Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? If the answer’s yes, did you try telling the officer, ‘that wasn’t my intent’? Or maybe you were just a MPH or two over the limit, did you try telling him, ‘I wasn’t speeding that much’? When he got done laughing at you, did he still write you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Joe Gibbs Racing’
Gibbs Ultimately Owns This Penalty
April 25th, 2013 
Journo 
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: appeals panel, Carl Long, Engine, Jason Ratliff, Joe Gibbs Racing, Matt Kenseth, NASCAR, penalty, Toyota 
7 Comments »BREAKING: Kenseth Out At Roush; To Gibbs
June 26th, 2012 Journo Sources are telling TNI, Roush Fenway executives announced to the organization today that Matt Kenseth would be leaving the team at the end of the season. Despite earlier rumors that Penske would be Kenseth’s destination, all signs indicate Joe Gibbs Racing as the driver’s future home. What that means for the Gibbs teams is not [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Joe Gibbs Racing, Matt Kenseth, Roush Fenway Racing, Silly Season 14 Comments »Continued Performance, Not One Win, Will Save Logano
June 11th, 2012 T.C. Before Pocono, all the talk about Joey Logano was that he may be on his way out of a Cup ride at Joe Gibbs Racing. Following a win from the pole on Sunday, the discussion about Logano is now about how the win saved his ride. But I’m not convinced that is the case. 2012 [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Home Depot, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Pocono, sliced bread 9 Comments »Busch’s Sponsors Exercise Influence
November 15th, 2011 Journo Take note of this past week – it was one of the more interesting ones I think we’ve seen in a long time. Championship hopes dashed. A driver suspended. A championship team owner put in a bad spot. And sponsors very publicly exercising their influence. It was a strange mix of expectation and surprise. With [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, m&ms, mars, Sponsor, sponsorship 15 Comments »Kyle Got What Kyle Deserved
November 7th, 2011 Journo The responsibility over the past two or three seasons we’ve given back to the drivers came I think with a very clear understanding that there could be a line that got crossed. As annoying as the comments that I’ve made personally in the past about ‘we’ll know it when we see it’ might have been, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, penalty, RCR, Richard Childress, Ron Hornday Jr, suspension 35 Comments »Now That Would Be Sweet Payback
October 7th, 2011 Journo As I watched Kurt Busch cross the finish line first last weekend, all I could think about was one thing, wouldn’t it be sweet payback if he won the championship? Busch of course left Roush Racing at the end of 2005, just a year after winning the championship, under very bad circumstances. Remember that traffic [...]
Stick A Fork In Denny…
October 3rd, 2011 T.C. 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 [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Championship, Chase, Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing, Mike Ford 8 Comments »Kurt, Kyle and 23 Wins
August 12th, 2011 Journo Among the milestones NASCAR is approaching this year is one that may not be on your radar – 26-year-old Kyle Busch is just one win away from matching his 32-year-old brother’s win record. The two brothers had equally meteoric rises through the NASCAR ranks, beginning at Roush Racing. Kurt in 2000 and Kyle, at age [...]
Carl Edwards Deal Post-Mortem
August 9th, 2011 Journo For months Carl Edwards and the speculation about his 2012 plans have dominated Silly Season coverage (TC wrote about it just last week). It was a daily will he or won’t he. In the last several weeks it looked increasingly likely Edwards would make the jump to Joe Gibbs Racing – some were reporting very [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Carl Edwards, Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR, roush fenway 4 Comments »Is NAPA On The Move?
August 4th, 2011 T.C. Now that we know Carl Edwards is returning to Roush Fenway Racing next season, expect the rest of the Silly Season dominoes to start falling quickly. But even though the Edwards drama is over, there is an aspect of the rumored move by Edwards to Joe Gibbs Racing that seems to have been overlooked by [...]
