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It is a Cup Series off weekend, but there was no shortage of news this week.  After failing a NASCAR drug test earlier in the season, TV analyst and former driver Randy Lajoie was reinstated by NASCAR this week after completing the necessary substance abuse programs.  Regan Smith signed a contract extension with Furniture Row [...]

We had a question in yesterday’s Ask The Insiders Wednesday about what appears to be a growing drug problem in NASCAR, and I wanted to take a little bit more space and expand on my answer to reader Tony.  The question was no doubt spawned by the announcement on Tuesday this week that yet another [...]

Surprisingly, we’ve already reached the mid point of the Cup Series season.  The Truck Series remains off for another week, but both the NNS and Cup cars will head to Daytona for racing under the lights.  The NNS teams are at the beach already getting ready for their race, and the Cup haulers will be [...]

It was an old name that led the news this week. In it’s second major drug related penalty in a year, NASCAR suspended two-time Nationwide Series champion Randy Lajoie after he tested positive for marijuana. Lajoie immediately apologized for what he said was a one-time incident. In other news, Bobby Labonte left TRG Motorsports after [...]

Randy Lajoie made a stupid decision. And he got caught. He quickly admitted to it, and deftly handled the situation. Thankfully everyone seems to be moving on. From the outset, Lajoie took his crisis management skills into overdrive. He skillfully got in front of the story, and was able to effectively shape the message. There [...]

With some of the recent incidents we’ve seen with cheating, namely the Front Row/bleeder valve situation, an interesting dilemma was brought up to me by Journo.  Before I get into it, I just want to say that this is completely hypothetical.  I can’t say I’ve ever actually heard of this happening.  Anyway, back to the [...]

It’s the first off week of the year for NASCAR.  None of the top three series are in action this weekend, but TNI keeps trucking along with another Ask The Insiders Wednesday.  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 [...]

T-minus two weeks until the Daytona 500. Danica Patrick led the news this week as JR Motorsports released her 2010 schedule. Patrick is expected to make her first start at Daytona or California. In other news NASCAR confirmed this week a cut in purse payouts across all three series. The move is intended to save [...]

Amid all of the hub bub from last week’s Media Tour, it was announced that NASCAR was adding the drug policy to it’s rule book for each series.  The 2009 season was the first for a hard and fast policy against substance abuse for NASCAR, and needless to say, it didn’t go so well.  An [...]

After the 2008 season, we decided to look back over the season and see how we did in terms of reporting on rumors and breaking some news.  In the end, we got eight correct, had two pushes, screwed one up, and had three rumors outstanding.  With 2009 behind us, I thought it would be fun to [...]