Opinions on Racing
Much is being made of NASCAR’s impending return to New Hampshire International Speedway on November 23 for the "New Hampshire 300." Apparently, a significant portion of the Winston Cup community – and a full 100% of the media corps – expects to freeze to death on that date, or at least lose a vital appendage […]
I hate to say it but Benny Parsons is completely off-base with his comments that the door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper racing we saw on Sunday is exactly what the race fans want. At least from my perspective. I don’t care to sit and watch 500 miles of "racing" where one single hiccup from one driver can take […]
Crashes galore. Injured crewmen. Injured spectators. A post-race mini-brawl in the garage area. Talladega, right? Wrong. This occurred at a track that, from reading the sanctimony of Winston Cup drivers understandably angry over losing racecars on the last lap at Talladega, should be "safer." But then it seems nothing in racing conforms to the sour […]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the EA Sports 500 at Talladega, and his car is found to be illegal during post-race inspection. The height of the roof is 1/8 inch lower than the required 51 inches, and his crew chief, Tony Eury Sr. is fined $25,000 for the infraction. I listened to one commentator tell us […]
Okay, fellow fans, now that the blood flow has returned to my fingertips after gripping the couch yesterday for the final 80 laps of the EA Sports 500, my initial reaction of anger coupled with, well, anger is still in place. Why the anger? For starters, it’s safe to say that this mood started long […]
As Talladega gets underway, some issues: Sports Illustrated’s website commissioned experts to analyze six 2001 crashes and offer comments on their severity. The crashes involved were at the Daytona 500, California 500, the Winston and Winston Open Sprint, and the Chicagoland 400. Their analyses are informative and thus of great interest. There is, though, a […]
NEVER SAY NEVER: Jeff Burton says he will "never" leave Roush Racing. I suspect that Joe Ruttman had the same feeling as well. NORTH WILKESBORO: Let’s see… we have two entities who each own 50% of a facility, and the facility is falling into disrepair. You’d think they’d have at least sold it by now, […]
What is it about that sponsorship? When Goodwrench sponsorship entered NASCAR in the mid-1980s, its bearer had already proven his cheapshot bona-fides over nearly a decade and kept proving them through his remaining years, so much so that his name is all the adjective needed to describe on-track roughness. His replacement this year didn’t even […]
"Tough times don’t last, tough people do" – you did it man! Ricky Craven wins Martinsville!! Ricky Craven scored his first Winston Cup victory in the Old Dominion 500 held in Martinsville, Virginia on Monday. Craven spent most of the day in the top five, but took the lead with a daring move to make […]
Dreams do come true. Just ask Stuart Kirby, the 20-year-old racing sensation from Bowling Green, Kentucky! He’s seemingly jumped straight from the ranks of Late Model racing at the Nashville Speedway to the ARCA RE/MAX Series to the elite Winston Cup ranks in only one season! Dubbed the ‘Kentucky Kid’, Kirby has caught the attention […]