A Monday race means it’s a short week! Only a few more days before the weekend is here. The Cup Series gets another off weekend, while the Nationwide and Truck Series head to the Music City. 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 [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #68
March 30th, 2010 
T.C. 
Posted in Ask the Insiders 
Tags: bristol, carbon fiber, firesuits, NASCAR Technical Institute, NTI, patches, payouts, points, spoiler, tunnel, UTI, wing 
7 Comments »Don’t Change A Thing Martinsville…Except Your Date
March 30th, 2010 Journo What a race we had today! It had everything you could possibly want. There was beating and banging, flared tempers, dramatic events, wild strategy, three wide racing (at Martinsville!), no wing, double file restarts, a race that didn’t end under caution and Jimmie Johnson wasn’t in victory lane (though this was a negative for some [...]
Rain Delays Aren’t Good For Anyone
March 28th, 2010 T.C. I don’t know what it is about Martinsville, but I feel like it rains every time the NASCAR train stops in town. Some level of racing always happens, but it seems that it’s very rare for the both the Trucks and Cup cars to get the whole weekend in without incident. Now, we are heading [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Brian Neudorff, delay, Fans, Martinsville Speedway, postpone, rain, teams, tracks, tv, weather 5 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: March 21-27
March 27th, 2010 Journo It was another Jimmie Johnson win last week at Bristol. Johnson, who led 84 laps, made his winning pass with just six to go. He captured his third win of the season and 50th in his career. In other news, in the final week before NASCAR abandoned the embattled wing, Cup teams tested the new [...]
NASCAR And Its Place In The Mainstream
March 26th, 2010 Journo In the last two decades NASCAR’s leadership has taken great pains to expand the sport to just about every region of this country. East to West, North to South, the once regional sport hosts events all over the country – including events in the nation’s largest media markets. On top of that, NASCAR has active [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: 30 rock, mainstream media, media, NASCAR, NASCAR dad, NBC, press register, stereotype 29 Comments »Wait, You Do What For A Living?
March 24th, 2010 T.C. In case you don’t know what I do, I will take this opportunity to tell you. I’m on pit road every weekend changing tires for one of the many NASCAR teams. If you’ve watched a race live or seen one on TV, you have no doubt seen me work. You probably didn’t know it, but I [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #67
March 23rd, 2010 T.C. The teams have a short trip this weekend, as the Truck and Cup Series head to Martinsville, VA. The teams are also spending the week getting some spoiler testing done at Charlotte Motor Speedway. And while they work, we’ve got another round of questions and answers. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: ALMS, bristol, Champion Tire, contingency, COT, Goodyear, grand am, spoiler, team travel, wing 4 Comments »Penske Racing is BAAAACK
March 22nd, 2010 T.C. If a certain home improvement store sponsored Chevrolet hadn’t spoiled the show at Bristol, we might have seen a Penske clean sweep of the weekend. But even without the win on Sunday, Bristol showed that the Penske cars have come to play in 2010. On Saturday at Thunder Valley, Penske’s newly expanded Nationwide Series program stole the [...]
So Kyle, Do You Have Any Regrets?
March 21st, 2010 Journo It’s now been eight races, since Steve Addington gave up the reins of the #18 team to Dave Rogers. In that time, Kyle Busch has not done a whole lot. And while the season is still young, and Busch’s and Roger’s Cup partnership is still relatively new, I have to wonder if Kyle isn’t beginning [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Dave Rogers, jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Penske Racing, Steve Addington 6 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: March 14-20
March 20th, 2010 Journo NASCAR’s first team test of the new spoiler at Talladega led the news this week. Officials with NASCAR said they were pleased with the results of the test and said the spoiler would officially be implemented next weekend at Martinsville. Echoing NASCAR’s sentiment many drivers said they were eager to see spoiler in effect during [...]
