A late race penalty on a restart for what some think was a questionable caution at Richmond set into motion circumstances that likely shifted the outcome of the race Saturday night. Once again, NASCAR’s restart rules claimed a victim – this time, Carl Edwards. Angry after the race, Edwards said NASCAR had repeatedly told his [...]
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The Physics of Carl’s Restart Penalty
April 30th, 2012 
Journo 
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: Building Speed, Carl Edwards, NASCAR, penalty, Richmond, Robin Pemberton 
9 Comments »Two Teams In The Seat We All Strive For
November 17th, 2011 T.C. Do you remember when you were a little kid in your backyard playing whiffle ball with your buddies? You always pretended it was the bottom of the ninth in game seven of the World Series. There were two outs, the bases were loaded, and your team was down three runs. You strode to the plate [...]
Posted in In the Shop, Over The Wall Tags: Carl Edwards, Championship, Crew Chief, Cup Series, homestead, mechanic, pit crew, team, Tony Stewart 9 Comments »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 »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 »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 »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 [...]
I Don’t Want To Talk About Carl Edwards…
August 1st, 2011 T.C. …but since the story won’t go away until Edwards finally announces a decision, I want to put a few things out there. First, all we really have at this point is a lot of rumors. Talk and speculation has been running rampant through the garage all season about Edwards’ future, and none of it seems [...]
2011 Silly Season In Full Effect
June 28th, 2011 Journo With the announcement last week that Red Bull was ceasing its NASCAR operations at the end of the season, the 2011 Silly Season went into full overdrive. While the number of available rides just potentially got cut by one, the number of unanswered questions increased. Can Red Bull find investors? What will Brian Vickers do [...]
