Before Daytona, I wrote a blog post with some random thoughts entering the season. In it, I made predictions about which drivers I thought would win each championship. I said Ron Hornaday would take the Truck title, Elliott Sadler would be your Nationwide champ, and Denny Hamlin would break through and win the Cup. Of [...]
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Stick A Fork In Denny…
October 3rd, 2011 
T.C. 
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: Championship, Chase, Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing, Mike Ford 
8 Comments »Gibbs’ Reliability Issue
August 4th, 2011 Journo 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 [...]
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 »Random Final NASCAR Thoughts
February 6th, 2011 T.C. I didn’t have one idea that I wanted to focus on with my last blog post before the 2011 season gets under way this week, so instead I’ve got a bunch of mini topics to touch on. Feel free to comment on any or all of them. New Points System I’ve been asked by a [...]
So Where Does NASCAR Go From Here?
November 22nd, 2010 Journo With all the hype leading into this final race we certainly had an exciting finish. Who wasn’t on edge after Denny Hamlin spun, Jimmie Johnson’s crew (continually) screwed up, and Kevin Harvick got caught speeding on pit road? I was on the edge of my seat until the final laps. And so after 36 races [...]
Alright, Who Ya Got?
November 15th, 2010 T.C. And then there was one. Heading into Homestead this weekend for the final race of the 2010 season, the championship race is still wide open. After Phoenix, Denny Hamlin now leads Jimmie Johnson by a scant 15 points, and Kevin Harvick by 46. The race to determine the champion could literally come down to the last lap. At [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: 2010, Championship, Chase, Cup Series, Denny Hamlin, homestead, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, phoenix 12 Comments »The Interesting NASCAR Points Dichotomy
November 5th, 2010 Journo As the Cup Series enters its final three race stretch, NASCAR finally has the championship race the Chase promised (a familiar refrain I know). With just 38 points separating first from third, this is still a wide open fight. Look to the two lower series though and there is a very different story. For all [...]
Talladega Answers No Questions
October 31st, 2010 T.C. After all the talk leading up to this weekend about Talladega being a wild card race (yes, I’m guilty too), it turned out to be quite the opposite. Instead of being a track where championship hopefuls have their chances dashed away with one wrong move and “the big one,” all we’ve come out the other [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Championship, Chase, Denny Hamlin, homestead, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, phoenix, talladega, Texas, wild card 7 Comments »I Like That Talladega Is A Wild Card
October 28th, 2010 T.C. If there is one thing we’ve heard about this weekend’s race at Talladega, it’s that it will be unpredictable. The COT combined with the restrictor plate and the current rules package means the cars will run around the 2.66 mile superspeedway in tight packs. And tight packs often mean big wrecks. What I don’t really [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Chase, COT, Daytona, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, restrictor plate, Talladega Superspeedway 5 Comments »Finally A Race With the Chase?
October 5th, 2010 Journo I know Jimmie is leading the points. And I’m not going to say he doesn’t have a chance of winning a fifth championship – he absolutely does. The points race though is the closest we’ve seen after three races in the history of the Chase, and I think Jimmie has the toughest competition (in terms [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Championship, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Denny Hamlin, Gibbs, Hendrick, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Penske, RCR, Tony Stewart 7 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #94
September 28th, 2010 T.C. Two Chase races down, eight to go. While the Truck Series is off this weekend, the Cup and NNS cars head west to Kansas. While we work through another week, here is the 94th round of reader questions and answers. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So [...]
