Heading to Talladega this weekend, we are getting ready to bear witness to a couple of newer phenomenon in NASCAR competition. The first of course is the new style restrictor-plate racing that dominated the day at Daytona in February. The tandem drafting will most likely be the name of the game again on both Saturday [...]
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Should Drivers Be Able To Talk During The Race Via Radio?
April 14th, 2011 
T.C. 
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: communication, Daytona, drafting, Driver, Racing Electronics, Racing Radios, radio, spotter, superspeedway, talladega, tandem 
8 Comments »Harder To Find: Great Crew Chief Or Great Driver?
December 13th, 2010 T.C. There is no question that in order to have success in racing, a team needs to have both a great driver and a great crew chief. We are witnessing one such pair right now with Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus. Apart, they are both good enough that they would probably still have success, but together they are seemingly [...]
Hey Bud, Don’t Lay Down On Me
July 19th, 2010 T.C. By now, I’m sure most of you have heard the audio from Bristol earlier in the season where Lance McGrew keys his mic and tells Dale Jr. to not lay down on him. The team was facing some adversity with track position, and McGrew was afraid Dale Jr. had thrown in the towel for the [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: compete, competitor, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Driver, give up, Lance McGrew, lay down 15 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #78
June 9th, 2010 T.C. Nothing like a little drama to make things interesting. After a very interesting finish to the Pocono weekend, the Trucks and Cup cars head to Michigan this week, while the Nationwide cars take to Kentucky Speedway. This week’s 78th edition of ATIW is a full one, so we’ll get to it. If you don’t know [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: coca cola 600, coke 600, contingency, COT, Denny Hamlin, Driver, Indianapolis 500, Indy 500, Mark Martin, North Wilkesboro, owner, pit crew, robby gordon, Rockingham 7 Comments »Is Jimmie The Driver You Love To Hate?
May 9th, 2010 T.C. As the #48 Lowe’s Chevy was dragged back to the garage area on Saturday night behind the wrecker, a loud roar of approval could be heard all the way to Charlotte. After a “wrong place, wrong time” incident that involved AJ Allmendinger losing his brakes and crashing hard into Jimmie Johnson, a large part of the [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, Chad Knaus, Darlington, Driver, Fans, hate, hated, Jimmie Johnson 21 Comments »No, I Never Wanted To Be A Driver
August 27th, 2009 T.C. Once people figure out what I do for a living (you know, changing tires in big time auto racing), there are always the same usual questions. One that I get asked on a fairly regular basis by friends, acquaintances, and family members is if and when I ever did or will take a shot at being a [...]
Posted in Over The Wall, Racing Observations Tags: career, Driver, NASCAR, pit crew, racing, Tire Changer 2 Comments »Mounting Frustration Evident At RCR
August 17th, 2009 T.C. One of the bigger story lines of the 2009 season has been the downfall of Richard Childress Racing. After putting all three teams into the Chase in 2008, only Clint Bowyer appears to have a shot at a Chase berth for 2009. With only a few races left before the “playoffs” begin, Bowyer is 14th [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: audio, Casey Mears, Chase, Clint Bowyer, Cup Series, Driver, Kevin Harvick, owner, performance, radio, Richard Childress, richard childress racing, rumors 20 Comments »On Track Retaliation: How Much Is Too Much?
August 9th, 2009 T.C. We’ve all seen it happen. From the Friday night local short track race all the way to the Daytona 500. One driver gets wrecked; then he gets mad; then he gets even. But when does one driver retaliating against another driver go too far? I know I’m going to get blasted by the Robby Gordon [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: anger, David Stremme, Driver, Joey Logano, Pocono, retaliation, robby gordon, Watkins Glen, wreck 35 Comments »Young Drivers Trying To Weather Economic Storm
July 20th, 2009 T.C. Recently here at TNI, you’ve seen us profile a few young drivers and some driver development programs. It seems that because of some of the topics dominating the current headlines that the young, upstart drivers often have their stories pushed to the back burner. And it’s these younger guys that need the exposure as they are suffering the most because of the economic downturn. [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #28
June 16th, 2009 T.C. Since the Cup cars will be turning left AND right this week on the road course in Sonoma, I figured we’d take a strange turn of our own here to start out Ask The Insiders Wednesday. The much talked about “guyliner” question kicks off edition #28. If you don’t know what this post is, until further [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Driver, Infineon, journalism, journalists, midway, NASCAR, pit stops, road courses, souvenir trailers, souvenirs, sponsors 4 Comments »