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Fallout from the Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski payback incident at Atlanta led the news this week. After speculation about Edwards’ punishment, NASCAR President Mike Helton announced on Tuesday, Edwards would be placed on probation for three races. He emphasized the sanctioning body’s concern with the car getting airborne at a track like Atlanta. In other [...]

The Charlotte Observer’s Jim Utter reported earlier in the week about the potential exit of Miccosukee from NASCAR. The Florida Indian Tribe was set to sponsor a truck for Kyle Busch Motorsports and Nationwide and Cup Series teams for Phoenix Racing.
For Kyle Busch Motorsports, the potential move by the tribe would certainly cause headaches. In [...]

It seems that everywhere you go in Mooresville, or really the entire Charlotte area for that matter, you always seem to run into somebody who works in racing.  Those of you who read this blog that live in and around Charlotte will know what I’m talking about.  And maybe it is something that shouldn’t surprise me [...]

Merry Christmas TNI readers! I hope your Christmas day is fantastic (and if you celebrate another holiday I hope it is/was great too!).
Since it’s Christmas and we’re all relaxing and enjoying our time off, we figured it would be good to keep it light around here. While it might be a little late to get [...]

Between Danica, Kyle and Kevin, this week could be called the week of the announcement. On Monday, Danica Patrick along with JR Motorsports GM Kelley Earnhardt and GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons announced Patrick’s foray into NASCAR beginning next season. The announcement did not include a schedule of Patrick’s races. On Friday Kyle Busch announcement his [...]

As promised here is an update of the points under the old points system. If you didn’t catch it, I wrote a post the other day about it.
1. #48 Jimmie Johnson, 5156
2. #24-Jeff Gordon, 5090, -66
3. #14-Tony Stewart, 5085, -71
4. #11-Denny Hamlin, 4806, -350
5. #5-Mark Martin, 4762, -394
6. #2-Kurt Busch, 4758, -398
7. #16-Greg Biffle, 4541, [...]

I know it’s Monday and you’re probably expecting a post, sorry, but we wanted to ask you, our loyal readers, some questions. Don’t worry it’s nothing too difficult, we just want to know how we’re doing, and what you like and don’t like about the blog and our topics.
Feel free to answer any and all [...]

As NASCAR has struggled through the last year, and teams have closed up shop leaving drivers without a ride, I had to ask myself why more out of work drivers  didn’t make the jump to a lower series?
At the risk of alienating people, I’ll refrain from specifically naming any drivers I think could stand to [...]

…nothing other than they’re all in my weekend notes (lame I know).
Saturday was a good day to be 19. Well a good day to be 19 if you happened to drive in the Nationwide Series.
In his first career NASCAR appearance on Saturday, 19-year-old Parker Kligerman scored his first career pole. Then 19-year-old Joey Logano went [...]

Over the last few weeks the emails and comments from our readers have taken a decidedly negative turn.  We’ve certainly had more comments and emails  then ever before, which is great, it just seems that many of you are very, very angry about NASCAR right now.  And I don’t know if we bring it on [...]