**I know I’m a couple of days late on this, but I wanted to weigh in with a little post-mortem on the deal. It was announced on Monday HendrickCars.com would provide various forms of sponsorship for three teams at the Daytona 500, one at the March race at Bristol and one for July’s Coke Zero [...]
Posts Tagged ‘JR Motorsports’
Well Played Hendrick…
February 16th, 2012 
Journo Brad K. Surging At The Right Time
August 29th, 2011 Journo Two years ago Brad Keselowski, seeing that his opportunities were limited, left his Nationwide ride at JR Motorsports, for a full time Cup ride at Penske Racing. The move was met with mixed reviews. And in his first full season in 2010, Keselowski struggled. The team averaged a 22.4 finish and scored just two top-10s. [...]
The Danica Mystique
August 26th, 2011 Journo Danica Patrick officially announced Thursday she would make a full-time move to NASCAR beginning in 2012. The move puts her in a Nationwide Series car for JR Motorsports for the whole of the season and select Cup races with Stewart Haas. She’ll She may make her Cup debut at next year’s Daytona 500. The announcement ended years [...]
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 »She’s Coming Baaaaaack…
June 16th, 2010 T.C. And by “she,” I mean Danica Patrick. This post serves as your official 10 day hype warning. You’d better enjoy the nice, quiet, normal Nationwide Series coverage this weekend on ESPN, because it will be the calm before the storm. Danica returns to the JR Motorsports #7 on June 26th at New Hampshire. Through the first [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Danica Patrick, hype, indy car, JR Motorsports, media, Nationwide Series, New Hampshire Motor Speedway 15 Comments »Richmond Will Be First Test For Newbie Arpin
April 28th, 2010 T.C. Lost amid the Talladega chaos was the story of JR Motorsports newest driver, Steve Arpin. On Friday, Arpin went out and promptly put his Chevy in the second row during qualifying. Not bad for a kid who’d never driven an NNS car before. Once the race got started, the young Canadian ran as high as second, but was caught [...]
Posted in Driver Development, NASCAR News Tags: Dale Earnhardt Jr., JR Motorsports, Richmond, Steve Arpin, talladega 2 Comments »Wait, JR Motorsports Wants to Run The #7 Full-Time?
March 18th, 2010 Journo I don’t understand JR Motorsports. They spend an awful lot of time complaining about their money situation. Dale Jr. advertised how much the wrecks cost him at Daytona; and they seem to constantly be advertising their struggle to find sponsorship (welcome to the club). And lest you think otherwise their team spokesman is more than [...]
Who’s To Blame For The Plight of JR Motorsports’ Other Driver?
February 9th, 2010 Journo So get this, JR Motorsports has three drivers. I know, it’s almost hard to believe. In all seriousness, this week has got to be the pits for Kelly Bires. He started the month hopeful he’d be making his JR Motorsports debut at Daytona with Dale Earnhardt Jr., only to find out he was being booted [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, Daytona, Fastenal, JR Motorsports, Kelly Bires, Roush 16 Comments »Kudos To Danica, But I’m Not Sold Yet
February 7th, 2010 T.C. As the Danica Patrick bandwagon steams toward the Daytona Nationwide Series race next weekend, don’t worry about saving me a seat just yet. Finishing sixth in her first ever stock car event is commendable, but I think it’s a bit early to crown her the next big thing. In case you missed it, Patrick recovered [...]
2009 TNI Rumor Scorecard
January 17th, 2010 T.C. After the 2008 season, we decided to look back over the season and see how we did in terms of reporting on rumors and breaking some news. In the end, we got eight correct, had two pushes, screwed one up, and had three rumors outstanding. With 2009 behind us, I thought it would be fun to [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Baker Curb Racing, breaking news, Brian Ickler, drug testing, Eric Phillips, Fastenal, Greg Biffle, john wes townley, Johnny Benson, JR Motorsports, Kevin Harvick Inc., Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports, Michael McDowell, Parker Kligerman, Randy Moss Motorsports, RCR, Rick Ren, rule changes, rumors, Silly Season, Trail Motorsport, Truck Series, Wyler Racing 2 Comments »