Sandbagging (verb): To hold back; what happened Saturday night at the Sprint All-Star race. The collective oxygen this morning is being taken up with discussion about what happened Saturday night. A new format and $1 million on the line led the winner of the race to sandbag his way to the end. NASCAR in its [...]
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New All-Star Format Fell Short
May 21st, 2012 
Journo Long Busy Weekend Ahead For Some Pit Crews
May 18th, 2011 T.C. It’s always nice for the teams when we get to this part of the schedule, because with all three series racing in Charlotte, it means most get to sleep in their own beds. But a crowded weekend schedule, along with a trip to Iowa for the Nationwide cars, means some will have a very busy [...]
Hey, Nice Crowd (Sort Of)
April 11th, 2011 Journo If you were watching the race on TV Saturday night, it looked like Texas Motor Speedway had a really great crowd. In fact, the Speedway reported a crowd of 168,400. That’s nearly one and a half times the capacity of Cowboys Stadium. A heck of crowd – if it stood up to scrutiny. The grandstands [...]
NASCAR, Thanks for Maintaining the Status Quo. Now a Suggestion…
March 10th, 2011 Journo Charlotte Motor Speedway kicked off its season on Wednesday with a press/advertising event for the Sprint All Star race at Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Whiskey River bar in Uptown Charlotte. Speedway President Marcus Smith said during the event no changes would be made to the format (selection or otherwise) before the race in May. I for [...]
Breaking News: Josh Wise To Drive #43 In Charlotte NNS Race
October 6th, 2010 T.C. We’re hearing Josh Wise will be driving the #43 Dodge Challenger under the Baker Curb Racing banner in the Nationwide Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway next week. The deal is supposedly being backed by veteran tire changer D.J. Copp, his company OTWCrew.com, and Ingersoll Rand. Besides backing the deal, Copp will also serve as crew chief for [...]
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No Comments »Loudon Getting ‘Concorded’ By Bruton Smith
June 21st, 2010 Journo Concord (verb) – when a race track/auto dealership magnate threatens a municipality with the removal of a race event, or entire racetrack, in order to get what he wants – refers to what happened to the city of Concord, N.C. Last week Bruton Smith took his fight with the police chief of Loudon, N.H. public. [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #77
June 1st, 2010 T.C. After two weeks at home in Charlotte, teams once again hit the road this week. The Truck Series is in the Lone Star State to take on Texas Motor Speedway, the Nationwide cars make their second trip to Nashville Superspeedway, and the Cup cars are in Pennsylvania to take on the Tricky Triangle of Pocono. Before the weekend arrives, we’ve got [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Biffle, Charlotte Motor Speedway, fuel, gas cans, Goodyear, NASCAR, Prism Motorsports, qualifying, Red Bull Racing, tire 5 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #46
October 20th, 2009 T.C. We’ve got a good batch of questions for you this week, and many from some new names which is great to see! Remember, there are no stupid questions here, and even if we’ve answered a question in the past, we will answer it again. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, [...]
The Tarnished Gem
October 9th, 2008 Journo In 1959 Curtis Turner and O. Bruton Smith set out to seperately construct a large speedway in the Charlotte area. After a lengthy battle, the two agreed to join together to build what is today Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Turner was forced out of the company in 1961 and Smith in 1962. For the next 9 years Turner worked [...]
