This week NASCAR’s at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia for the annual Drive for Diversity Combine. The event brings together some of motorsports best young female and minority drivers to compete for a small number of spots in NASCAR’s D4D program. This year the class includes 26 drivers from 10 states, Mexico and Puerto Rico. [...]
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NASCAR’s Ongoing Drive For Diversity
October 20th, 2011 
Journo I’m Still A D4D Skeptic
October 22nd, 2009 Journo About this time last year I wrote a post about NASCAR’s diversity. I called it “Strive for Diversity.” You see I’m among those who think there is value in having people of different backgrounds in our sport. We’re all at our best when we judge people for who they are and not what they look [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: D4D, Drive for Diversity, John Story, Max Siegel, NASCAR, Phil Horton 
16 Comments »Don’t Blame Max Siegel
January 19th, 2009 Journo When bad things happen people naturally look for someone to blame. We need someone who we can peg our frustrations on and someone to explain away often complex issues. Right or wrong it does happen. In the case of Dale Earnhardt Inc. this need to blame someone has of late fallen on the shoulders of [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #1
December 10th, 2008 T.C. Welcome to the very first edition of Ask The Insiders Wednesday! Starting with this initial post, we will be answering any and all reader questions every Wednesday until at least Daytona comes around. We will try and answer all questions to the best of our ability. So if you’ve got one, click on the ”Ask [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Ask the Insiders, COT, Daytona 500, Max Siegel, pit crew, salaries, ticket prices 1 Comment »The Not So Good Ol’ Boys Club
June 19th, 2008 Journo After having read through a lot of blogs and forums today I think this needs to be said: NASCAR is a multi-billion dollar company and it is run by highly qualified individuals. This idea that the sport is being run by a group of “good ol’ boys” is categorically wrong. This is not only true of [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: 40 under 40, Jay Frye, Max Siegel, NASCAR, Steve Lauletta No Comments »