With the biggest free agent of 2011 now off the market, the focus has shifted to what the future holds for Clint Bowyer. Within the last day we’ve seen Reid Spencer speculate on a possible move by Bowyer to Joe Gibbs Racing, and SI’s Tim Tuttle suggest JGR, Michael Waltrip Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, and [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Winners, Winners Everywhere
August 18th, 2011 
Journo I’ve probably written this sentence about a dozen times so far this year, but wow this is shaping up to be a season to remember. After this weekend’s race at Watkins Glen we have 15 different winners and five different first-time winners. Those are extraordinary numbers from a season that still has 14 races left. Consider last [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #139
August 17th, 2011 T.C. Thanks to a Monday Cup race, it’s a short week! The Nationwide haulers are already en route to Montreal, and the Cup and Truck Series are taking on Michigan. And since it’s Wednesday, we’ve got the 139th edition of ATIW. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, [...]
Boris Vs. The Field
August 15th, 2011 T.C. Often times when drivers get one off rides there becomes this serious sense of urgency. They have to do whatever it takes to get a good result now, because they may not get another chance. I believe what we saw today out of Boris Said could somewhat be explained this way. He came in as [...]
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: Boris Said, david ragan, David Reutimann, Greg Biffle, ringer, road course, Watkins Glen 
26 Comments »I’m Racin’ In The Rain! Just Racin’ In The Rain!
August 15th, 2011 Journo Cue Gene Kelly singing a slightly different tune. It took us 22 weeks, but we finally had our first rain out of the season after a close call at Pocono. This of course moves the race to Monday on ESPN – a notably smaller audience and reach. In recent years this wouldn’t have been a [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Cup Series, NASCAR, Nationwide Series, rain, rain tires, Robin Pemberton 22 Comments »The NASCAR Week That Was: August 7-12
August 14th, 2011 Journo NASCAR is going left and right this weekend as the Cup and Nationwide Series head to the Finger Lakes region of New York and Watkins Glen International. Joe Gibbs Racing led the news this week as they announced they would be combining engine efforts beginning in 2012. Toyota Racing Development will build all engines out [...]
Kurt, Kyle and 23 Wins
August 12th, 2011 Journo Among the milestones NASCAR is approaching this year is one that may not be on your radar – 26-year-old Kyle Busch is just one win away from matching his 32-year-old brother’s win record. The two brothers had equally meteoric rises through the NASCAR ranks, beginning at Roush Racing. Kurt in 2000 and Kyle, at age [...]
Better Cup Prospect: Bayne or Stenhouse?
August 10th, 2011 T.C. Now that the future at Roush Fenway is becoming more clear, we can begin to look at the other RFR drivers awaiting their fates. If the #99 seat was vacated, it was assumed that Trevor Bayne or Ricky Stenhouse Jr. would be in line to fill it. But since that now won’t happen, Bayne and [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #138
August 10th, 2011 T.C. It’s backwards week! The Cup and NNS cars are headed to Watkins Glen and that means backward pit stops. But don’t worry, this 138th edition of ATIW is not backward. 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, click on the ”Ask [...]
Carl Edwards Deal Post-Mortem
August 9th, 2011 Journo For months Carl Edwards and the speculation about his 2012 plans have dominated Silly Season coverage (TC wrote about it just last week). It was a daily will he or won’t he. In the last several weeks it looked increasingly likely Edwards would make the jump to Joe Gibbs Racing – some were reporting very [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Carl Edwards, Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR, roush fenway 4 Comments »