving, Brad Keselowski, Carl Long, Darlington, Goodyear, pit stops, tires 
4 Comments »Kudos To Joey Logano
October 5th, 2009 T.C. I’ve taken a little grief from the readers regarding my post from last week about Joey Logano needing a short memory after wrecking big at Dover. Some of you thought I was reading too much into his post wreck comments (to be honest, Journo thought I was too), and that you thought he would be fine. [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Cup Series, Dover, fear, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Kansas, Nationwide Series, wreck 3 Comments »What Do Two 19-Year-Olds, Tony Stewart, Hendrick and ‘Crash Gate’ Have In Common?
October 5th, 2009 Journo …nothing other than they’re all in my weekend notes (lame I know). Saturday was a good day to be 19. Well a good day to be 19 if you happened to drive in the Nationwide Series. In his first career NASCAR appearance on Saturday, 19-year-old Parker Kligerman scored his first career pole. Then 19-year-old Joey [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: Sept. 27- Oct. 3
October 3rd, 2009 Journo It was a slow news week this week as we headed into the third race of the Chase at Kansas. In one of the more interesting pairings in sports, it was announced this week that George Gillett and Saudi Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Saud, had, among other things, entered into an agreement to [...]
A Saudi Prince? Why Not?
October 2nd, 2009 Journo I’ve got to say NASCAR fans, I’m a little disappointed. I was looking around at unnamed Web sites and I came across a story about George Gillett and his partnership with Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Saud of Saudi Arabia (if his last name didn’t tip you off). What I found was a very [...]
