As I write this it’s Monday and there still hasn’t been a Cup race, but that’s OK because I’m thinking about the trucks, Eastern North Carolina and next season. ESPN first reported last week that Rockingham is poised to host the Camping World Truck Series in 2012 – its first NASCAR national touring series event [...]
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Rockingham?! Sounds Good To Me
September 6th, 2011 
Journo 
Posted in The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: charlotte, ISC, NASCAR, North Carolina, Rockingham, SMI, track 
5 Comments »Fastenal’s Move To Cup Is Good And Bad
September 1st, 2011 T.C. With Carl Edwards locked up for the foreseeable future at Roush Fenway Racing, we found out today that Fastenal is the first company to sign on as a primary sponsor for Edwards’ #99 Fords. Starting with the 2012 Daytona 500, Fastenal will sponsor 17 races a year for Edwards over the next few years. Edwards’ [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: business, Carl Edwards, Cup, Fastenal, Nationwide Series, NNS, RFR, Roush Fenway Racing, Sponsor 7 Comments »The Danica Mystique
August 26th, 2011 Journo Danica Patrick officially announced Thursday she would make a full-time move to NASCAR beginning in 2012. The move puts her in a Nationwide Series car for JR Motorsports for the whole of the season and select Cup races with Stewart Haas. She’ll She may make her Cup debut at next year’s Daytona 500. The announcement ended years [...]
The Future At Richard Childress Racing
August 23rd, 2011 Journo Richard Childress Racing has, at least in recent history, been a team that cultivated talent and took chances on drivers. Clint Bowyer was plucked from relative obscurity and Kevin Harvick was given a shot after two mediocre Truck seasons with Spears and Liberty Racing. 21 Cup wins later, Richard Childress has proven himself very capable [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Austin Dillon, john wes townley, NASCAR, nationwide, tim george, Truck Series, Ty Dillon 8 Comments »Carl Edwards Deal Post-Mortem
August 9th, 2011 Journo For months Carl Edwards and the speculation about his 2012 plans have dominated Silly Season coverage (TC wrote about it just last week). It was a daily will he or won’t he. In the last several weeks it looked increasingly likely Edwards would make the jump to Joe Gibbs Racing – some were reporting very [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Carl Edwards, Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR, roush fenway 4 Comments »Is NAPA On The Move?
August 4th, 2011 T.C. Now that we know Carl Edwards is returning to Roush Fenway Racing next season, expect the rest of the Silly Season dominoes to start falling quickly. But even though the Edwards drama is over, there is an aspect of the rumored move by Edwards to Joe Gibbs Racing that seems to have been overlooked by [...]
Gibbs’ Reliability Issue
August 4th, 2011 Journo Joe Gibbs Racing didn’t have a particularly good weekend in Indianapolis. The teams finished 10th, 25th and 27th. Adding to the weekend woes was what has become a very common problem for JGR – an expired engine; this time for Denny Hamlin. This ongoing issue comes as rumors about the future of JGR’s engine program [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Dave Rogers, Denny Hamlin, Engine, jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Mark Cronquist, Toyota 8 Comments »Welcome Back Allen Bestwick
July 22nd, 2011 T.C. *For whatever reason the comment section accidentally got closed on this post. It’s back open now and ready for your comments. We apologize for the error! We don’t do a lot of posts about the TV coverage around here, because we don’t see much of it live and there are some great sites out there [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Allen Bestwick, ESPN, Fox, play by play, TNT, tv 17 Comments »Crown Royal Rumor Brings It All Together
July 13th, 2011 T.C. The Indiana Business Journal reported this week that Crown Royal may be in negotiations with Indianapolis Motor Speedway to become the title sponsor of the Brickyard 400 weekend. According to their report the deal could be the richest title sponsorship in NASCAR at around $1.5 million annually. The multi-year deal could be announced in as [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Erwin Quits As #16 Crew Chief
July 11th, 2011 Journo FoxSports reported earlier today that Greg Erwin, crew chief for Greg Biffle at Roush Fenway Racing was out as crew chief of the #16 car. Erwin’s been replaced by Matt Puccia beginning this weekend at New Hampshire. We’re hearing, despite struggles with performance this year, Erwin actually quit the team. If and when we hear [...]
