Opinions on Racing
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the EA Sports 500 at Talladega, and his car is found to be illegal during post-race inspection. The height of the roof is 1/8 inch lower than the required 51 inches, and his crew chief, Tony Eury Sr. is fined $25,000 for the infraction. I listened to one commentator tell us […]
Okay, fellow fans, now that the blood flow has returned to my fingertips after gripping the couch yesterday for the final 80 laps of the EA Sports 500, my initial reaction of anger coupled with, well, anger is still in place. Why the anger? For starters, it’s safe to say that this mood started long […]
As Talladega gets underway, some issues: Sports Illustrated’s website commissioned experts to analyze six 2001 crashes and offer comments on their severity. The crashes involved were at the Daytona 500, California 500, the Winston and Winston Open Sprint, and the Chicagoland 400. Their analyses are informative and thus of great interest. There is, though, a […]
NEVER SAY NEVER: Jeff Burton says he will "never" leave Roush Racing. I suspect that Joe Ruttman had the same feeling as well. NORTH WILKESBORO: Let’s see… we have two entities who each own 50% of a facility, and the facility is falling into disrepair. You’d think they’d have at least sold it by now, […]
What is it about that sponsorship? When Goodwrench sponsorship entered NASCAR in the mid-1980s, its bearer had already proven his cheapshot bona-fides over nearly a decade and kept proving them through his remaining years, so much so that his name is all the adjective needed to describe on-track roughness. His replacement this year didn’t even […]
"Tough times don’t last, tough people do" – you did it man! Ricky Craven wins Martinsville!! Ricky Craven scored his first Winston Cup victory in the Old Dominion 500 held in Martinsville, Virginia on Monday. Craven spent most of the day in the top five, but took the lead with a daring move to make […]
ARE YOU READY FOR SHORT-TRACK-IIIINNNNNNNNNN? Okay, I’m a fan of The Monkees and Michael Nesmith, so I can sing them better than I can do Hank Williams Jr. But the rainout at Martinsville forced a late-morning/afternoon Monday lead-in to Monday Night Football, a situation not entirely disagreeable, as previous Monday NASCAR events have proven quite […]
Dreams do come true. Just ask Stuart Kirby, the 20-year-old racing sensation from Bowling Green, Kentucky! He’s seemingly jumped straight from the ranks of Late Model racing at the Nashville Speedway to the ARCA RE/MAX Series to the elite Winston Cup ranks in only one season! Dubbed the ‘Kentucky Kid’, Kirby has caught the attention […]
I have asked this before is this column and I’ll ask it again. Has NASCAR completely lost it’s marbles? NASCAR seems to be going out of its way to remove any fun or personality from the sport that we have all come to love and appreciate. No climbing up on the roof of your car […]
AMERICA STRIKES BACK: I’m not sure what to make of the fact that, at least in Nashville, CBS had not one word about the attacks on Afghanistan, and continued to show the Titan$ football game, while NBC basically moved the race to TBS. I don’t know if the decision to continue broadcasting the football game […]