To anyone not sitting in the #00 pit, what initially transpired between Kyle Busch and David Reutimann was nothing more then a racin’ deal. Reutimann slipped up in the center of the corner, and Busch couldn’t check up fast enough. It was an accident, pure and simple. What followed was a classic overreaction. (In case [...]
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David Reutimann And The Art Of Overreaction
October 3rd, 2010 
T.C. 
Posted in NASCAR News 
Tags: Chase, David Reutimann, Kansas, Kyle Busch, payback, retaliation, wreck 
78 Comments »A Chilling Effect? Or Business As Usual?
July 22nd, 2010 Journo After a couple of days of what I’m sure was intense hand wringing and some serious questions, NASCAR announced Wednesday the punishment for Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski after their last lap melee at Gateway. As I’m sure most of you saw, NASCAR docked Edwards 60 driver points and fined him $25,000 and docked Jack [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Brad Keselowski, bump-and-run, Carl Edwards, Gateway, NASCAR, penalty, wreck 15 Comments »Kyle Busch Maturing Little By Little
July 5th, 2010 Journo I know you’re saying right now, “Journo, what the heck are you talking about?” Give me a minute. After Kyle and Juan Pablo Montoya got together on lap 103 (Montoya was about to get lapped by Busch who was in the lead), Kyle gave a very snarky interview to TNT. He said: “Yeah, I guess [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Bill Janitz, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kyle Busch, NASCAR, TNT, True Speed, True Speed Communications, wreck 17 Comments »Kudos To Joey Logano
October 5th, 2009 T.C. I’ve taken a little grief from the readers regarding my post from last week about Joey Logano needing a short memory after wrecking big at Dover. Some of you thought I was reading too much into his post wreck comments (to be honest, Journo thought I was too), and that you thought he would be fine. [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Cup Series, Dover, fear, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Kansas, Nationwide Series, wreck 3 Comments »Logano Needs A Short Memory
September 30th, 2009 T.C. While doing my usual internet trolling tonight, I came across Tom Bowles’ weekly “Did You Notice” piece over at The Frontstretch. In it, he talks about Joey Logano’s reaction to his wild wreck this past weekend at Dover. If you haven’t seen Logano’s wreck, click here. Bowles quotes Logano as saying: “It just really scared [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Dover, fear, Frontstretch, Joey Logano, Tom Bowles, wreck 16 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #39
September 1st, 2009 T.C. Don’t worry people, you are only three days away from a long holiday weekend! It will be a week of firsts, as this will be the first Labor Day weekend race at Atlanta and the first ever Truck Series race at Iowa Speedway. But this isn’t the first Ask The Insiders Wednesday, actually its the [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Goodyear, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, lug nuts, NASCAR, nascar officials, Scott Wimmer, tire testing, wreck 6 Comments »On Track Retaliation: How Much Is Too Much?
August 9th, 2009 T.C. We’ve all seen it happen. From the Friday night local short track race all the way to the Daytona 500. One driver gets wrecked; then he gets mad; then he gets even. But when does one driver retaliating against another driver go too far? I know I’m going to get blasted by the Robby Gordon [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: anger, David Stremme, Driver, Joey Logano, Pocono, retaliation, robby gordon, Watkins Glen, wreck 35 Comments »Ask The Insiders Wednesday #22
May 6th, 2009 T.C. We’ve made it to another Wednesday, this one the first of May, and that means more reader questions and answers. If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be answering any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here. So if you’ve got one, click on the ”Ask the Insiders” tab at the [...]
Posted in Ask the Insiders Tags: Engine, Girlfriend, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, motor, NASCAR, Steve Letarte, tires, tread, wife, wreck 1 Comment »The Worst Phrase to Hear on the Radio During a Race
July 24th, 2008 T.C. So there you are, sitting in your team’s pit area, minding your own business when you hear the spotter key the mic and say: “Uh, you okay?” Now the mad dash is on… Those three words are usually followed by some sort of explanation by the driver and/or spotter of what happened and then a [...]
Posted in Over The Wall Tags: bearbond, crash, damage, hammer, pit stop, repairs, sheet metal, spotter, wreck 3 Comments »When it Rains it Pours
May 14th, 2008 T.C. Have you ever had one of those days where no matter what you did, everything just went completely wrong? And it is so bad that even the people around you start to struggle too? We had one of those days not too long ago. It was sort of the opposite of the story I discussed [...]
Posted in Over The Wall, Racing Observations Tags: Crew Chief, penalty, pit road, pit stop, struggle, wreck No Comments »