Opinions on Racing
Entering the Yankee 400 at Michigan, the big story has been testing of new cars, at Charlotte and at Daytona. The Charlotte test of lower down force coupled with the larger roofline greenhouse was an unqualified failure. But then the test shifted to larger spoilers and some stabilization was achieved, though Jimmy Spencer and crew […]
Hold on – here is the bump and the SPIN OUT! What a week of ups and downs for Tony Stewart and his #20 Home Depot team. A soap opera writer couldn’t write this type of story, but for what it’s worth, I think all will be fine. Tony has stood up and accepted responsibility […]
Tony Stewart has the reputation for being the most POed driver in the garage. He gets POed faster than most. And that anger management course he’s taken sure worked at Watkins Glen. At Indy he got POed and got into it with photographer Gary Mook. After Indy he got into an anger management course. And […]
Tony Stewart is still the "tiger" where it counts the most; victory lane! The turmoil and sadness surrounding the driver of the number 20 car this past week, was abated for at least a little while as Stewart picked up the win in Sunday’s "Sirius Satellite at The Glen" held at Watkins Glen in Upstate […]
TARGET MARKET: I’ve been chiding NASCAR on their "How Bad Have You Got It" ad campaign due to the fact that it makes NASCAR fans look stupid. But based on some of the feedback I’ve seen regarding the Renshaw/Day controversy, I’d say NASCAR is overestimating the intelligence of the typical racing fan. These fans from […]
Some miscellanea before Watkins Glen: Dredged from the Department of Disproved Ideas – the larger greenhouse test at Charlotte was an unqualified failure. When a larger greenhouse car was tested at Kansas, the car ran well by itself, but "Now, we have three cars and we get on the track and we are actually worse […]
Hold on – here is the bump and the SPIN OUT! Sit him down! Fine him! Throw him out of NASCAR! This immature driver needs to be parked! These are some of things were hearing about Tony Stewart and the situation that transpired after the Brickyard 400. Reports state that after Tony got out of […]
I hate races where the outcome is so obvious before the green flag flies that awarding the trophy beforehand actually makes sense. Such was the case at the Brickyard. From the first lap of qualifying it was obvious that only a monumental fiasco would derail the Elliott Express, and no such luck came for those […]
A crowd of over 275,000 showed up this hot August day to witness Bill Elliott take the win. An emotional Ray Evernham could hardly speak as he made his way to victory lane for the second week in a row. Even the infamous "debris" call late in the race couldn’t stop the number 9 from […]
Entering the Brickyard, some thoughts – Bill Fleischman, less is not better. Shortening races at Pocono is never a good idea. 500 miles is a much better test of drivers and machinery than 400 miles, and 200 laps at Pocono is a better test than 160 laps. 160 laps on a 2.5 mile track is […]