As we get set to make our lone trip to California this season, we’ve got quite a battle going on at the top of the standings. Currently Kurt Busch owns the driver points lead, but by only a single point over Carl Edwards. But there is another battle raging in the points, and the stakes [...]
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Cali Crucial For Teams Wanting Locked In Spots
March 23rd, 2011 
T.C. 2010 TNI Rumor Scorecard
January 2nd, 2011 T.C. At the beginning of the last two years since we opened TNI, we’ve done a rumor scorecard for the previous season. (See the ’08 and ’09 scorecards here and here.) With 2010 now officially behind us, I figured it was time to grade ourselves and our reporting for the year. Before I do though, let [...]
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5 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #90
August 31st, 2010 T.C. Is this week dragging by? Don’t worry, a holiday weekend is approaching, and with it comes Truck Series action at Kentucky, and NNS and Cup racing at Atlanta! While we wait for it to get here, we’ve got the 90th edition of ATIW for you. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #88
August 17th, 2010 T.C. With big announcements flying this week, the teams are getting geared up to head for Bristol for a little short track Saturday night action. Don’t forget, the Truck Series races tonight at the ”World’s Fastest Half Mile.” If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So if you’ve [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Casey Mears, Chicago, commercials, contingency, David Reutimann, Elliott Sadler, Ganassi, Germain Racing, HANS, helmet, hendrick motorsports, intake, Kasey Kahne, Marcos Ambrose, Max Papis, payouts, PJ Jones, Pocono, road course, robby gordon, safety, sponsorship, Target, TRD 5 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 »Front Row and Robby Gordon Battle at the Bottom
May 14th, 2010 Journo As Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick battle for the points lead and the Gibbs cars make their performance surge, a story few have been talking about is the race at the other end of the point standings – that is the race to stay in the top 35 in the owner standings. For most of [...]
Ask The Insiders Wednesday #72
April 27th, 2010 T.C. This week, we go from the high banks of Talladega to a Saturday night short track shootout in Richmond. The Nationwide cars will kick the racing weekend off on Friday night at RIR, while the Truck Series heads west to Kansas for a rare Sunday race. While we wait for the weekend to arrive, here’s [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: colin braun, David Reutimann, debris, erik darnell, impound races, Jon Wood, Justin Allgaier, Kurt Busch, lugnuts, Matt Kenseth, michael waltrip racing, penalties, Pennzoil, Penske Racing, Ricky Rudd, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., robby gordon, Roush Fenway Racing, talladega, transporters 11 Comments »Another New Crew Chief For Robby Gordon?
March 15th, 2010 Journo Just less than a month after NASCAR veteran Larry Carter joined Robby Gordon Motorsports as a “consultant” we are hearing he has been named crew chief of the #7 team. Carter would take over the spot from Iain Watt who has been in the position since January. Gordon and his team have struggled this season, [...]
Bristol Last Race For 2009 Locked In Drivers
March 14th, 2010 T.C. When the Cup Series heads to Bristol this weekend, it marks the fifth race on the 2010 schedule. It will be the final race that the top 35 in the owners standings from 2009 will have a guaranteed starting spot. The following weekend at Martinsville, the 2010 owners points will decide who is in and who is [...]
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 »