Do you remember when you were a little kid in your backyard playing whiffle ball with your buddies? You always pretended it was the bottom of the ninth in game seven of the World Series. There were two outs, the bases were loaded, and your team was down three runs. You strode to the plate [...]
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Two Teams In The Seat We All Strive For
November 17th, 2011 
T.C. 
Posted in In the Shop, Over The Wall 
Tags: Carl Edwards, Championship, Crew Chief, Cup Series, homestead, mechanic, pit crew, team, Tony Stewart 
9 Comments »The Calm Before The Storm
December 26th, 2010 T.C. With Christmas now behind us and New Years coming this week, the 2011 season will quickly be up on us. Only eight weeks stand between us and the 2011 Daytona 500. And teams know the clock is ticking. This week between Christmas and the New Year is traditionally an off week for the teams. While some [...]
Posted in In the Shop, Over The Wall Tags: 2011, crew, Daytona, NASCAR, pit crew, season, shop 3 Comments »What Teams Are Up To Right Now
December 6th, 2010 T.C. If there is one thing that is for certain once the season ends, it’s that you won’t find half as much information about the sport to consume. The media/blog/social media coverage of the sport slows way down, which one would expect. Just as an example, over the last few weeks our NASCAR-Media list on Twitter [...]
Posted in In the Shop, The Business of NASCAR Tags: catch can, COT, Cup Series, drivers, Nationwide Series, off-season, pit crew, pit stop, splitter, teams, winter 3 Comments »The Rift Between A & B
May 3rd, 2010 T.C. In any sport, there is no success without chemistry. A team must have it to work cohesively as a unit, towards a common goal. A lack of it can destroy an organization. NASCAR is no different. And one major obstacle in building chemistry within a race team is finding a way to get the two major factions [...]
Posted in In the Shop, Over The Wall Tags: A team, B team, chemistry, engineers, mechanics, pit crew, pit support, race day crew, road crew 15 Comments »A NASCAR Career Isn’t For Everyone
April 5th, 2010 T.C. One of the most frequent questions asked of myself and Journo by readers, is how one can go about getting a job in racing. In email responses and our many posts on the subject, we try to be as helpful as possible, while hopefully keeping people’s expectations realistic. Racing, at the highest levels, is a very [...]
Posted in Getting a Job in NASCAR, In the Shop, Over The Wall Tags: career, employment, job, NASCAR, Patrick Reynolds 9 Comments »Sometimes You’ve Got To Make A Move
February 11th, 2010 T.C. Working in racing is unlike anything I’ve ever done previously. It seems like all the rules that apply to normal jobs and job searching are completely irrelevant. Resumes aren’t as important as your reputation. There are no job boards or websites. Sometimes you can get hired without ever even meeting a crew chief. What your past [...]
Posted in Getting a Job in NASCAR, In the Shop, Over The Wall Tags: decision, employment, job, reputation, team, Tire Changer, turnover 6 Comments »NASCAR Making Progress With Drug Testing
January 24th, 2010 T.C. 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 [...]
Posted in In the Shop, NASCAR News, Over The Wall Tags: banned, Dr. David Black, drug, drug test, drug testing, NASCAR, policy, rule book, substance abuse 11 Comments »And We’re Back!
November 29th, 2009 T.C. After a nice (but brief) vacation, both myself and Journo are returning to action this week. As Journo said last week, we are going to cut down our posting frequency during the off-season to a post for Monday, Ask The Insiders on Wednesday, a post for Friday, and the Saturday links post. If something interesting pops [...]
The Nationwide COT…Looks Pretty Cool
November 2nd, 2009 Journo After years of complaints from fans (and drivers for that matter) over the looks of the Cup Series COT, NASCAR undoubtedly didn’t want a repeat as they developed the Nationwide COT. This weekend we got our first glimpse of all four stickered up Nationwide COT’s. I don’t know how you feel about the cars, but [...]
Posted in In the Shop, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Camaro, challenger, chevrolet, COT, dodge, Impala, Mustang, Nationwide COT, roush fenway, Toyota 9 Comments »Crew Guys Need More Exposure
October 11th, 2009 T.C. This post may end up sounding self serving, but hear me out first. I think it’s time that NASCAR and the media partners start putting more of the spotlight on the faces behind the drivers. If the fans knew some of the people that work in the garage, shop, and on pit road every week, I think it [...]
Posted in In the Shop, Over The Wall, Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: car chief, crew, Crew Chief, crew members, Dennis Terry, DJ Copp, exposure, helmet cam, media, NASCAR, pit crew, tv 18 Comments »