Thinking about starting a NASCAR team? There is a lot to consider. You need sponsors, the right driver, a good crew chief, and the best equipment and personnel you can get. But, as history shows, if you screw up the name on the sign out front, you might as well kiss any success goodbye. This [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Give Your NASCAR Team A Chance, Give It The Right Name!
March 31st, 2011 
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9 Comments »Foster Gillett? Please, Not Again
March 31st, 2011 Journo Bob Margolis tweeted yesterday: Can we not all recognize that the Raikkonen to NASCAR story with Frat Boy Gillett is an April Fool’s joke? If only it was. Unfortunately, NASCAR confirmed yesterday Raikkonen had requested and received approval to run the truck race at Charlotte. The word from multiple news organizations is that he’ll run [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #119
March 29th, 2011 T.C. Following our third west coast trip of the season, we stay close to home this week with a trip up to Martinsville. The Nationwide Series teams get the weekend off, but the trucks are back in action. As we get ready to close out March, here’s the 119th edition of ATIW. If you don’t know [...]
Would Edwards Really Leave RFR?
March 28th, 2011 T.C. As rumors have started to float around about where Carl Edwards could end up for 2012 and beyond, we asked our Twitter (@nascarinsider) followers last week if they’d be surprised if he left Roush Fenway Racing. The answers were pretty mixed, but our question seemed to spawn another question from many: where would he go? [...]
California… Wasn’t So Bad
March 27th, 2011 Journo I’ve been a big advocate through the years of removing California’s (or should I say Auto Club’s) second date. I’m just not a fan of the track. So I of course thought it was nothing short of a brilliant move last season when ISC took that second date and gave it to Kansas. As we’ve [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: March 20-26
March 27th, 2011 Journo The Cup and Nationwide Series headed to the left coast this weekend for NASCAR’s first and only stop at Auto Club Speedway. It was a couple of court cases that led the news this week. A Superior Court judge in North Carolina refused to throw out Scott Speed’s lawsuit against Red Bull Racing. Speed is [...]
Paul Menard? Go Figure
March 25th, 2011 Journo Richard Childress Racing entered the 2011 season with some serious momentum. All three of the team’s drivers finished last season in the top-12 in points – Jeff Burton in 12th, Clint Bowyer in 10th and Kevin Harvick in third – and they had five wins in between them. After a disastrous 2009 season, it was a quick [...]
Cali Crucial For Teams Wanting Locked In Spots
March 23rd, 2011 T.C. As we get set to make our lone trip to California this season, we’ve got quite a battle going on at the top of the standings. Currently Kurt Busch owns the driver points lead, but by only a single point over Carl Edwards. But there is another battle raging in the points, and the stakes [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #118
March 22nd, 2011 T.C. We are California dreamin’ this week! Another West Coast trip is ahead for the Cup and Nationwide Series, while the trucks get another weekend off. As your work through your hump day, we’ve got the 118th version of Ask The Insiders Wednesday. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions [...]
So How About Those Points Changes?
March 22nd, 2011 Journo Did you know since the start of the season only one non-Cup regular has won a national series event? The driver? Trevor Bayne. Who would have thought by this point in the season, 11 races in (counting all the races in all three series), the Daytona 500 winner would be the only non-Cup regular to [...]
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