Year: 2002

They spent a week worrying about crashing at Talladega, but Talladega and its older sister Daytona are safer racetracks than Charlotte, Richmond, and Kansas. At least that’s what one can certainly say after the appalling tragedy at Charlotte not three days after this year’s best NASCAR race. ARCA driver Eric Martin lost his life in […]

With Talladega done and Charlotte beckoning, a look at the varied winners, losers, and border liners after the Alabama 500 and entering the National 500: TALLADEGA WINNERS EARNHARDT, INC. – They are the obvious big winners – they won the race, won the $1 million, had all three cars in the top ten, and all […]

Hold on – here is the bump and the SPIN OUT! WHAT? Doesn’t anyone want to be the 2002 Winston Cup Champion? What a strange season, first SQUEEGEE Gate back at The Winston with Jeff Gordon and now ROOKIE Gate at Talladega with Jimmie Johnson. I know the Winston Cup veterans do not want to […]

DEI takes the prize again at Talladega – Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the winner again! And, he can thank Tony Stewart for making sure that happened. Tony parked in second place, did not even attempt to go for the win; settled for blocking and taking the point lead in the championship race. I suppose you […]

Talladega is the greatest racetrack in the world. With all the loose talk about "they need to change this or that racetrack," a good template for a speedway would be Talladega – Chicagoland, Kansas, Fontana, and even Pocono (which I love as is) would be better racetracks if rebuilt as 2.5-2.66 mile superovals (or triangle […]

  Please Join Us! For a Silent Auction to Benefit  Chaplain Bill and Dianna Krick Memorabilia from ARCA, Winston Cup, Busch Series Special Guest Appearances by ARCA RE/MAX Series Drivers   Date/Time:              Thursday, October 10, 2002                                 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.                                 Sneak Preview for the ARCA Community                                 Friday, October 11, 2002                                 […]

On October 4th, 2001, stock car racing lost one of its future stars. Blaise Alexander, a happy-go-lucky 25-year-old from Montoursville, PA., tragically lost his life doing what he loved most, racing. Blaise began his racing career while driving go-karts at the age of 12 in the World Karting Association (WKA.) He won the 1992 East […]

"As for Sterling Marlin, he’ll need to explode into contention at Talladega to start a point rally." Well, there was some premature jocularity shown in last week’s missive on the point race. His bad Kansas crash, atop his bad Richmond crash, has put Jamie McMurry into the #40 for the rest of the season, and […]

Hold on – here is the bump and the SPIN OUT! I guess I need to BUMP myself for giving out bad statistics about Brett Bodine in my column last week. BOY HOWDY, I heard from the FUKUYAMA fans on this one (a total of 2), however a few others brought it to my attention […]

Tally another crew chief on the board as Joe Gibbs Racing announced on Tuesday that Jimmy Makar will step down as crew chief and take over the role as team manager in 2003. Makar held crew chief duties on the #18 for 11 years. On Monday Tommy Baldwin parted ways with Bill Davis Racing, effective […]