Opinions on Racing
SANTA BABY !! Santa baby, slip a driver under the tree, for me I’ve been an awful good girl! Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight!!! Santa baby, a new Dodge Intrepid too, I’ll be waitin up for y’all dear Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight!!! Think of all races I’ve missed […]
Glance over most any little boy’s Christmas list and somewhere you may find a request for a shiny new toy truck. Glance over 41-year-old Willy Ribbs list and you’ll see he indeed received his shiny new red truck, but this is no toy, it’s a Dana Corporation-sponsored Craftsman Truck Series truck capable of reaching speeds […]
We enter the second year of the third millennium of time, and it is a season of change, in race teams, broadcasters, racetracks, even in qualifying procedure. With testing teams go through the preparations necessary to compete, and work to correct mistakes made in 2000 and build on strengths discovered or long-wielded. What are the […]
LITTLE H: If you’d asked me four years ago if I thought Bobby Hamilton, Jr. had a career in racing in front of him, I’d have probably told you you were wrong. I’d have been wrong. Bobby Jr. raced Late Models at Nashville Speedway USA, starting out the same time as Casey Atwood. Both teams […]
Many people have already penned this 2000 season as forgettable, miserable and tragic. Losing three drivers in our top three series’ will always be near and dear to our hearts, but my personal memories will be far from those sad places. I was a casual fan for the last four years and decided it was […]
While we wait for the roughly eighty days before the next Daytona 500 to elapse, there are still stories in motorsports worth discussing. Some comments on miscellanea within the sport: For only the third time in NASCAR’s history, the presidency has changed hands. It has done so in smooth fashion, and without the outright cheating […]
Cuban-born Felix Sabates, a lifelong achiever of reaching seemingly insurmountable goals, believes determination, hard work, and perseverance are keys to reaching the "American Dream" we all strive to successfully reach. Sabates, not only built one of his companies, Top Sales Inc., into the largest Hispanic-owned company in the United States, with sales exceeding $500 million, […]
Allow me to borrow from my generation, the television generation. It was that generation that was bid farewell from the television series M*A*S*H with an episodic television movie finale entitled “Goodbye, Farewell, Amen.” The conclusion of the 2000 edition of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series took its final laps in much the same way Hawkeye, […]
With the finale of the 2000 season, the off-season now beckons, one that will likely see significant testing sessions at non-Winston Cup tracks as teams struggle to prepare for 2001. It also beckons a look back at the ten top stories of the 2000 season: – 1 – NEW TRACK RECORDS AND THE DANGER FACTOR […]
The cycle is always amazing – one season will be a mixed bag, another season will be better, and then it seems like the sport gets a year no one wants to end. Incredible as it may seem, 2000 managed to have all of that, even though overall it was a season more worth forgetting […]