Opinions on Racing
The monster from Alabama is back this weekend. More thoughts as we approach: The overkill aspect of the safety debate gets another example in Ed Hinton’s hysterical piece, "Where Is NASCAR’s Conscience?" Being in the Orlando Sentinel, it is natural that it erupts in a flurry of baseless anger. "Sunday’s Talladega 500 looms as perhaps […]
I, like many other NASCAR fans, find myself dreading Sundays. I look at the clock and continue to pace back and forth in my living room deciding whether or not to turn on my television set to yet another disaster. This particular Sunday, April 22, will be NO different. As thousands of fans pour into […]
This coming weekend we, the family of NASCAR fans, will turn on our televisions sets and sit down in the grandstands overlooking two and two-thirds miles of some of the fastest asphalt on earth and we will hold our collective breath for 500 miles. Some of us will be scared to death to even watch […]
It was just about two months ago that we, the family of NASCAR fans, lost one of the greatest drivers to ever wheel a car around the tracks of this country. Although the pain has lessened and seems to be going away, the unbelievability of the event still lingers on. It is still hard to […]
HOMEWORK: This is for those people who are coming to the Nashville area to go to the Busch race next weekend. Your homework assignment is to go to NASCAR.com to get directions on how to get to the track. For extra credit, what is the banking in the turns? See the last item below for […]
With Martinsville in the books until October, the Winston Cup season enters its first bye week. And a lot has happened to a lot of teams. A look back: RAD RACING – CHEVROLET Earnhardt Inc. – #1 Steve Park; #8 Dale Earnhardt Jr.; #15 Michael Waltrip RCR Enterprises – #29 Kevin Harvick; #30 Jeff Green; […]
Entering Martinsville, some I-was-just-thinking ponderences: One of the few sensible pieces to be authored recently about NASCAR’s use of aero anchors was by Adam Sewell at Autoracing1.com. He compares Tony Stewart’s tumble to that of Bill Elliott in 1996, and also notes the tumbles of Michael Waltrip and Jeff Green at Daytona in 2000. He […]
THE PHOTOS: Well, the low life in Florida who’s suing to get access to the Dale Earnhardt autopsy photos showed exactly what he wants to do with them. Apparently during all the noise caused by the Orlando paper, this human refuse took the opportunity to get the photos of Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr. And […]
Let’s get one thing straight before I get started here. I am a NASCAR fan. A total NASCAR fan. The kind that wears my favorite team colors pretty much everyday. Everyone at work knows me as a NASCAR nut. Having said that, I can’t help but think that the big wigs at NASCAR have gone […]
Beginning in the sport before and at the start of NASCAR as a sanctioning body, the Wood family of Stuart, VA, and the Pettys of Level Cross, NC have been the sport’s historic backbone. Alongside now-retired Junior Johnson, the team of Glen, Leonard, and Delano Wood and the team of the Petty family dominated NASCAR’s […]