Year: 2001

The NASCAR Awards dinner showed the strength of the Winston Cup series. Drivers down to Robby Gordon’s 44th place in points came away with more than $1 million in prize money. At the top of the list was Jeff Gordon, the 2001 Winston Cup champion, who came away with a $6.6 million check. Coupled with […]

ENTERTAINMENT: I’m not sure which is more boring… a race with a LOT of cautions or a race with no cautions. I got a chance to see both (more or less) Sunday, and you could tell that the end of the season was wearing on these guys (the All Pro and Dash Series). The All […]

Since the checkered flag fell at New Hampshire, I knew this was coming, the off season. I am aware that it will be fairly short this year, but until February, what is there to do? Fridays are fidgety, with no qualifying to watch I re-read my Winston Cup Scene checking for any articles I may […]

A record number of winners emerged from 2001. Each had newsworthy seasons within and beyond their wins. A look: #15 MICHAEL WALTRIP – By far the worst of the winners of 2001, Mikey’s lone win came because of F1-flavored team orders – Dales Junior and Senior made no attempt to pass him, instead pushing their […]

With the awards banquet on tap, the sport has wound down its competition for the year, but the debates and retrospectives continue, and the safety issue keeps burning with a warning issued by a panel of safety experts at The Performance Racing Industry show in the Indiana Convention Center. "They said the factors that killed […]

Here goes: 10. Recognition of 2001 first time race winners – It is extremely tough to win a Cup race. First time winners should be welcomed into the fraternity. 9. Genuine humility, humor, and spontaneity from drivers making speeches vs a lot of uh’s, umm’s, heh-heh’s and a litany of sponsor names. 8. An presentation […]

Now we know why the race had to be run. New Hampshire’s Turkey Weekend 300 proved to be anything but anticlimactic despite the near-universal belief that it would amount to just a waste of people’s holiday weekend. It saw the sport set a new all time record for seasonal winners at nineteen. It saw an […]

On November 20th, I attended my first NASCAR press conference. In the days leading up to the big day I was nervous and excited. My plan all along was to be professional and introduce myself to people. Although I didn’t stick to the original plan, the day went pretty well. What It Was Like As […]

Well, we all made it to the end of the season – and I have a big "I told you so" hanging over the heads of several people. The weather was beautiful in New Hampshire, and over 91,000 diehard fans were in attendance. It was too bad that the win by Robby Gordon had to […]

GET SAFER, OR ELSE: Well, the "threat" has finally surfaced: "We need to get the government involved in racing if they can’t make it safer themselves." Some newspaper in Charlotte, with nothing better to do, had some guy do some research and he found that there have been almost 300 fatalities in racing since 1990. […]