Remember that time Bobby Ginn was part of the Childress ownership group? And Chip Ganassi was a partner in that back marker Nationwide Team? Or how about when Jim Harris become a partial owner up at the now-defunct Randy Moss Motorsports? Yeah, not too memorable, right? Every year around this time the screaming begins about [...]
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Get Rid Of Owners Points Swaps? Not So Fast…
February 3rd, 2012 
Journo 
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: nascar owner points, points, Stewart Haas, Tommy Baldwin Racing 
10 Comments »What Was Your NASCAR Best and Worst from 2011?
November 21st, 2011 Journo It was a wild season that began with 20-year-old Trevor Bayne winning the Daytona 500 and ended with a wild race that made series veteran Tony Stewart the first Cup Series Champion not named Jimmie Johnson since 2005. In the mean time: we saw 19 different winners, including five different first time winners; Kyle Busch [...]
NASCAR Got The Chase They Wanted
November 14th, 2011 T.C. And then there were two. Following Sunday’s Cup Series race at Phoenix, only two drivers, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards, still have a shot at the title. Every other Chaser has been mathematically eliminated. As we get ready for Homestead, we are in for one hell of a battle with the two drivers we do [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, Carl Edwards, Chase, Cup Series, homestead, Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR, phoenix, pit crew, pit road, pit stop, Tony Stewart 10 Comments »The NASCAR Points And Priorities
November 10th, 2011 Journo This past weekend at Texas Tony Stewart notched his fourth win in the Chase – it was an impressive feat considering that prior to the first Chase race in Chicago it had been 32 races since he’d last seen victory lane. Despite the late string of success, Stewart still finds himself second in the championship [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Carl Edwards, Championship, Chase, NASCAR, points, roush fenway, Stewart-Haas Racing, Tony Stewart 13 Comments »Dale Jr.’s Season Has To Be Considered A Success
November 8th, 2011 T.C. I know he hasn’t won yet, and I know he won’t win the championship, but no matter how you slice it, 2011 has been a very solid season for Dale Earnhardt Jr. After struggling mightily in 2010 with Lance McGrew atop the box, Rick Hendrick decided it was time to make a change. For 2011, [...]
The Gloves Came Off At Martinsville
October 31st, 2011 T.C. When the dust finally settled on Sunday, there didn’t appear to be a single car without some damage. Martinsville is known for beating and banging, but what we saw in the Cup race was seriously ramped up. All race long it was every driver for themselves, and it didn’t seem to matter for some who [...]
A Window On The Reality Of NASCAR
October 27th, 2011 Journo Superspeedway racing tends to bring out the worst in everyone and this weekend in Talladega was no different. We had accusations of team orders, then subsequent denials, crew chiefs telling drivers to wreck on purpose, blatant cheating and complaints from everyone on track about the driving. There has been shock and outrage from the NASCAR [...]
Draft With Who Brought You
October 24th, 2011 Journo Ford and Jack Roush made waves this weekend after word seeped out of the camp that the teams were directed to draft exclusively with their manufacturing counterparts. With two Roush Fords in serious contention for the championship it wasn’t a surprising edict – especially not from Jack Roush. At the end of the race we [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Carl Edwards, chevrolet, Daytona, dodge, ford, jack roush, Jeff Gordon, manufacturer, Matt Kenseth, NASCAR, superspeedway, talladega, Toyota, Trevor Bayne 20 Comments »Another Racer Lost Too Soon
October 17th, 2011 T.C. When I woke up on Sunday morning, I was kind of excited to write a post for Monday. Saturday night’s race at Charlotte left us with no shortage of interesting story lines. And with Jimmie Johnson’s tough wreck, we now have what appears to be a three horse race for the championship. But on Sunday [...]
Could Brad K. Really Win This Thing?
October 11th, 2011 T.C. After Sunday’s dominant performance at Kansas, Jimmie Johnson is once again the talk of the Chase. After a rough start to the playoffs, Johnson has rebounded to close within four points of the lead. But right behind Johnson, who sits third in the standings, is Brad Keselowski. Following a third place finish at Kansas, Keselowski [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Brad Keselowski, Championship, Chase, Cup Series, Jimmie Johnson 4 Comments »