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. [...]
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Loudon Getting ‘Concorded’ By Bruton Smith
June 21st, 2010 
Journo Cool It With The Jimmie Conspiracies
November 12th, 2009 Journo You’re not happy when he’s winning. You’re not happy when he’s finishing 38th, 129 laps down. What do you want out of Jimmie Johnson? We should hash this out though, because he’s not going anywhere for a while. Over on twitter and on message boards across the Internet this week people have been angrily asking [...]
It’s Always Good To Come Home
October 18th, 2009 T.C. In other sports, home games happen just as often as away games. But racing is different. We spend almost the entire season at away games. The sport as a whole only gets two home weekends a year; the 600 weekend in May and the October night race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Both offer a welcome respite from the usual grind of [...]
Posted in NASCAR at the Track, Over The Wall, Racing Observations 
Tags: Bruton Smith, charlotte, coke 600, Concord, Home, Humpy Wheeler, Lowes Motor Speedway, May, Memorial Day, October 
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