Welcome to TNI’s annual look at things to do in Charlotte during All-Star and Coke 600 weeks. If you’re in town, or on your way, below is a list of things for you to do while you’re here. If you know of an event occurring in town not listed please feel free to add it [...]
Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Kurt Busch Is In The 51 For A Reason
May 16th, 2012 
T.C. There was a post yesterday over at SB Nation, written by Jordan Bianchi, that was titled “If I Were A NASCAR Owner, I’d Hire Kurt Busch.” In it, Bianchi makes a case for why a big time owner should hire Kurt Busch, despite his very recent and past problems. His main point is that Busch [...]
NASCAR Team Owner For Senate
April 2nd, 2012 Journo In recent years, politics and NASCAR have played hand-in-hand. Presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush (First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden were at Homestead last season) have come to races and candidates for the office have made it an obligatory stop – Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were at [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, NASCAR News 
Tags: Elaine Marshall, NASCAR, NC State Senate, RAB Racing, Richard Petty, Robby Benton 
2 Comments »NASCAR Weekend Bizarre So Far
February 26th, 2012 Journo Well, as I write this it’s raining in Daytona and we won’t have a start until Monday at noon 7pm - the first time in the 54 year history of the race. As veteran motorsports writer Ed Hinton wrote: “What we long called Big Bill France’s deal with God expired Sunday.” Not exactly what I was looking [...]
Would Qualifying Heat Races Work For NASCAR?
February 14th, 2012 T.C. It’s floating around the web today that IndyCar’s first year race director Beaux Barfield is planning on using qualifying heats to set the field at Iowa this season. The plan, revealed to the Associated Press, is to test the format for possible full time use in 2013. The proposed procedure will include three 30 lap [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: beaux barfield, Daytona 500, heat races, IndyCar, Iowa, NASCAR, qualifying 22 Comments »No, We Aren’t Dead
January 13th, 2012 T.C. We’ve received some concerned tweets, emails, and comments about our whereabouts and I just wanted to drop in and ease your minds. No, we aren’t dead, haven’t been laid off, or been abducted by aliens. We are still deeply entrenched where we’ve always been. But after nearly four straight years of working on the blog [...]
Kyle Got What Kyle Deserved
November 7th, 2011 Journo The responsibility over the past two or three seasons we’ve given back to the drivers came I think with a very clear understanding that there could be a line that got crossed. As annoying as the comments that I’ve made personally in the past about ‘we’ll know it when we see it’ might have been, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, penalty, RCR, Richard Childress, Ron Hornday Jr, suspension 35 Comments »Vintage Insiders: Will This Season’s Star Please Stand Up
October 18th, 2011 Journo *post originally ran on April 19. Coming off of a season that saw a pot hole mar the opening race and then rain and other issues combine to make for a less than stellar start, 2011 has been nothing short of a breath of fresh air in the Cup Series. And consider this, with Jimmie [...]
Vintage Insiders: Rain Delays Aren’t Good For Anyone
September 19th, 2011 Journo *With rain coming down in Joliet, Illinois and the Cup Series race postponed until Monday at noon we thought you might enjoy a Vintage Insiders (March 2010) rain delay post – wrong track… but you get the idea. Have a great (and dry) Monday! – Journo I don’t know what it is about Martinsville, but [...]
Welcome Back Kurt Busch! Then Again…
September 12th, 2011 Journo File this under moments of the absurd. In the midst of setting the field for the Chase and a wild one at Richmond, it was a very angry Kurt Busch who was catching everyone’s attention. Following Saturday night’s race Busch got into a dispute with not one, but two members of the NASCAR press corps [...]
