Just past the halfway point of the season, with just seven races until the Chase begins, several teams have decided now is the prefect time to start making some serious changes on the ground. Roush Fenway Racing announced last week Greg Erwin was being replaced by Matt Puccia as Greg Biffle’s crew chief. The #16 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Brian Pattie’
Crew Chief Musical Chairs
July 21st, 2011 
Journo Pattie, Montoya, EGR In Trouble…Now A Distant Memory
August 10th, 2010 Journo Before I begin, I just really need to get this off my chest…I told you so. For the last week some in the NASCAR media have been trying to turn fleeting anger between Juan Pablo Montoya and Brian Pattie into the feud of the century…the ‘beginning of the end?’ some asked. I think Sunday proved [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: Brian Pattie, CGR, Chip Ganassi, Earnhardt Ganassi, EGR, Juan Pablo Montoya, Target 
6 Comments »Montoya, Pattie Relationship Rocky. Then Again…
August 5th, 2010 Journo Two weeks, two problems and frustrations again boiled over on the radio between Juan Pablo Montoya and his crew chief Brian Pattie. With the four tire stop that cost them the race at the Brickyard still fresh in their minds, Montoya entered the pits for a late race stop at Pocono. As he pulled in [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #86
August 4th, 2010 T.C. Road racing returns this weekend as the Cup and NNS cars head up to Watkins Glen. While they are turning left and right, and doing backwards pit stops, the truck series takes on the Nashville Superspeedway. As we work through another week, here are more reader questions and answers. If you don’t know what this post [...]
2008 TNI Rumor Scorecard
December 28th, 2008 T.C. Since we started this blog in April, we’ve been able to break some news and share some rumors from time to time. As we approach 2009, I thought it might be fun to look back and see what we got right and what we got wrong. Lets take a look… Nationwide COT Pony Car: In [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: Austin Dillon, Bill Davis Racing, Brian Pattie, Chip Ganassi Racing, erik darnell, Fastenal, jack sprague, Jimmy Elledge, Kevin Harvick Inc., michael waltrip racing, Nationwide COT, new year, news, Ricky Carmichael, rumors, scorecard, scott lagasse, Truck Series 2 Comments »Fair Punishment and Kyle Petty
September 29th, 2008 Journo Penalties have been a popular topic around here lately. And why not? They provide good story lines and passions on either side. The source of the controversy this weekend was Juan Pablo Montoya, who after taking the pole at Kansas was penalized for having too much gas pressure in a rear shock. Unlike many around [...]
Breaking News: Elledge Out, Pattie in
May 20th, 2008 T.C. Jayski broke the story earlier today that Jimmy Elledge had been let go as the crew chief for Juan Pablo Montoya and the #42 team at Ganassi. I’ve heard his replacement atop the pit box will be Brian Pattie. Pattie had served as a Nationwide Series crew chief at Ganassi on the #41 car up [...]
Crew Chief Cake Walk
April 18th, 2008 Journo Ganassi is at it again. In a move that mirrors their Busch Series changeup last year, they’re swapping crew chiefs on the cup side. Donny Wingo and Jimmy Elledge will swap drivers as they try to pump life back into struggling teams. Last year Ganassi made a similar swap moving Brian Pattie to the #42 and Brad [...]
