Sorry to not have new content for Thursday, it was a very long day for me and I just didn’t have time to get to TNI. That being said I have found a great post T.C. wrote last year about Bristol (and since the second Bristol race is this weekend, how timely!). So on to [...]
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Ask The Insiders Wednesday #29
June 23rd, 2009 
T.C. As the summer continues to roll along, we have reached the 29th edition of Ask The Insiders Wednesday. These posts continue to gain in popularity every week, and I’ve been told by many of you that ATIW is what you look forward to the most. That’s great to hear, and if you keep sending in [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders, NASCAR History 
Tags: catch can, Chase, computers, F1, Manufacturers, Max Mosley, NASCAR, PSI, start-and-park, tire 
10 Comments »Brad Keselowski and Why Winning At Talladega May Not Be A Good Thing
May 5th, 2009 Journo Let me preface what I am about to write by saying I think Brad Keselowski has a lot of talent and potential. Without a doubt he is positioned to be the “future” of the sport. With Rick Hendrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. behind him he also has an enviable amount of resources. All that being [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: Feb. 15-21
February 22nd, 2009 Journo After months of anxiety and anticipation, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season kicked off. After a sunny and warm week, the clouds and rain rolled into Daytona Beach on Sunday. Ultimately Matt Kenseth won a rain shortened Daytona 500. What followed was a week of controversy, as people discussed the rain delay and the late [...]
Historic NASCAR Tracks
February 3rd, 2009 Journo You may have noticed in the last couple of months a few new pictures added to the website header. They feature two tracks: North Wilkesboro Speedway, and the much lesser known Occoneechee Speedway. TC and I decided in the beginning we would see how long it took for someone to ask before we wrote something about it. So [...]
Meet NASCAR’s Appellate Court
January 14th, 2009 Journo So you’ve spent the entire off-season getting ready for Daytona. When you get there you make it through pre-race inspections, qualify and race. After you win the Great American Race, NASCAR pulls you into the garage for the obligatory post-race inspection. Uh-Oh. NASCAR finds that there were improper weights added to the car and they take away the [...]
Posted in NASCAR History, The Business of NASCAR Tags: cheating, Daytona, Harry Gant, Humpy Wheeler, NASCAR, NSCRC, penalties, Stock Car Racing Commission 5 Comments »Ganassi’s Area 51
January 8th, 2009 Journo Deep in the Pennsylvania mountains lies one of motorsport’s biggest secrets. Built in the 1890s, the Laurel Hill Tunnel was one of a series of tunnels opened to accomodate the South Pennsylvania Railroad. When the railroad never opened the tunnels were abandoned. In the 1940s Laurel Hill Tunnel found new life as part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. In order to alleviate [...]
Posted in NASCAR History, The Business of NASCAR Tags: CGR, Chip Ganassi Racing, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, EGR, IRL, Laurel Hill Tunnel, LHT, Mike Hull, Testing 8 Comments »The G.O.A.T. Showdown at Darlington
January 5th, 2009 Journo Every so often some news organization does a 50 or 25 greatest drivers list. We have not done this (although I have thought about it), but reader Savannah sparked a good idea for how to do this a little differently. She asked: If you could pick a fantasy racing league with 10 drivers from any [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders, NASCAR History Tags: Dale Earnhardt, Junior Johnson, kirk shelmerdine, NASCAR, NASCAR History, Richard Petty 12 Comments »Wood Brothers and Petty in a Predicament of Their Own Making
December 9th, 2008 Journo Wood Brothers and Petty are a big topic of discussion around the sport these days. Much of the talk centers around how sad it would be to lose these two iconic organizations in the wake of one of the worst economic downturns in the last century. I am however not quite as nostalgic. Both of [...]
NASCAR Families
November 30th, 2008 Journo When you think of NASCAR families what names come to mind? I’m guessing Earnhardt, Petty, Waltrip, Labonte etc. These families, and certainly many others, are NASCAR’s royalty. They though are not alone in their contributions to a sport that is full of family tradition. The tradition of fathers and sons (and daughters) following each other into NASCAR is as old [...]
Posted in NASCAR History, The NASCAR Life Tags: Childress, Earnhardt, Ganassi, Gillett Evernham, Hendrick, Hillman, Houston, living in the sport, NASCAR, NASCAR Family, NASCAR Life, Pemberton, Roush, RYR, Yates 1 Comment »