The 2010 racing season is officially upon us! The Rolex 24 at Daytona kicked it off Saturday, and haulers carrying stock cars will roll into DIS this week. Daytona 500 qualifying and the Budweiser Shootout headline a busy upcoming weekend. Along with the NASCAR events, the ARCA Series will open it’s season with the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Big TV Ratings Upcoming for ARCA Opener?
January 31st, 2010 
T.C. 
Posted in Driver Development, Racing Observations 
Tags: Alli Owens, Amber Cope, ARCA Series, Bill Baird, Budweiser Shootout, Dakoda Armstrong, Danica Patrick, Daytona 500, Daytona International Speedway, Frank Kimmel, James Buescher, Jennifer Jo Cobb, Leilani Munter, Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200, Milka Duno, NASCAR, Nelson Piquet Jr. 
16 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Jan. 24-30
January 31st, 2010 Journo T-minus two weeks until the Daytona 500. Danica Patrick led the news this week as JR Motorsports released her 2010 schedule. Patrick is expected to make her first start at Daytona or California. In other news NASCAR confirmed this week a cut in purse payouts across all three series. The move is intended to save [...]
A Possible Miccosukee Exit and Finally Some Racing at Daytona
January 29th, 2010 Journo The Charlotte Observer’s Jim Utter reported earlier in the week about the potential exit of Miccosukee from NASCAR. The Florida Indian Tribe was set to sponsor a truck for Kyle Busch Motorsports and Nationwide and Cup Series teams for Phoenix Racing. For Kyle Busch Motorsports, the potential move by the tribe would certainly cause headaches. [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #59
January 26th, 2010 T.C. Cars will be back on track at Daytona in just a few short days! The Rolex 24 kicks off Speedweeks at Daytona this weekend. But before it does, it’s Q & A time. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So if you’ve got one, click on [...]
NASCAR Making Progress With Drug Testing
January 24th, 2010 T.C. Amid all of the hub bub from last week’s Media Tour, it was announced that NASCAR was adding the drug policy to it’s rule book for each series. The 2009 season was the first for a hard and fast policy against substance abuse for NASCAR, and needless to say, it didn’t go so well. An [...]
Posted in In the Shop, NASCAR News, Over The Wall Tags: banned, Dr. David Black, drug, drug test, drug testing, NASCAR, policy, rule book, substance abuse 11 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Jan. 17-23
January 24th, 2010 Journo Just two and a half weeks left until Daytona and you know what that means? It was media tour time around Charlotte this week and the sport was buzzing. Through all of that NASCAR led the news with rule changes and the announced promotion of Cup Series Director John Darby. Among the changes, NASCAR made [...]
Respect John Darby
January 22nd, 2010 Journo From the moment the news leaked earlier in the week that Sprint Cup Series Director John Darby was moving to a new position within NASCAR, speculation has run rampant that he’s being pushed out, demoted, or being made a scapegoat. Even fans have gotten in on the act, applauding Darby’s move (in a bad way). [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #58
January 19th, 2010 T.C. It’s a busy NASCAR week, as the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour means a ton of news and announcements. And the Media Tour means we inch ever closer to Daytona. And as we do, it’s Wednesday again, and that means more of your questions and our answers. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: decklid, Michael Waltrip, RCR, richard childress racing, SPEED, spolier, Sponsor, This Week In NASCAR, wing 7 Comments »2009 TNI Rumor Scorecard
January 17th, 2010 T.C. After the 2008 season, we decided to look back over the season and see how we did in terms of reporting on rumors and breaking some news. In the end, we got eight correct, had two pushes, screwed one up, and had three rumors outstanding. With 2009 behind us, I thought it would be fun to [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Baker Curb Racing, breaking news, Brian Ickler, drug testing, Eric Phillips, Fastenal, Greg Biffle, john wes townley, Johnny Benson, JR Motorsports, Kevin Harvick Inc., Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports, Michael McDowell, Parker Kligerman, Randy Moss Motorsports, RCR, Rick Ren, rule changes, rumors, Silly Season, Trail Motorsport, Truck Series, Wyler Racing 2 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Jan. 10-16
January 17th, 2010 Journo Roush Fenway Racing led the news this week as they worked out a deal to liquidate the #26 team. The deal with Vermont businessman Bill Jenkins gives him equipment, points and the number for a start-up team. Jenkins has named Frank Stoddard as crew chief. We also got quasi-confirmation of NASCAR’s anticipated switch back to [...]
