We’re just a week into the NASCAR off-season and the changes are coming fast and heavy. Layoffs Around The shoe hasn’t dropped everywhere just yet, but so far Roush Fenway has undertaken a massive layoff that we’ve heard was as many as 125 employees. This included many long-time Roush employees. What’s loyalty worth in this [...]
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A Turbulent Start to the NASCAR Off-Season
November 29th, 2011 
Journo Did Chad Knaus Say What I Think He Said?
May 31st, 2011 Journo fleet·ing ex·ple·tive a non-scripted verbal profanity or obscenity expressed and broadcast during a live television broadcast or radio broadcast. The term appears primarily in discussions of United States broadcasting law. Yep, he did. If you watched the Coca-Cola 600 all the way through Sunday night, you were treated to a little fleeting expletive courtesy of Chad Knaus. As Jimmie Johnson’s engine [...]
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Tags: Chad Knaus, fine, fines, fleeting expletive, Fox, hendrick motorsports, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, sanction, tv 
35 Comments »Suspensions For Speeding? Not In This Sport
May 26th, 2011 Journo Turns out the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t look too kindly on people doing 128MPH in a 45MPH zone. Well, they’ll let you drive away, but they will issue you one heck of a citation. What’s three times the legal limit, right? If you live in the Charlotte area this has been THE story for [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, DUI, DWI, fines, Kyle Busch, Michael Annett, Mooresville, NASCAR, penalties, speeding 23 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #96
October 12th, 2010 T.C. The NASCAR teams have a home game this week, as both the Nationwide and Cup Series will take to Charlotte this weekend. As the teams look forward to sleeping in their own beds this week, we’ve got the 96th round of reader questions and answers. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: 6 man pit crew, Austin track, Auto Club Speedway, drivers, ESPN, fines, fuel can, Garage, Kenny Francis, manufacturer, Owen Kelly, pit road, Robby Gordon Motorsports, shark fin, talent, Turner Motorsports, tv, vintage, wheel 5 Comments »
This Secret Fine Discussion Has Become Ridiculous
I really didn’t want to have to write this post. I figured that everyone was smart enough to really see things clearly and think logically, but I’ve been proven horribly wrong. After Jenna Fryer’s AP story about NASCAR “secretly” fining drivers that appeared this week, there has been a ton of discussion about the topic. I [...]