NASCAR headed to the land of open wheel racing this weekend for the Brickyard 400. It was Travis Pastrana who led the news this week after he broke his right foot and ankle in a motorcycle wreck games. The accident delayed Pastrana’s much anticipated NASCAR Nationwide Series debut this weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway Park. [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Is There A Truck Series Championship Curse?
July 29th, 2011 
Journo I started to think about this post a few weeks ago. At the time, Germain Racing, for the second season in a row, was threatening to shut down Todd Bodine’s #30 team for a lack of sponsorship. It was stunning to think the reigning series championship was about to be parked for a lack of [...]
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: Camping World Truck Series, Craftsman Truck Series, Germain Racing, Jim Smith, Johnny Benson, Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports, NASCAR, Randy Moss Motorsports, Red Horse Racing, ron hornaday, Ted Musgrave, todd bodine, Tom Deloach, Truck Series, Ultra Motorsports 
4 Comments »Pit Crews Aren’t Always To Blame
July 27th, 2011 T.C. I’ll admit I’m a bit of a lurker. I like to hang around on Twitter, Facebook, and some forums to see what the fans are talking about. It really helps when searching for new topics to write about for TNI. Something I’ve seen a bit recently that I wanted to address has to do with [...]
Posted in Over The Wall Tags: adjustments, Facebook, Fans, pit crew, pit stop, repair, tires, Twitter 4 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #136
July 27th, 2011 T.C. It’s Indy week! The Cup cars are headed to the big track for the Brickyard 400 and the Nationwide and Truck Series take to LORP for their final races. And since it’s Wednesday, we’ve got the 136th version of ATIW. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, [...]
Saturday Night Was Embarrassing
July 26th, 2011 Journo As I heard Pastor Joe Nelms’ invocation on Saturday night, I, like everyone, chuckled at the absolute absurdity of the thing. I wasn’t sure if I was watching a prayer, or a scene from Talladega Nights. As the night wore on and one day has turned into two, the more I’ve thought about it, the [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Racing Observations Tags: invocation, joe nelms, motor racing outreach, NASCAR, nashville, sirius 39 Comments »NASCAR Takes Wins Away?!
July 25th, 2011 T.C. Last weekend at New Hampshire was a big weekend for Ryan Newman. Not only did he pick up his first Cup Series win of the season, but he also took down his third straight Whelen Modified win at the track. Newman won in a car owned and prepared by Earnhardt Ganassi Racing crew chief Kevin [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Bono Manion, modified, NASCAR, new hampshire, penalty, ryan newman, Whelen, win 14 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: July 17-23
July 23rd, 2011 Journo The Cup Series was off this week, but the sport was still rolling. Richard Petty Motorsports announced crew chief Mike Shipplet would be replaced by Greg Erwin. Erwin recently left the #16 car at Roush Fenway Racing. In other news, ESPN announced this week NASCAR TV veteran Allen Bestwick would takeover play-by-play duties for the [...]
Welcome Back Allen Bestwick
July 22nd, 2011 T.C. *For whatever reason the comment section accidentally got closed on this post. It’s back open now and ready for your comments. We apologize for the error! We don’t do a lot of posts about the TV coverage around here, because we don’t see much of it live and there are some great sites out there [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Allen Bestwick, ESPN, Fox, play by play, TNT, tv 17 Comments »Crew Chief Musical Chairs
July 21st, 2011 Journo Just past the halfway point of the season, with just seven races until the Chase begins, several teams have decided now is the prefect time to start making some serious changes on the ground. Roush Fenway Racing announced last week Greg Erwin was being replaced by Matt Puccia as Greg Biffle’s crew chief. The #16 [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #135
July 20th, 2011 T.C. It’s an off week for the Cup Series, but never fear, there is still plenty of NASCAR action on tap for the weekend. The Trucks and Nationwide cars are off to tackle the concrete of Nashville Superspeedway on Friday and Saturday night. While you work through another week, here’s another round of reader questions and [...]
