Opinions on Racing
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 125s and Grand National time trials have been run, and a look back is in order: The aero-clean package proved itself less than raceable again. Jeff Gordon’s wire-to-wire win in the first Twin conjured up memories of the worst Speedweeks ever – 2000. The second Twin, in contrast, was a stirring battle for a […]
Here they come, marching down the street, getting funny looks from everyone they meet. But these aren’t Monkee mobiles – though the one starting 36th may be playing songs from Reba McEntire’s Girls Night Out tours. With the Twins out of the way, the field for the 500 is set. The skinny on the 43 […]
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 […]
Tony "the Tiger" Stewart wins the Budweiser Shootout!! For the second year in a row, Tony Stewart is the winner of the Budweiser Shootout. With 24 laps to go, Stewart retook the lead from Kenny Schrader and held on over second place finisher Dale Earnhardt Jr. Five cars in the lead draft had pulled away […]
BUD SNOOZEOUT: Let’s see, take four real lead changes in 70 laps, add a dash of no passing, and what do you get? An hour of boredom. POOR PONTIACS: Actually, the only make that seemed to be able to do anything was the Pontiac. Uh, weren’t those guys just saying how pathetic their 7 year […]
The Daytona Shootout has been run, and the verdict is what we all knew it would be going in – in aero-clean format the cars are vastly less raceable. Some of the early dicing was good, but after about ten laps the cars just stayed in line and could not pass. Remember all that talk […]