After a nice (but brief) vacation, both myself and Journo are returning to action this week. As Journo said last week, we are going to cut down our posting frequency during the off-season to a post for Monday, Ask The Insiders on Wednesday, a post for Friday, and the Saturday links post. If something interesting pops [...]
Archive for November, 2009
And We’re Back!
November 29th, 2009 
T.C. A Points Update and The Off-Season Plan For TNI
November 24th, 2009 Journo As promised here is an update of the points under the old points system. If you didn’t catch it, I wrote a post the other day about it. 1. #48 Jimmie Johnson, 5156 2. #24-Jeff Gordon, 5090, -66 3. #14-Tony Stewart, 5085, -71 4. #11-Denny Hamlin, 4806, -350 5. #5-Mark Martin, 4762, -394 6. #2-Kurt [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, NASCAR News 
Tags: Brian Vickers, chase points, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, NASCAR, old points system, points, Tony Stewart 
13 Comments »The Best And Worst Of NASCAR In 2009
November 22nd, 2009 Journo For those of you who follow us on Twitter, you know every Monday we do a ‘best and worst’ of the weekend tweet. With the 2009 season now in the bag, we thought it might be fun to bring it over to the blog and ask you to do your best and worst of the [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: Nov. 15-21
November 22nd, 2009 Journo 36 races and thousands of laps. The end of the 2009 season is upon us. Ron Hornaday Jr. clinched the Camping World Truck Series Championship last weekend with his team owner Kevin Harvick winning the owner’s championship Friday night after a close battle with Billy Ballew. Kyle Busch won the Nationwide Series Championship by starting [...]
Ambrose Quietly Making Moves
November 20th, 2009 Journo This season has yielded some good surprises. Juan Pablo Montoya has had a break through season, earning a Chase berth; David Reutimann has had some strong runs and his first win; and at age 50 Mark Martin has proven age doesn’t need to be a factor. Another guy making moves, perhaps a little under the [...]
Guess Who’s Winning Without The Chase?
November 19th, 2009 Journo Since its inception in 2004 the Chase has been one of the more contentious issues among fans. I know many of you don’t like it. So I think it’s interesting every year to look at the standings as if we were still under the old points system. This is something I did last year (here [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Championship, Chase, Jimmie Johnson, no chase, old points system, points system, Sprint Cup, Winston Cup 27 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #50
November 17th, 2009 T.C. The last race of the season is upon us. Come Sunday night, the 2009 season will be over. But what won’t end, is Ask The Insiders Wednesday. We’ve got our 50th batch of questions and answers for you. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be answering any and [...]
Teams Already Tweaking Crews For Next Season
November 16th, 2009 T.C. You may not realize it, but while the 2009 season still isn’t officially over yet, preparations for 2010 have already begun. One area that teams will spend the last few races working on, is changes to their pit crews. To the untrained eye, it may appear to be business as usual for your favorite driver [...]
Posted in Over The Wall Tags: catch can man, changes, Crew Chief, development, gas man, jackman, new, pit crew, pit crew coach, pit stop, team, tire carrier, Tire Changer 5 Comments »Keselowski Continues To Make Enemies
November 16th, 2009 T.C. Following another run-in with Brad Keselowski during Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Phoenix, Dave Burns of ESPN asked Denny Hamlin if NASCAR needed to get involved. Hamlin responded: “No, no, I’ll take care of him. It’s no biggy. I got him.” Anybody else looking forward to this situation heading to Homestead? In his ascension to the Cup [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: banging, Brad Keselowski, Brian France, bumping, Dave Burns, Denny Hamlin, homestead, incident, John Darby, phoenix, retaliation 24 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Nov. 8-14
November 15th, 2009 Journo Just two races to go in the 2009 season and after a wild one last week at Texas, the championship chase has once again tightened up. After a couple of weeks of speculation and conversations Earnhardt Ganassi Racing decided to return with Chevrolet for the 2010 season. The organization reportedly had conversations with Toyota. Sponsorship [...]
