Since coming to the Cup Series in 2005, Furniture Row Racing has grown into its current form gradually. Over the first several years of their existence, poor finishes and DNQs were the norm. But owner Barney Visser stayed the course, and with Regan Smith at the wheel, the team has gained respectability. Their first taste [...]
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Furniture Row Continues To Progress
May 29th, 2012 
T.C. 
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: barney visser, denver, Furniture Row Racing, Kurt Busch, Mark McArdle, Regan Smith 
6 Comments »Kyle Busch Motorsports Sputtering Out Of The Gate
April 5th, 2012 T.C. Five races into the 2012 Nationwide Series schedule, Kyle Busch is experiencing just how difficult it can be to own a team in the upper tier of NASCAR. A combination of mistakes, bad luck, and slow race cars has added up to an average finish of 17.4 and just two lead lap finishes. His team’s [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports, Mike Beam, Nationwide Series 13 Comments »A Turbulent Start to the NASCAR Off-Season
November 29th, 2011 Journo 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Chad Knaus, fine, fines, fleeting expletive, Fox, hendrick motorsports, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, sanction, tv 35 Comments »Easily Offended? Don’t Listen to Radio Traffic
May 6th, 2011 Journo Drivers should be professional enough to police themselves and refrain from using such offensive language, even in the heat of battle. They should be conscious of the fact that fans and others are listening and choose their words and rants more carefully. What!? Yearly we end up in this ridiculous debate about the language used [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Kurt Busch, Martin Truex Jr., NASCAR, radio, scanner 18 Comments »Will This Season’s Star Please Stand Up
April 19th, 2011 Journo Coming off of a season that saw a pot hole mar the opening race and then rain and other issues combine to make for a less than stellar start, 2011 has been nothing short of a breath of fresh air in the Cup Series. And consider this, with Jimmie Johnson’s come from behind win Sunday [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: average finish, Carl Edwards, Championship, Chase, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, NASCAR, points, wins 7 Comments »Finally A Race With the Chase?
October 5th, 2010 Journo I know Jimmie is leading the points. And I’m not going to say he doesn’t have a chance of winning a fifth championship – he absolutely does. The points race though is the closest we’ve seen after three races in the history of the Chase, and I think Jimmie has the toughest competition (in terms [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Championship, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Denny Hamlin, Gibbs, Hendrick, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Penske, RCR, Tony Stewart 7 Comments »Why The Championship Race Is Wide Open
September 13th, 2010 Journo It’s hard to believe we’re closing in on the final races of the season. In just more than two months we’ll be in Homestead to crown a champion for 2010. In the meantime we’ve got our Chase field set and 10 races to sort out the good from the great. So far this season we’ve [...]
