Opinions on Racing
BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU: Looks like some "minority" shareholders in Speedway Motorsports, Inc. have filed a lawsuit against NASCAR for failure to grant Texas a second race. Hmm, let’s see. If I’m a majority shareholder in this company, and I want to sue NASCAR, but I don’t want it to look like I’m […]
The Daytona 500, what a crazy race. Than again, what part of the weekend wasn’t crazy? The Winston Cup guys gave us a rookie on the pole, an 18 car pile-up, another six car wreck, a red flag, an illegal car repair, and somehow Ward Burton found himself in victory lane at Daytona. That’s what […]
The inevitable whining about restrictor plate racing has begun, and among the worst pieces in a subject genre in which there are far too few accurate analyses is Jerry Bonkowski’s lament about Daytona. Bonkowski has displayed an annoying streak of getting it wrong on several issues, and he does it again here, griping about the […]
Was this a race or the re-fighting of Black Hawk Down? Whatever it was, it left a lot of cars smashed up, a perennially underrated driver and team holding the Harley Earl Trophy, a forgotten superstar team of the past one spot short of a return to its greatest triumphs, another forgotten star in one […]
Somehow first thing this morning, I knew I would hear from my brother who has been living in Brussels for the past year and a half. He’s an avid NASCAR fan, and was bound and determined to find a place to watch the race. I thought I’d share what he had to say. Here goes: […]
Ward Burton wins the Daytona 500! When all when said and done, amidst a day of "business as usual" restrictor plate racing, Ward Burton came out the winner! This is a good thing because he’s one of those drivers that everybody seems to like, and it’s a happy occasion when he wins. This was Burton’s […]
Ryan Newman’s performance in Sunday’s Daytona 500 made a statement, that last year wasn’t a fluke. After splitting 2001 into a campaign Newman and his Penske team labeled as the "ABC’s of NASCAR", entering races in the ARCA, Busch, and Winston Cup Series, he competed and proved his ability in all three. In 2002 Newman […]
TEN YEARS: What a difference ten years makes. The Speed Channel showed the 1998 Daytona 500 Saturday night, and ESPN Classic showed the 1988 Checker 500 at Phoenix an hour later. I swapped back and forth between both. It’s pretty amazing how much the cars have changed in ten years. In 1988, there were quite […]
The best race so far in Speedweeks transpired on Friday afternoon and Robert Pressley grabbed his first win anywhere in years – offhand I can only recall him last winning in August 1993 with Daniel Welsh in Grand National at New Hampshire. I had been under the impression that the Trucks did not run ram […]
Jeff Gordon showed us why he was smiling after last weekend’s Budweiser Shootout, when he easily reeled in the win during the Gatorade 125 qualifying race for the Daytona 500. Gordon took the lead on the first lap and never looked back, leading all 50 laps of the first event and earning the third starting […]