After all the talk leading up to this weekend about Talladega being a wild card race (yes, I’m guilty too), it turned out to be quite the opposite. Instead of being a track where championship hopefuls have their chances dashed away with one wrong move and “the big one,” all we’ve come out the other [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Talladega Answers No Questions
October 31st, 2010 
T.C. 
Posted in NASCAR News 
Tags: Championship, Chase, Denny Hamlin, homestead, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, phoenix, talladega, Texas, wild card 
7 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Oct. 24-30
October 30th, 2010 Journo Rumors and speculation about Richard Petty Motorsports’ future continued to dominate the news this week. Team officials continue to say that all four teams will finish the season. Hendrick Motorsports announced that starting in 2011, the AARP’s Drive To End Hunger campaign will be the primary sponsor on Jeff Gordon’s #24 for 22 races a [...]
I Like That Talladega Is A Wild Card
October 28th, 2010 T.C. If there is one thing we’ve heard about this weekend’s race at Talladega, it’s that it will be unpredictable. The COT combined with the restrictor plate and the current rules package means the cars will run around the 2.66 mile superspeedway in tight packs. And tight packs often mean big wrecks. What I don’t really [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Chase, COT, Daytona, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, restrictor plate, Talladega Superspeedway 5 Comments »NASCAR, Get Your House (or Hall) in Order
October 28th, 2010 Journo The NASCAR Hall of Fame took center stage a couple of weeks ago as they announced their second class of inductees. The morning after the announcement though the Charlotte Observer’s front page story about the Hall wasn’t concerned with the class, instead, its focus was the money problems the Hall is plagued with. For the [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: charlotte, CRVA, NASCAR, nascar hall of fame, Tim Newman, Winston Kelley 17 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #98
October 26th, 2010 T.C. From the smallest track on the circuit, to the largest, we are headed for Talladega this week. The Truck Series kicks things off on Saturday, with a very important race for the Cup cars on Sunday. And with another week comes more of your questions and our attempts at answers. If you don’t know what this [...]
Always Be Ready For An Audible
October 25th, 2010 T.C. As pit crew members, we always have to be ready for anything. We’ve got to keep our eyes open for other cars (and our own) on pit road so as to not get hit during a stop. We have to be prepared to fix crash damage at a moment’s notice. We have to make spring rubber, [...]
Posted in Over The Wall Tags: audible, Chad Walter, four tires, Gateway, Justin Allgaier, Nationwide Series, pit crew, pit stop, strategy, two tires No Comments »Is This What We’ve Come To?
October 25th, 2010 Journo Justin Allgaier has had a solid season. In his second year in the Nationwide Series he has one win, two poles, 11 top-fives, 19 top-10s, 221 laps led (including 88 laps led this weekend) and a solid lock on fourth place in the points. He’s the leading Nationwide-only driver in the points and one of [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: Oct. 17-23
October 23rd, 2010 Journo Richard Petty Motorsports led the news this week after Kasey Kahne was released from the team and subsequent news and rumors emerged regarding the financial health of the team. Team executives said this weekend many of the rumors were unsubstantiated. In other news, after weeks of speculation about his future, it was announced Scott Speed’s [...]
In NASCAR, As In Life, Nothing Is Certain
October 22nd, 2010 Journo If you need proof of that recount the last 48 hours. On Monday and Tuesday we were talking about Kasey Kahne, Richard Petty Motorsports and the frustration that permeated that relationship. Then Wednesday night Kahne was unexpectedly released from the team and Thursday, as Lee Spencer wrote, “the house of cards is finally falling for [...]
It Was Time For Kahne To Go
October 20th, 2010 T.C. Just as I was about to complete and publish a post on Wednesday night about Kasey Kahne and his lame duck situation, the story broke that Kahne had been released from Richard Petty Motorsports. And just like that, my 600 word post was out the window. Oh well. I then spent the next 30 minutes [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: contract, Kasey Kahne, lame duck, Red Bull Racing, release, Richard Petty Motorsports 39 Comments »