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 [...]
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A Turbulent Start to the NASCAR Off-Season
November 29th, 2011 
Journo The NASCAR Points And Priorities
November 10th, 2011 Journo This past weekend at Texas Tony Stewart notched his fourth win in the Chase – it was an impressive feat considering that prior to the first Chase race in Chicago it had been 32 races since he’d last seen victory lane. Despite the late string of success, Stewart still finds himself second in the championship [...]
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Tags: Carl Edwards, Championship, Chase, NASCAR, points, roush fenway, Stewart-Haas Racing, Tony Stewart 
13 Comments »A Window On The Reality Of NASCAR
October 27th, 2011 Journo Superspeedway racing tends to bring out the worst in everyone and this weekend in Talladega was no different. We had accusations of team orders, then subsequent denials, crew chiefs telling drivers to wreck on purpose, blatant cheating and complaints from everyone on track about the driving. There has been shock and outrage from the NASCAR [...]
Crew Chief Swaps… By The Numbers
September 26th, 2011 Journo The only thing as sure as the next race is that there will be flux and change during the NASCAR season. And this year hasn’t been any different. This summer we saw crew chief shifts at some of the sport’s top tier teams – I even wrote about it here. From Earnhardt Ganassi Racing to [...]
Carl Edwards Deal Post-Mortem
August 9th, 2011 Journo For months Carl Edwards and the speculation about his 2012 plans have dominated Silly Season coverage (TC wrote about it just last week). It was a daily will he or won’t he. In the last several weeks it looked increasingly likely Edwards would make the jump to Joe Gibbs Racing – some were reporting very [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Carl Edwards, Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR, roush fenway 4 Comments »David Ragan Cautiously Optimistic. But Should He Be?
July 7th, 2011 Journo David Ragan finally notched his first Cup Series win this past weekend at Daytona. It was a long road for the 25-year-old driver after four and half seasons in the sport’s top series. Ragan’s meteoric rise at Roush Fenway started with the old “Gong Show” (then called Roush Racing: Driver X for Discovery Channel) in [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: david ragan, jack roush, NASCAR, roush fenway, Silly Season, Sponsor, UPS 6 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 [...]
Roush Running on All Cylinders
May 17th, 2011 Journo Remember that time Roush went 31 races without a win? Yeah I don’t really either. With memories of 2009 slowly fading away, Roush is proving, with this season and last, that it’s still very much a team on top. The team currently has two of four cars inside the Chase and one knocking at the door, [...]
NASCAR Admission Refreshing
May 3rd, 2011 Journo With all eyes focused on the Montoya/Newman feud and Trevor Bayne’s health this weekend, you may have missed a NASCAR Series Director admitting they made an officiating mistake. Crazy, but true. Nationwide Series Director Joe Balash said that penalizing Carl Edwards for “servicing outside the box” in Friday’s race wasn’t correct because Edwards was within [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Carl Edwards, Joe Balash, NASCAR, Nationwide Series, penalty, roush fenway, steve o'donnell 4 Comments »Sponsorships Don’t Grow On Trees
April 5th, 2011 Journo You know that old saying, “money doesn’t grow on trees”? Well the same can be said for sponsorships. And in a tough economic environment that’s never been more true. We get questions around here every now and then about why a team isn’t able to find sponsorship. This question has popped up recently with the [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: roush fenway, sales, sponsorship, Trevor Bayne, Wood Brothers 6 Comments »