This week is a sad week for the sport. As has unfortunately become all too routine, we are forced to accept the prospect of decreasing quality NASCAR coverage and analysis. This time it’s the loss of the American City Business Journal owned SceneDaily.com and Rowdy.com. The end for Rowdy came earlier this month with a [...]
Archive for March, 2012
Reversal of (Fine) Fortunes
March 22nd, 2012 
Journo In a very surprising move on Wednesday, the NFL announced harsh penalties against the New Orleans Saints over the now infamous bounty scandal. Coach Sean Payton was suspended without pay for the upcoming season, GM Mickey Loomis was suspended without pay for the first eight games of the season and assistant head coach Joe Vitt [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations 
Tags: appeal, hendrick motorsports, John Middlebrook, NASCAR, NFL, penalties, Saints 
24 Comments »Should Bristol Be Changed?
March 19th, 2012 T.C. In an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, Bruton Smith said he is considering $1,000,000 worth of renovations to Bristol Motor Speedway that would return it to it’s pre-2007 configuration. Smith said the lower than normal attendance at Sunday’s Cup race isn’t the reason why he is considering changes, but that he wanted the [...]
Why Believe The Penalty PR Game?
March 15th, 2012 Journo Next week in a room at NASCAR’s R&D facility in Concord, N.C., retired General Motors executive John Middlebrook will hear the final appeal of Hendrick Motorsports. The crime of course being “c-posts” that, according to NASCAR, did not meet specifications. Soon after, we’ll learn what Middlebrook’s decision is. Given his past, there is a chance [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: appeal, c-post, Chad Knaus, Daytona, John Middlebrook, penalties, Rick Hendrick, u 26 Comments »Allmendinger Off To Slow Start With Penske
March 13th, 2012 T.C. The opening three races of the 2012 season have not exactly been what A.J. Allmendinger and his new Penske team were hoping for. Coming into the year, expectations were certainly higher for the sixth year driver after his off season move to the #22 Dodge. In December, Allmendinger asked for and was granted his release [...]
Whoa, Dodge Has Style
March 11th, 2012 Journo A new day is dawning in the aesthetics of the sport’s highest series. Or at least it looked that way on Sunday. Dodge unveiled it’s new Charger Cup car on Sunday and it looks great (sorry I didn’t include a photo, but check out the unveil video here). A car with bodylines and a distinctive [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: 2013, Charger, COT, dodge, NASCAR, Penske, Ralph Gilles 5 Comments »Cup Hauler Drivers In A Rough Stretch Of Races
March 6th, 2012 T.C. With three of the first five races of the season at west coast race tracks, it was going to be a long couple of weeks to start the season anyway. But the heavily delayed Daytona 500 has made life all the more difficult for those that drive the team haulers in the Cup Series. Many [...]
What’s Next For Dodge?
March 2nd, 2012 Journo In a surprising announcement yesterday, Penske Racing said it would switch manufacturers to Ford at the end of the season. The team left Ford in 2003 and in recent years became the premier organization for Dodge. Together the two had a reasonable amount of success racking up 23 wins (a little less impressive considering 8 [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR Tags: COT, dodge, ford, NASCAR, Penske, Richard Petty Motorsports, Roush, RPM 15 Comments »