It’s an off weekend for both the Nationwide and Cup cars, but don’t forget the Truck Series takes to Darlington on Saturday night. While you work through another week, here is the 116th version of ATIW. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So if you’ve [...]
Archive for March, 2011
The Power of Great Storylines
March 7th, 2011 
Journo The top-ten in Sunday’s Cup race was a diverse group. The drivers came from nine different teams, three different countries, all four manufacturers, and they ranged in age from 27 to 40. And your winner? Well, he was doing backflips. On Saturday, it was an old face in victory lane and a history making moment [...]
Three Races In, Pit Stops Still Evolving
March 7th, 2011 T.C. So far this season, we’ve seen everything from tire carriers becoming catch can guys, to second gas men, and tire changers and jackmen hanging tires. This new fueling system has the teams trying absolutely anything to figure out a way to make pit stops faster. At this point however, the only thing the teams are really sure [...]
Posted in Over The Wall 
Tags: dry break, fueling, gas can, gas man, Greg Biffle, las vegas, pit crew, pit stop, schultz 
2 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: Feb. 27 – March 5
March 5th, 2011 Journo Robby Gordon and Kevin Conway led the headlines this week after they were involved in an altercation following qualifying Friday evening. Neither driver was willing to talk about the incident on Saturday, but Gordon was placed on probation and Conway said he had filed a police report regarding the incident. In other news, 69-year-old Morgan [...]
This Is Supposed To Be Fun People
March 3rd, 2011 T.C. I think sometimes it can be easy for those of us who work in and around the sport to lose a little perspective. We get caught up in the daily BS, and we forget what it is exactly that we do. We aren’t curing cancer, or fighting crime, or making laws. Our job is to travel [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #115
March 2nd, 2011 T.C. And now back to regularly scheduled programming. In case you weren’t aware, we pushed back this post to allow for Wednesday’s post by Journo regarding “ClapGate.” We felt it was necessary to run that post yesterday so as to keep it current (and it’s our site, so we can do whatever we want). Now, let’s jump into [...]
Hey, Don’t Clap In The Press Box
March 2nd, 2011 Journo “Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility.” Take that in and think about it. Now do the same with this: “Abide by the same high standards to which (you) hold others.” Both of those were pulled from the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics. It’s the general rules/guidelines [...]
