It’s back to the Irish Hills this week as NASCAR rolls into Michigan International Speedway and inches closer to the start of the Chase. But before we head to Brooklyn (Michigan that is), it’s time to answer your questions! If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #87
August 11th, 2010 
Journo Pattie, Montoya, EGR In Trouble…Now A Distant Memory
August 10th, 2010 Journo Before I begin, I just really need to get this off my chest…I told you so. For the last week some in the NASCAR media have been trying to turn fleeting anger between Juan Pablo Montoya and Brian Pattie into the feud of the century…the ‘beginning of the end?’ some asked. I think Sunday proved [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: Brian Pattie, CGR, Chip Ganassi, Earnhardt Ganassi, EGR, Juan Pablo Montoya, Target 
6 Comments »Watkins Glen Garage Chatter
August 8th, 2010 T.C. The Watkins Glen road course provided some great racing this weekend, but while the action on track was interesting, so were some of the rumors floating around the garage. We heard a few different bits this weekend that we wanted to share, and I figured I’d weigh in on them with some of my own [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Bob Jenkins, Brian Vickers, chatter, Elliott Sadler, Extenze, Front Row Motorsports, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Conway, Marcos Ambrose, NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Paul Menard, Red Bull Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, rumors, Scott Speed, Silly Season, Watkins Glen 18 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Aug. 1-7
August 8th, 2010 Journo As NASCAR inches ever closer to the Chase for the Sprint Cup it was Silly Season and schedule news that led the week. AJ Allmendinger and Richard Petty Motorsports announced this week an extension on his deal to drive the famed #43. Allmendinger has been with RPM since 2008. In other Silly Season news, speculation [...]
It’s Been A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Silly Season
August 5th, 2010 T.C. I wonder if we will ever quit referring to driver and sponsor movements as the Silly Season. It was initially called that because it referred to a specific part of the season when all this started happening. Now it seems that it starts in February at Daytona. Sorry, I digress… Has the 2010 Silly Season [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR Tags: 2010, bobby labonte, Brian Vickers, Elliott Sadler, hendrick motorsports, JTG Daugherty Racing, Justin Allgaier, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Marcos Ambrose, Mark Martin, Paul Menard, Red Bull Racing, richard childress racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Sam Hornish, Scott Speed, Shell-Pennzoil, Silly Season 11 Comments »Montoya, Pattie Relationship Rocky. Then Again…
August 5th, 2010 Journo Two weeks, two problems and frustrations again boiled over on the radio between Juan Pablo Montoya and his crew chief Brian Pattie. With the four tire stop that cost them the race at the Brickyard still fresh in their minds, Montoya entered the pits for a late race stop at Pocono. As he pulled in [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #86
August 4th, 2010 T.C. Road racing returns this weekend as the Cup and NNS cars head up to Watkins Glen. While they are turning left and right, and doing backwards pit stops, the truck series takes on the Nashville Superspeedway. As we work through another week, here are more reader questions and answers. If you don’t know what this post [...]
NASCAR Missing Out Big With Online Offerings
August 3rd, 2010 T.C. As NASCAR continues to look for ways to improve the sport, both on and off the track, one area I believe they are missing a huge opportunity is with their online content. While there are plenty of articles, blog posts, and video clips available at NASCAR.com and the many other racing related websites, NASCAR is trailing [...]
‘Green’ Sponsor Backing TJ Bell At Darlington
August 2nd, 2010 T.C. When T.J. Bell returns to the CWTS on August 14th at Darlington, it will be with the help of a new ‘green’ sponsor. It will be announced Tuesday that Liberty Tire Recycling, the nation’s largest tire recycler, will be the primary sponsor for MAKE Motorsports and the #50 truck for the Too Tough To Tame 200. [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: CWTS, Darlington, Liberty Tire Recyclers, MAKE Motorsports, TJ Bell, Too Tough To Tame 200 1 Comment »The COT Saves Again
August 2nd, 2010 Journo To use the words of the late David Poole, Dale Earnhardt saved Elliott Sadler’s life on Sunday. What happened to Elliott Sadler on the backstretch (between turns one and two) late in the race at Pocono isn’t exactly clear to those of us who didn’t happen to be in a car and on the backstretch [...]
Posted in NASCAR at the Track, Racing Observations Tags: armco, Car of Tomorrow, COT, Dale Earnhardt, David Poole, Elliott Sadler, ESPN, Kurt Busch, Pocono Raceway, RPM, safer, safer barrier, safety 11 Comments »