In a surprising announcement yesterday, Penske Racing said it would switch manufacturers to Ford at the end of the season. The team left Ford in 2003 and in recent years became the premier organization for Dodge. Together the two had a reasonable amount of success racking up 23 wins (a little less impressive considering 8 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Roush’
What’s Next For Dodge?
March 2nd, 2012 
Journo 
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: COT, dodge, ford, NASCAR, Penske, Richard Petty Motorsports, Roush, RPM 
15 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 [...]
Greg Erwin, Biffle and Chemistry
July 12th, 2011 Journo FoxSports first reported Monday that Greg Erwin had been replaced as crew chief for Greg Biffle’s #16 at Roush Fenway Racing. Matt Puccia, who was working on Roush’s R&D team, was announced as Erwin’s successor beginning this weekend. Erwin and Biffle have struggled this season capturing just one top-five and five top-tens – they sit [...]
Why The Championship Race Is Wide Open
September 13th, 2010 Journo It’s hard to believe we’re closing in on the final races of the season. In just more than two months we’ll be in Homestead to crown a champion for 2010. In the meantime we’ve got our Chase field set and 10 races to sort out the good from the great. So far this season we’ve [...]
Who’s To Blame For The Plight of JR Motorsports’ Other Driver?
February 9th, 2010 Journo So get this, JR Motorsports has three drivers. I know, it’s almost hard to believe. In all seriousness, this week has got to be the pits for Kelly Bires. He started the month hopeful he’d be making his JR Motorsports debut at Daytona with Dale Earnhardt Jr., only to find out he was being booted [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, Daytona, Fastenal, JR Motorsports, Kelly Bires, Roush 16 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #51
December 1st, 2009 T.C. After a short hiatus, “Ask The Insiders Wednesday” returns for the 51st version. We’ve got a big batch of questions, so lets get right to it. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So if you’ve got one, click on the ”Ask the Insiders” tab at [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Championship, Doug Yates, fuel injection, Kyle Petty, NASCAR, pit stops, Robert Yates, Roush, RPM, Steve Addington, Yates 4 Comments »Don’t Blame Darnell For Labonte’s Situation
September 4th, 2009 Journo Earlier this week Yates Racing announced Erik Darnell would run seven races this season (beginning this weekend at Atlanta) in the #96 Hall Of Fame Racing car. This of course meant Bobby Labonte was out of a ride, at least temporarily on that end. He of course will likely continue his consecutive race streak with [...]
The Weekend’s Forgotten Storylines
April 28th, 2009 Journo There were some great stories this weekend. Unfortunately they were hard to hear over Carl Edward’s spectacular last lap wreck and the ensuing chaos. Don’t get me wrong, I talked about it too, but I am not going to beat a dead horse here. Instead I wanted to take a minute to talk about some [...]
Where They’ve Been and Where They’re Going: Part 6
January 29th, 2009 T.C. This is part three in the series, looking at how Cup teams fared in 2008, and where they are headed in 2009. Each post will feature two teams and we will iron out details for the upcoming season and give our own projection for what to expect in ‘09. Roush Fenway Racing Coming into 2008, RFR [...]
NASCAR Families
November 30th, 2008 Journo When you think of NASCAR families what names come to mind? I’m guessing Earnhardt, Petty, Waltrip, Labonte etc. These families, and certainly many others, are NASCAR’s royalty. They though are not alone in their contributions to a sport that is full of family tradition. The tradition of fathers and sons (and daughters) following each other into NASCAR is as old [...]
Posted in NASCAR History, The NASCAR Life Tags: Childress, Earnhardt, Ganassi, Gillett Evernham, Hendrick, Hillman, Houston, living in the sport, NASCAR, NASCAR Family, NASCAR Life, Pemberton, Roush, RYR, Yates 1 Comment »