It was announced this week that Cole Whitt will attempt to make his Cup Series debut at Phoenix for Red Bull Racing. The team will enter a third car for Whitt, who will have to qualify on time. If it goes well, expect Red Bull to enter Whitt at Homestead as well. The move would [...]
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Whitt The Heck Is Going On?
November 11th, 2011 
T.C. Another Rough Offseason Ahead For Crew Guys
September 29th, 2011 T.C. The end of the 2011 season is drawing near, and it seems we hear every week about another team that is preparing to lay off employees. The U.S. economy has still not rebounded, and even though some signs are better for NASCAR (like TV ratings), it would appear that we haven’t yet found the bottom. [...]
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Tags: Austin Dillon, Brendan Gaughan, Brian Vickers, cale gale, Clint Bowyer, Cup Series, Eddie Sharp Racing, GEICO, Germain Racing, Kevin Harvick Inc., Mark Martin, Max Papis, michael waltrip racing, Nationwide Series, Red Bull Racing, richard childress racing, Roush Fenway Racing, Rusty Wallace Racing, tim george, todd bodine, Truck Series, Turner Motorsports, WARN Act 
5 Comments »2011 Silly Season In Full Effect
June 28th, 2011 Journo With the announcement last week that Red Bull was ceasing its NASCAR operations at the end of the season, the 2011 Silly Season went into full overdrive. While the number of available rides just potentially got cut by one, the number of unanswered questions increased. Can Red Bull find investors? What will Brian Vickers do [...]
Assessing The Hendrick Crew Chief Swap (So Far)
April 14th, 2011 Journo Seven races into the season and all those questions we got in the off-season are starting to be answered, namely what off-season changes have worked, and in some cases haven’t so far in 2011. One of the biggest changes that came after Homestead last season (and the topic for this particular follow up) was the crew [...]
Martin’s Win Validates Turner Motorsports
March 9th, 2011 T.C. If you thought before the season that Turner Motorsports was just a flash in the pan, or that they wouldn’t be contenders, the first three Nationwide Series races have been a rude awakening. Following Las Vegas, Turner’s full time drivers sit first, third, and fifth in the standings, and don’t appear to be going away any [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: las vegas, Mark Martin, Nationwide Series, Truck Series, Turner Motorsports, win 3 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #87
August 11th, 2010 Journo It’s back to the Irish Hills this week as NASCAR rolls into Michigan International Speedway and inches closer to the start of the Chase. But before we head to Brooklyn (Michigan that is), it’s time to answer your questions! If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right [...]
It’s Been A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Silly Season
August 5th, 2010 T.C. I wonder if we will ever quit referring to driver and sponsor movements as the Silly Season. It was initially called that because it referred to a specific part of the season when all this started happening. Now it seems that it starts in February at Daytona. Sorry, I digress… Has the 2010 Silly Season [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR Tags: 2010, bobby labonte, Brian Vickers, Elliott Sadler, hendrick motorsports, JTG Daugherty Racing, Justin Allgaier, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Marcos Ambrose, Mark Martin, Paul Menard, Red Bull Racing, richard childress racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Sam Hornish, Scott Speed, Shell-Pennzoil, Silly Season 11 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #78
June 9th, 2010 T.C. Nothing like a little drama to make things interesting. After a very interesting finish to the Pocono weekend, the Trucks and Cup cars head to Michigan this week, while the Nationwide cars take to Kentucky Speedway. This week’s 78th edition of ATIW is a full one, so we’ll get to it. If you don’t know [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: coca cola 600, coke 600, contingency, COT, Denny Hamlin, Driver, Indianapolis 500, Indy 500, Mark Martin, North Wilkesboro, owner, pit crew, robby gordon, Rockingham 7 Comments »Slow Down NASCAR
February 12th, 2010 Journo I have to commend NASCAR, they really have been listening to all of the sport’s stakeholders and then taking proactive steps to correct things they have identified as problems. Through individual feedback, town hall meetings, and the fan council, the once infallible sanctioning body is realizing that maybe they are capable of making mistakes. We’re [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Bud Shootout, green white checkered, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, NASCAR, rule change, rules 7 Comments »2009 Predictions Revisited
December 20th, 2009 T.C. Following the 2008 season, Journo and myself wrote a series of posts that covered all the major teams in the Cup Series. We looked at where they had been in 2008 and where they were going in 2009. The posts contained some predictions for the 2009 season, with some being more specific then others. I [...]
Posted in Cup Team Observations Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, bobby labonte, Brian Vickers, Carl Edwards, Casey Mears, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., david ragan, David Reutimann, David Stremme, Denny Hamlin, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, Elliott Sadler, Gillett Evernham Motorsports, Greg Biffle, hendrick motorsports, Jamie McMurray, jeff burton, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin, Martin Truex Jr., Matt Kenseth, Michael Waltrip, michael waltrip racing, Paul Menard, Penske Racing, Reed Sorenson, richard childress racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, robby gordon, Robby Gordon Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, ryan newman, Sam Hornish Jr., Scott Speed, Stewart-Haas Racing, Team Red Bull, Tony Stewart, Travis Kvapil, Yates Racing 3 Comments »