We’ve still got a ways to go before the Sprint Cup season has ended and we crown our champion, but never fear if you’re looking for a good conclusion to a motorsports season we’ve got three this weekend. The ARCA Re/Max, IndyCar, and Grand-Am seasons all come to an end this weekend; and all three [...]
Posts Tagged ‘IRL’
A Weekend of Championship Races
October 7th, 2009 
Journo Danica Taking Safe Path To NASCAR
September 8th, 2009 T.C. If the rumors are true about Danica Patrick, then her choice to run a partial Nationwide, Truck, and ARCA schedule while still running the complete IRL schedule in 2010 is the safest thing she could do. It leaves her an out if she cannot figure out how to be successful in a stock car, but [...]
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Tags: ARCA, Danica Patrick, IRL, Nationwide Series, Tony Stewart, Truck Series 
35 Comments »Stock Cars Were Not Meant To Race In The Rain
August 31st, 2009 T.C. I’m sorry, they just weren’t. After what happened last year at Montreal, and the debacle that took place on Sunday at the Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve, NASCAR needs to take a serious look at getting rid of racing in the rain. There are some that disagree with me, and believe that not only should the [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve, grand am, IRL, Montreal, Nationwide Series, rain, rain tires, road course 33 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #38
August 25th, 2009 T.C. The Cup Series is off this weekend, but there will be no shortage of racing to watch. The Truck Series takes on Chicago, while the Nationwide cars head north of the border to the Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be answering [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: IndyCar, IRL, NASCAR, Over The Wall, pit stops, sponsors, sticker tires, tires, toolbox 2 Comments »The State of the IRL and IMS
July 22nd, 2009 Journo Much like NASCAR’s own France family, the IRL (and IMS)’s Hulman-George family is a racing dynasty that began two generations ago. Soon after World War II businessman Anton “Tony” Hulman bought the run down Indianapolis Motor Speedway and turned it back into the gem of American motorsports. Hulman’s daughter Mari Hulman George became the matriarch of the family [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Hulman, IMS, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indy Racing League, IRL, Joie Chitwood, Tony George 9 Comments »Why The F1 Coup Would Never Happen In NASCAR
June 25th, 2009 Journo I’ve been watching in anticipation the last few days as the showdown between the Formula One Teams Association and the FIA (Max Mosley) played out. Today we learned FIA President Max Mosley would give in to the teams’ demands to not impose the spending cap and he also agreed not to stand for re-election to [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Bernie Ecclestone, ESPN, F1, FIA, Fox, IRL, ISC, Max Mosley, NASCAR, SMI, Tv contracts, versus 11 Comments »The Sad Demise of American Open Wheel Racing
May 22nd, 2009 Journo On the eve of the biggest motorsports weekend of the year I can’t help but reflect on what Indy Racing once was and could have been. *I know this is the NASCAR Insiders, but I want to talk about this.* I have watched some of the coverage from Indianapolis this year and in my opinion [...]
Why Danica Patrick Is Not Coming To NASCAR
April 22nd, 2009 T.C. It seems as though at a certain point each year, for the past few years anyway, we invariably get into the “will Danica move to NASCAR” debate. In the past she’s been pretty quick to brush the talk aside, but now something has changed. This is a post I’ve been thinking about writing for a [...]
Penske and Verizon’s Brilliant Marketing
February 8th, 2009 Journo The marketing folks at both Verizon and Penske are to be commended for their efforts. When I first saw the paint scheme for David Stremme’s #12, I’ll admit I was skeptical. But after seeing what it looked like during the broadcast I couldn’t help but see how much the car looked like it was sponsored by Verizon despite the absence of [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Daly Planet, IRL, Marlboro, NASCAR, Penske, Sprint, Verizon 16 Comments »Ganassi’s Area 51
January 8th, 2009 Journo Deep in the Pennsylvania mountains lies one of motorsport’s biggest secrets. Built in the 1890s, the Laurel Hill Tunnel was one of a series of tunnels opened to accomodate the South Pennsylvania Railroad. When the railroad never opened the tunnels were abandoned. In the 1940s Laurel Hill Tunnel found new life as part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. In order to alleviate [...]
Posted in NASCAR History, The Business of NASCAR Tags: CGR, Chip Ganassi Racing, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, EGR, IRL, Laurel Hill Tunnel, LHT, Mike Hull, Testing 8 Comments »