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 [...]
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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 »What Does Bowyer Do Now?
September 15th, 2011 Journo For much of the early part of the season it was Carl Edwards who took up all the oxygen as the chief target of 2012 speculation. And after months and rumors, Edwards ultimately re-signed with Roush Fenway Racing. Up next was Clint Bowyer who looked early on like another candidate to re-sign with his existing [...]
Crew Chief Musical Chairs
July 21st, 2011 Journo Just past the halfway point of the season, with just seven races until the Chase begins, several teams have decided now is the prefect time to start making some serious changes on the ground. Roush Fenway Racing announced last week Greg Erwin was being replaced by Matt Puccia as Greg Biffle’s crew chief. The #16 [...]
Menard And Cassill Pleasantly Surprising At Michigan
June 20th, 2011 Journo By winning at Michigan Denny Hamlin became the 10th different winner of the season. His hard fought victory over Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards and his own teammate, Kyle Busch, added to what’s been a thrilling season marked by a diverse cast of characters. Adding to that cast Sunday were Paul Menard and Landon Cassill. In [...]
Foster Gillett? Please, Not Again
March 31st, 2011 Journo Bob Margolis tweeted yesterday: Can we not all recognize that the Raikkonen to NASCAR story with Frat Boy Gillett is an April Fool’s joke? If only it was. Unfortunately, NASCAR confirmed yesterday Raikkonen had requested and received approval to run the truck race at Charlotte. The word from multiple news organizations is that he’ll run [...]
Paul Menard? Go Figure
March 25th, 2011 Journo Richard Childress Racing entered the 2011 season with some serious momentum. All three of the team’s drivers finished last season in the top-12 in points – Jeff Burton in 12th, Clint Bowyer in 10th and Kevin Harvick in third – and they had five wins in between them. After a disastrous 2009 season, it was a quick [...]
Petty Sold His Soul To Save RPM
February 23rd, 2011 T.C. We don’t normally read, let alone act on any PR emails we receive, but when I got a message about Forbes upcoming feature on NASCAR’s wealth, I got excited. Every year, Forbes magazine does a ranking of the most valuable teams in NASCAR, along with a list of the highest paid drivers. The leaders on [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: Andrew Murstein, Douglas Bergeron, Forbes, Gillett, NASCAR, Richard Petty, RPM 4 Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: 2010, Aric Almirola, Billy Johnson, Bob Jenkins, Braun Racing, Caitlin Shaw, catch can, Cup Series, D.J. Copp, David Starr, Elliott Sadler, erik darnell, Extenze, Front Row Motorsports, Iain Watts, Johanna Long, Josh Wise, Kevin Conway, KHI, Larry Carter, lugnuts, marc davis, Marcos Ambrose, Matt Kenseth, mike skinner, NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Randy Moss Motorsports, robby gordon, ron hornaday, Roush Fenway Racing, RPM, rumors, scorecard, Steve Turner, Tayler Malsam, TJ Bell, Travis Kvapil, Trevor Bayne, Truck Series, Turner Motorsports 5 Comments »The COT Saves Again
August 2nd, 2010 Journo To use the words of the late David Poole, Dale Earnhardt saved Elliott Sadler’s life on Sunday. What happened to Elliott Sadler on the backstretch (between turns one and two) late in the race at Pocono isn’t exactly clear to those of us who didn’t happen to be in a car and on the backstretch [...]
Posted in NASCAR at the Track, Racing Observations Tags: armco, Car of Tomorrow, COT, Dale Earnhardt, David Poole, Elliott Sadler, ESPN, Kurt Busch, Pocono Raceway, RPM, safer, safer barrier, safety 11 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #83
July 14th, 2010 T.C. With the Cup cars being off this weekend, the Truck and Nationwide Series take center stage at Gateway. They will race under the lights on Friday and Saturday night. Before they do, we’ve got the 83rd edition of Ask The Insiders Wednesday. If you don’t know what this post is, we answer any and all reader questions [...]
