I know this is getting beat to death around the NASCAR world, but I think it’s a worthy subject. I’m talking about NASCAR, at least preliminarily, relenting on changes to the COT. As of right now nothing has been done and nothing has been announced and all we’ve got from NASCAR is “maybe talk,” but [...]
Archive for January, 2010
NASCAR Is Listening; and a Points Clarification
January 15th, 2010 
Journo 
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: Bobby Ginn, Chip Ganassi, COT, David Hill, Fan Council, media tour, NASCAR, points, rule changes, Smith-Ganassi Racing 
5 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #57
January 12th, 2010 T.C. The end of the NASCAR offseason draws ever closer, but to tide you over until Daytona arrives, we’ve got more reader questions and answers. 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 the ”Ask the Insiders” tab at the top [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: 3, cautions, debris, DEI, gauge, Ginn, NASCAR, numbers, owners, ownership, pit crew, points, Reed Sorenson, Rusty Wallace Racing, RWR, spoiler, Teresa Earnhardt, tire pressure, wing 15 Comments »Changing Tires: It’s All In Your Head
January 10th, 2010 T.C. If there is one thing I’ve learned about changing tires in my career, it’s that the only way to be successful is to get my head straight. If I’m not focused when I step off the wall, I’m defeated before I’ve even started. Hitting 20 lugnuts becomes very difficult, and mistakes are in my future. [...]
Posted in Over The Wall Tags: cocky, confidence, focus, fundamental, head, mental, mind, mistake, pit crew, pit stop, success, Tire Changer 8 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Jan. 3-9
January 9th, 2010 Journo Just over a month left to Daytona, things are beginning to fall into place across all three series. It was announced Ken Schrader would drive Team Red Bull Racing’s #84 for the Budweiser Shootout. Bill Elliott is rumored to be working on a deal to drive Roush-Fenway’s #6 car in the Shootout. Aric Almirola said [...]
The Continued Evolution of NASCAR Media
January 8th, 2010 Journo The state of traditional media, print, broadcast or otherwise, throughout the United States is at best rocky right now, at worst, it’s at death’s door. While many would argue the reports of the demise of traditional media are overstated or exaggerated, one thing is for sure, it ain’t like it used to be. The number [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: David Poole, ESPN, FoxSports, Jeff Gluck, media, media center, NASCAR, NASCAR Media, NASCAR Scene, Winston Cup Scene 8 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #56
January 5th, 2010 T.C. From the last to the first! Yes, it’s the first Ask The Insiders Wednesday of 2010, so lets get this year started off right. 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 the ”Ask the Insiders” tab at the top [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: ask.com, Casey Atwood, Fox, insurance, pit crew, Practice, RCR, ricky craven, tires 8 Comments »They Don’t Call It ‘Race City USA’ For Nothing
January 3rd, 2010 T.C. It seems that everywhere you go in Mooresville, or really the entire Charlotte area for that matter, you always seem to run into somebody who works in racing. Those of you who read this blog that live in and around Charlotte will know what I’m talking about. And maybe it is something that shouldn’t surprise me [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: charlotte, community, crew, Crew Chief, Mooresville, NASCAR, Race City USA, racing 5 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Dec. 27-Jan. 2
January 3rd, 2010 Journo Happy New Year everyone! Another holiday week meant another typically slow news week in this NASCAR off-season. Furniture Row and Front Row topped the headlines this week. Travis Kvapil announced Thursday he would drive full time for Front Row Motorsports in 2010. The team is also expected to field Kevin Conway as a Rookie of [...]
Undeniably A Decade Of Change
January 1st, 2010 Journo By the time you read this the “unnamed decade” will have ended (and not a moment too soon if you ask me). Through triumph and through tragedy this decade for NASCAR can be simply defined by one word: change. Winston left us and so did Benny Parsons and Bill France Jr. COT and Chase became [...]
