If you regularly read the site you know how much I love the Truck Series. As I’ve said here over and over again I think it consistently provides some of the best racing we saw in any given weekend. The past several weeks though, as we’ve been without the series, I’ve started to think about [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Richmond Will Be First Test For Newbie Arpin
April 28th, 2010 
T.C. Lost amid the Talladega chaos was the story of JR Motorsports newest driver, Steve Arpin. On Friday, Arpin went out and promptly put his Chevy in the second row during qualifying. Not bad for a kid who’d never driven an NNS car before. Once the race got started, the young Canadian ran as high as second, but was caught [...]
Posted in Driver Development, NASCAR News 
Tags: Dale Earnhardt Jr., JR Motorsports, Richmond, Steve Arpin, talladega 
2 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #72
April 27th, 2010 T.C. This week, we go from the high banks of Talladega to a Saturday night short track shootout in Richmond. The Nationwide cars will kick the racing weekend off on Friday night at RIR, while the Truck Series heads west to Kansas for a rare Sunday race. While we wait for the weekend to arrive, here’s [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: colin braun, David Reutimann, debris, erik darnell, impound races, Jon Wood, Justin Allgaier, Kurt Busch, lugnuts, Matt Kenseth, michael waltrip racing, penalties, Pennzoil, Penske Racing, Ricky Rudd, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., robby gordon, Roush Fenway Racing, talladega, transporters 11 Comments »Penske Perfectly Positioned
April 26th, 2010 Journo (Do you like the consonance?) From auto dealerships to Super Bowl XL, Roger Penske finds success in just about everything he does. His Penske Automotive Group, with 253 dealerships, is the second largest auto dealer group in the world. His Penske Truck Leasing manages more than 200,000 trucks around the world. And Penske is a [...]
Where Will Harvick Be Next Season?
April 26th, 2010 T.C. Isn’t it funny how things work out? Just a few short days after Shell announces it is leaving Richard Childress Racing and Kevin Harvick following this season for Penske Racing and Kurt Busch, Harvick goes out and wins in dramatic fashion at Talladega. I swear, sometimes truth is stranger then fiction. The win will no [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: April 18-24
April 25th, 2010 Journo Last week it was driver changes, this week was sponsor changes. Kasey Kahne’s announced move to Hendrick Motorsports for the 2011 season, set off the yearly Silly Season. On Wednesday Richard Childress Racing announced Shell-Pennzoil would not return to the team next season. The company found a new home at Penske Racing, where team owner [...]
Want ‘Inside NASCAR’? Show Them The Money
April 22nd, 2010 T.C. There was an interesting post by our friend John Daly today over at The Daly Planet regarding Showtime’s weekly NASCAR show, Inside NASCAR (see it here). Apparently since it’s inception, many fans have been angry that such a great NASCAR show is only available on a premium channel; especially since SPEED canceled their weekly show, This Week In NASCAR, in [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: ESPN, Fox, Inside NASCAR, NASCAR, NASCAR media group, Showtime, SPEED, The Daly Planet, This Week In NASCAR 26 Comments »Double Duty Wasn’t Just For The Drivers
April 21st, 2010 T.C. If you got to watch the races on Monday from Texas you may have heard the TV guys talking about the drivers who had to do double duty. Guys like Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Greg Biffle, and others got out of their Cup rides and had to immediately jump into their Nationwide cars for another [...]
Posted in NASCAR at the Track, Over The Wall Tags: Cup Series, double duty, Nationwide Series, pit crew, pit stop, spotter, Texas Motor Speedway 4 Comments »The NASCAR Insiders Reset
April 21st, 2010 T.C. As our readership continues to grow here at TNI, we just wanted to take a second to do a quick reset. For those of you who have been visiting us regularly for a while, you may have seen us do something like this in the past. I thought it might be a good time to [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #71
April 21st, 2010 T.C. Thanks to another Monday race, we’ve got a short week before we head to Talladega. The ARCA cars will take to the 2.66 mile tri-oval on Friday, with the Nationwide Series and Cup Series headlining the weekend. While the teams make last minute preparations, we’ve got more questions and answers for you. If you don’t know [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Bill Elliott, Crew Chief, deck fin, DNF, gear ratio, Hendrick, impound race, Kasey Kahne, radio, scanner, spotter 2 Comments »