If you were watching the race on TV Saturday night, it looked like Texas Motor Speedway had a really great crowd. In fact, the Speedway reported a crowd of 168,400. That’s nearly one and a half times the capacity of Cowboys Stadium. A heck of crowd – if it stood up to scrutiny. The grandstands [...]
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Hey, Nice Crowd (Sort Of)
April 11th, 2011 
Journo Bayne’s Cup Debut Lost In The Shuffle
November 12th, 2010 T.C. While most of the talk this week centered around the Burton/Gordon scuffle, the 48 pit crew swap, and the championship battle, young Trevor Bayne’s Cup Series debut went almost unnoticed. Bayne was making his first ever Cup start driving the famous Wood Brothers #21, and he certainly did not disappoint. Over the last few seasons, the Wood [...]
Holy Cow! That Was A Race
November 8th, 2010 Journo What we saw on Sunday is why we continue to watch this sport. There were a record number of leaders, beating and banging, pit road missteps, triumphs, heartbreak, fights and fingers. That was a race I don’t think anyone will soon forget. Don’t Mess with NASCAR Kyle Busch learned this lesson Sunday. After getting spun [...]
Double Duty Wasn’t Just For The Drivers
April 21st, 2010 T.C. If you got to watch the races on Monday from Texas you may have heard the TV guys talking about the drivers who had to do double duty. Guys like Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Greg Biffle, and others got out of their Cup rides and had to immediately jump into their Nationwide cars for another [...]
Posted in NASCAR at the Track, Over The Wall 
Tags: Cup Series, double duty, Nationwide Series, pit crew, pit stop, spotter, Texas Motor Speedway 
4 Comments »Cool It With The Jimmie Conspiracies
November 12th, 2009 Journo You’re not happy when he’s winning. You’re not happy when he’s finishing 38th, 129 laps down. What do you want out of Jimmie Johnson? We should hash this out though, because he’s not going anywhere for a while. Over on twitter and on message boards across the Internet this week people have been angrily asking [...]
Update on #51 NCTS Hauler Fire & Some Thoughts
October 29th, 2008 T.C. I just wanted to update a news item that appeared earlier today from the Truck Series. It was reported by the Shreveport Times that the #51 Billy Ballew Motorsports hauler caught fire while in route to Texas for this weekend’s NCTS race at the Texas Motor Speedway. The truck is scheduled to be driven in the race by Cup [...]
