I got an email from a reader on Monday pointing out something I hadn’t put much thought into. He wrote asking us to talk about the Toyota engine program and how in five years the teams using Toyota built motors, Michael Waltrip Racing and Red Bull Racing, only had one win not decided by weather [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ginn Racing’
For Red Bull, Performance Issues But No Serious Changes
June 23rd, 2011 
Journo Almirola Capitalizes On Second Chance
August 20th, 2010 T.C. In the current climate of funded drivers and retreating sponsorship dollars, it’s very uncommon for a young driver without his own money to get a second chance. What we are seeing with Aric Almirola though, goes against all of that. JR Motorsports announced on Wednesday that Almirola had signed a multi-year agreement to drive the team’s #88 car [...]
Posted in Driver Development, NASCAR News 
Tags: Aric Almirola, Billy Ballew Motorsports, Camping World Truck Series, dale earnhardt inc, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, Ginn Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing, JR Motorsports, Key Motorsports, Nationwide Series, Phoenix Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Smith-Ganassi Racing 
5 Comments »The Rise and Fall of Ginn Racing
August 13th, 2009 Journo In 1986 real estate developer Edward Robert Ginn III, better known as Bobby Ginn, was quickly making a name for himself, though not for the right reasons. He owned eight of 20 golf courses (among other properties) in Hilton Head Island, S.C. and his company was failing. Failing to the point that employee paychecks were [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Bobby Ginn, dale earnhardt inc, DEI, Ginn Racing, Jay Frye, Joe Nemechek, Kraig Kinser, NASCAR, Sterling Marlin 12 Comments »Don’t Blame Max Siegel
January 19th, 2009 Journo When bad things happen people naturally look for someone to blame. We need someone who we can peg our frustrations on and someone to explain away often complex issues. Right or wrong it does happen. In the case of Dale Earnhardt Inc. this need to blame someone has of late fallen on the shoulders of [...]
$12.8M Isn’t That Much
December 21st, 2008 Journo Ok so $12.8 million is a lot of money. I certainly don’t have anywhere near that kind of money; but for an engine program it really is a pretty fair price. I can’t say I was surprised by the response from the community as the forums came alive and the blogosphere began buzzing. It is [...]
The NASCAR Week That Was: Oct. 5-11
October 11th, 2008 Journo “There’s a fight in the garage!” The news of the scuffle between Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick led the news into Charlotte this weekend. The two reportedly came together after rising tensions following last weekends’ wreck by Edwards. This week also brought news of a new free agent, a sponsor shift and a death in [...]
Deadbeat Owners Hurt the Sport
August 12th, 2008 T.C. This post is one I’ve had on my list of topics to write about for a while, but I’ve debated with Journo about whether to actually write it or not. But after some recent events and some serious consideration, I think its important to discuss it. Recently it was reported by Scene Daily that Mike [...]
The Cost of Doing Business
May 21st, 2008 Journo The days of one car teams, (successful) owner operators and independents are over; NASCAR is expensive and the ever increasing cost of doing business becomes more evident as time goes on. Even in the last couple of seasons we have seen the biggest growth and implosion of a team in recent history, the introduction and implementation of [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: DEI, Ginn Racing, Iowa Speedway, Mansfield Speedway, NASCAR, Sponsor, Yates Racing No Comments »