Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? If the answer’s yes, did you try telling the officer, ‘that wasn’t my intent’? Or maybe you were just a MPH or two over the limit, did you try telling him, ‘I wasn’t speeding that much’? When he got done laughing at you, did he still write you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Carl Long’
Gibbs Ultimately Owns This Penalty
April 25th, 2013 
Journo 
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: appeals panel, Carl Long, Engine, Jason Ratliff, Joe Gibbs Racing, Matt Kenseth, NASCAR, penalty, Toyota 
7 Comments »See, NASCAR Doesn’t Just Penalize The Little Guys
September 22nd, 2010 T.C. When NASCAR announced today that they were dropping the hammer on Clint Bowyer and his team for violations following his win at Loudon, they showed the teams and fans that nobody is above the law. Big team, small team, in the Chase, or just trying to qualify, the rules apply to everyone. Both myself and [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: body, Carl Long, Clint Bowyer, haters, Loudon, NASCAR, penalty, richard childress racing, rulebook, rules, violation, whitney motorsports 34 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #84
July 20th, 2010 T.C. We are off to the Circle City this week. Friday and Saturday night shows at ORP for the Trucks and NNS cars lead up to Sunday’s Brickyard 400. While we work through another hump day, here’s the 84th version of Ask The Insiders. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: brakes, Carl Long, confrontations, Dale Jr, fine, Kyle Busch, ryan truex, Trevor Bayne, Triad Racing Technologies, TRT 8 Comments »UPDATED: Breaking News: Front Row Facing Possible Penalties Over Tire Issue
June 8th, 2010 T.C. After yesterday’s story about Front Row’s possible infraction at Pocono, we are hearing today that the penalty from NASCAR could be the biggest ever handed down. When NASCAR makes the announcement later today or tomorrow, expect the penalty to include a $250,000 fine and 300 driver and owner points for Travis Kvapil and owner Bob [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Bob Jenkins, Carl Long, cheating, Front Row Motorsports, NASCAR, penalty, Pocono, rules, tires, Travis Kvapil 7 Comments »The Best And Worst Of NASCAR In 2009
November 22nd, 2009 Journo For those of you who follow us on Twitter, you know every Monday we do a ‘best and worst’ of the weekend tweet. With the 2009 season now in the bag, we thought it might be fun to bring it over to the blog and ask you to do your best and worst of the [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #44
October 6th, 2009 T.C. We’ve got a short list of questions this week before the Cup and Nationwide Series head to California. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be answering any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So if you’ve got one, click on the ”Ask the Insiders” tab at the [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: aggressive driving, Brad Keselowski, Carl Long, Darlington, Goodyear, pit stops, tires 4 Comments »In NASCAR, Perception Isn’t Always Reality
June 12th, 2009 T.C. People. Just like any other sport on this planet, the basis of NASCAR is the people involved. The only real difference between NASCAR and other sports being the means in which the competition happens. In one, it’s guys chasing around a while ball trying to hit it the fewest times possible. In another it’s about putting a frozen [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Carl Long, Crew Chief, crew member, Driver, Jeremy Mayfield, NASCAR, people, perception, reality 21 Comments »Carl Long Did The Crime. Now He Needs To Serve The Time
June 3rd, 2009 Journo *DISCLAIMER: We ask you beforehand to fully read the post before responding. We encourage good discussion and well thought out opinions. What we are not going to put up with is name calling and personal attacks. If we see any of that happening we will delete the comment.* On Tuesday the National Stock Car Racing [...]
NASCAR Lowers The Boom On Carl Long, And Rightly So
May 20th, 2009 T.C. Really Carl Long? Too many cubic inches? At what point did you really think that was a good idea? There is “working in the gray areas,” and then there is cheating. What Long did was about as blatant as cheating gets. In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, Carl Long was suspended for [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: All Star Showdown, Carl Long, cheating, cubic inches, fine, infraction, NASCAR, penalize, penalty, rules 75 Comments »