We had a question in yesterday’s Ask The Insiders Wednesday about what appears to be a growing drug problem in NASCAR, and I wanted to take a little bit more space and expand on my answer to reader Tony. The question was no doubt spawned by the announcement on Tuesday this week that yet another [...]
Archive for June, 2010
The Reality of NASCAR’s Drug “Problem”
June 30th, 2010 
T.C. 
Posted in NASCAR News 
Tags: drug testing, Drugs, NASCAR, reader question, substance abuse policy 
17 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #81
June 30th, 2010 T.C. Surprisingly, we’ve already reached the mid point of the Cup Series season. The Truck Series remains off for another week, but both the NNS and Cup cars will head to Daytona for racing under the lights. The NNS teams are at the beach already getting ready for their race, and the Cup haulers will be [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, COT, drug policy, handling, haulers, nascar officials, penalties, pit road, setup 9 Comments »Jimmie Johnson Back? Ha! He Never Left!
June 29th, 2010 Journo Look around and you’ll see a common headline: ‘Jimmie Johnson is back.’ For weeks many questioned whether the #48 team had lost its Midas touch. After all Johnson went (gasp!) 10 races in between wins. In that time he had two DNFs, and three finishes worse than 30th. Jimmie had hit rock bottom. Or had [...]
I Don’t See Nothing Wrong… With A Little Bump-And-Run
June 27th, 2010 T.C. I don’t care who you are, if you didn’t think the end of the race at Loudon was good, then you aren’t a race fan. There, I said it. As a whole, I realize this probably wasn’t the most exciting race of the season, but the last 15 laps were awesome. We saw Jeff Burton [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: June 20-26
June 27th, 2010 Journo It was an old name that led the news this week. In it’s second major drug related penalty in a year, NASCAR suspended two-time Nationwide Series champion Randy Lajoie after he tested positive for marijuana. Lajoie immediately apologized for what he said was a one-time incident. In other news, Bobby Labonte left TRG Motorsports after [...]
Logano Needs To Quit Talking And Just Get Payback
June 24th, 2010 T.C. When it comes to racing Joey Logano, a pattern is starting to emerge with how some of the veterans treat the young driver. And the message from the veterans appears to be that they don’t respect this kid very much. Recent run-ins with Kevin Harvick and Juan Pablo Montoya kept Logano from good finishes at Pocono [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: Greg Biffle, Joey Logano, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kevin Harvick, payback, revenge 22 Comments »The Joie Of Being Honest
June 24th, 2010 Journo Randy Lajoie made a stupid decision. And he got caught. He quickly admitted to it, and deftly handled the situation. Thankfully everyone seems to be moving on. From the outset, Lajoie took his crisis management skills into overdrive. He skillfully got in front of the story, and was able to effectively shape the message. There [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Drugs, failed drug test, NASCAR, Randy Lajoie, suspension 20 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #80
June 23rd, 2010 T.C. With road course racing in the rear view, both the Cup and NNS cars head north to Loudon this week. After what transpired at Infineon, the Magic Mile may play host to a little payback for some drivers. While they ponder their revenge, we’ve got more reader questions and answers. If you don’t know what [...]
Cheat? Or Get Fired?
June 22nd, 2010 T.C. With some of the recent incidents we’ve seen with cheating, namely the Front Row/bleeder valve situation, an interesting dilemma was brought up to me by Journo. Before I get into it, I just want to say that this is completely hypothetical. I can’t say I’ve ever actually heard of this happening. Anyway, back to the [...]
Loudon Getting ‘Concorded’ By Bruton Smith
June 21st, 2010 Journo Concord (verb) – when a race track/auto dealership magnate threatens a municipality with the removal of a race event, or entire racetrack, in order to get what he wants – refers to what happened to the city of Concord, N.C. Last week Bruton Smith took his fight with the police chief of Loudon, N.H. public. [...]
