When you are racing at 190MPH, six inches from your competitor, sometimes things will go wrong. Drivers are human after all, and mistakes will be made. It only takes the smallest miscalculation by a driver to cause a wreck. And often, when you are racing at 190MPH and a wreck happens in front of you, [...]
Archive for February, 2011
A Couple of Interesting Things Happened This Weekend
February 27th, 2011 
Journo Did you notice the short field in the Nationwide Series this weekend? Certainly not a great indicator of health of the sport. But then did you notice the fields in the Cup and especially the Truck Series? Those should make us all feel a little better. Consider this: there were 40 cars on the Nationwide [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: Feb. 20-26
February 26th, 2011 Journo Trevor Bayne’s emotional Daytona 500 victory led the news this week, the first week of the regular season. The 20-year-old Bayne gave the legendary Wood Brothers their first win in 10 years and first Daytona 500 win in 30 years. In other news, Ray Evernham filed a lawsuit against Booth Creek Management and Gillett Gems [...]
Is It Time To Start Taking Away Wins?
February 25th, 2011 Journo NASCAR issued the inaugural fines of the season on Tuesday – in fact they were the inaugural fines for a newish team too. If you missed the penalty announcement or the act itself, NASCAR found: The No. 15 truck driven by Michael Waltrip was to be in violation of Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock [...]
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Tags: Billy Ballew, Michael Waltrip, NASCAR, penalty, spoiler, Vision Aviation Racing 
25 Comments »Petty Sold His Soul To Save RPM
February 23rd, 2011 T.C. We don’t normally read, let alone act on any PR emails we receive, but when I got a message about Forbes upcoming feature on NASCAR’s wealth, I got excited. Every year, Forbes magazine does a ranking of the most valuable teams in NASCAR, along with a list of the highest paid drivers. The leaders on [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Andrew Murstein, Douglas Bergeron, Forbes, Gillett, NASCAR, Richard Petty, RPM 4 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #114
February 22nd, 2011 T.C. Daytona is in the books, and it’s time to get focused on the weekly grind that is the NASCAR season. We’ve got a monster edition of ATIW for you, so we’ll get right to it. 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, [...]
Let’s Slow Down with Trevor Bayne
February 21st, 2011 Journo Do you have Trevor Bayne fever? If you don’t, you soon will. The epidemic that’s spreading across the NASCAR world is even overtaking those in the mainstream media. Thanks to the stature of the event (we always get the week after media tour) and the oddity of the winner this has become a big (and [...]
Was That What You’d Hoped For?
February 20th, 2011 T.C. The opening weekend of the 2011 NASCAR season is in the books. We saw spectacular finishes, a lot of action, and even some controversy. So from Friday’s wild Truck Series race, all the way through Sunday’s incredible finale, was Daytona what you’d hoped for? After Thursday’s Duel races, I can’t lie, I was afraid we might [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: Feb. 13-19
February 19th, 2011 Journo After four months we’re finally back on track, and we have our first points race winners of the season – though neither will receive points for their wins. After surviving through two “big ones” Michael Waltrip won an emotional Camping World Truck Series race on Friday, marking ten years to the day since his first [...]
NASCAR’s Rigged… Sure.
February 18th, 2011 Journo “There are people in and around the NASCAR world, not just drivers but people who cover the sport as well, who are winking at this one. … Someone I talked to who has covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60% chance that Junior qualified with a car [...]
