Cue Gene Kelly singing a slightly different tune. It took us 22 weeks, but we finally had our first rain out of the season after a close call at Pocono. This of course moves the race to Monday on ESPN – a notably smaller audience and reach. In recent years this wouldn’t have been a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rain’
I’m Racin’ In The Rain! Just Racin’ In The Rain!
August 15th, 2011 
Journo 
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: Cup Series, NASCAR, Nationwide Series, rain, rain tires, Robin Pemberton 
22 Comments »Don’t Change A Thing Martinsville…Except Your Date
March 30th, 2010 Journo What a race we had today! It had everything you could possibly want. There was beating and banging, flared tempers, dramatic events, wild strategy, three wide racing (at Martinsville!), no wing, double file restarts, a race that didn’t end under caution and Jimmie Johnson wasn’t in victory lane (though this was a negative for some [...]
Rain Delays Aren’t Good For Anyone
March 28th, 2010 T.C. I don’t know what it is about Martinsville, but I feel like it rains every time the NASCAR train stops in town. Some level of racing always happens, but it seems that it’s very rare for the both the Trucks and Cup cars to get the whole weekend in without incident. Now, we are heading [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Brian Neudorff, delay, Fans, Martinsville Speedway, postpone, rain, teams, tracks, tv, weather 5 Comments »Stock Cars Were Not Meant To Race In The Rain
August 31st, 2009 T.C. I’m sorry, they just weren’t. After what happened last year at Montreal, and the debacle that took place on Sunday at the Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve, NASCAR needs to take a serious look at getting rid of racing in the rain. There are some that disagree with me, and believe that not only should the [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve, grand am, IRL, Montreal, Nationwide Series, rain, rain tires, road course 33 Comments »Do Strategy Wins Mean Less To You?
July 1st, 2009 T.C. So unless you live under a rock (which I’m guessing you don’t, because you are reading this blog post), you know that Joey Logano picked up his first Cup Series win last Sunday at New Hampshire. The #20 Toyota was certainly not the best car and Logano actually got two lucky dogs during the race [...]
Posted in NASCAR News Tags: Greg Zipadelli, Joey Logano, new hampshire, rain, strategy, win 24 Comments »