Opinions on Racing
Q. Talk about your year so far with the Coors Light Dodge team? A. We’ve had a good season, but I’m not surprised. I knew it was just a matter of time until everything would come together for this team. It’s like anything else, once you get all the right elements in place like the […]
When NASCAR revealed that Jeremy Mayfield’s lap belt partly tore in his Delaware 400 crash, Simpson growled that "they can put on all the dog and pony shows they want……it’s just more food for the lawsuit." So confirms that something utterly unnecessary will transpire – a lawsuit by Simpson against NASCAR. Simpson has steadily become […]
"These new tires Goodyear brought in weren’t worth a damn." So said a thoroughly angered Joe Frasson after one of the aforementioned Akron-based shoes erupted out from under him at the Talladega 500 of 1972. Adding insult to injury, James Hylton won that race on year-old tires, saying, "I was going with the old rubber […]
Congratulations to the folks at Dover for a job well done! The pre-race ceremonies drew the crowd to a sense of unity mirroring what is happening all across the country these days. The performances of Lee Greenwood and Tanya Tucker lent an air of patriotism unsurpassed, with 140,000 cheering fans waving flags and chanting "USA […]
To open this newest piece, a link is necessary to better contexualize my previous two columns. The link serves as an example of how NASCAR and the NFL should have handled the recent crisis. More New Hampshire – the following story displays just why Bruton Smith is not well liked among certain quarters of the […]
ESPN Radio carried a small item on one of its Sunday SportCenter briefs that conveys better than anything why sports should have continued where logistically possible on the recent weekend – the NY Giants football team visited rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center wreckage to convey thanks for their efforts. The […]
For a while it appeared that NASCAR would not buckle under as the NFL, NHL, and other sports bodies had done in the days following the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Department of Defense. But in the end, NASCAR and also the IRL did knuckle under. Races slated for the 16th […]
It has taken me almost the entire day to find the words to write this column and I still cannot even begin to put into words the emotions that are screaming through my body. I have cried, I have been angry, I have been numb with devastation. This will only be a few words. My […]
Tempers were flying all weekend long. "Payback" was the word of the race Friday night when the Busch drivers took to the track. Early on Greg Biffle got into Jay Sauter, causing him to lose many laps behind the wall. After making repairs Sauter went back out on track, and is believed to have intentionally […]
Racing at Richmond is great!! There is so much "racing" going on you don’t know where to watch next. Congratulations go to Ricky Rudd who stood, undaunted, after being bumped and overtaken by Kevin Harvick with seventeen laps to go, and proceeded to gather it back up and "bump" back to retake the lead on […]