Joe Gibbs Racing didn’t have a particularly good weekend in Indianapolis. The teams finished 10th, 25th and 27th. Adding to the weekend woes was what has become a very common problem for JGR – an expired engine; this time for Denny Hamlin. This ongoing issue comes as rumors about the future of JGR’s engine program [...]
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Gibbs’ Reliability Issue
August 4th, 2011 
Journo 
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: Dave Rogers, Denny Hamlin, Engine, jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Mark Cronquist, Toyota 
8 Comments »Two Weeks of Bad Decisions at JGR
April 13th, 2010 Journo 2010 hasn’t been smooth sailing for the Joe Gibbs Racing teams of Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin. Hamlin this weekend showed his recovery from ACL surgery is going to be tough if even just for his own stubbornness; and for the second week in a row Busch was denied a win because of a bad [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Dave Rogers, Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, Mike Ford, Steve Addington 18 Comments »So Kyle, Do You Have Any Regrets?
March 21st, 2010 Journo It’s now been eight races, since Steve Addington gave up the reins of the #18 team to Dave Rogers. In that time, Kyle Busch has not done a whole lot. And while the season is still young, and Busch’s and Roger’s Cup partnership is still relatively new, I have to wonder if Kyle isn’t beginning [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Dave Rogers, jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Penske Racing, Steve Addington 6 Comments »Cheating is a Team Sport
August 18th, 2008 T.C. Here we go again. For those of you that don’t know, after the Nationwide Series race at Michigan on Saturday, the Joe Gibbs Racing Nationwide Series teams were discovered to have put magnets under the accelerators so NASCAR inspectors wouldn’t be able to get an accurate read on horsepower on the chassis dyno. If you’ll remember a [...]
Posted in In the Shop, NASCAR News Tags: Dave Rogers, David Poole, Jason Ratcliff, Joe Gibbs Racing, Nationwide Series, Toyota 22 Comments »