Opinions on Racing
By now you’ll have read that the post-Talladega 500 test of a larger roofline greenhouse and wider front fenders for the cars went unproductively. The idea was that a larger greenhouse would add enough drag to allow removal of the roof spoiler. But the speeds turned – in the 187 range – showed that the […]
There’s been an awful lot of hyperbole expended about Talladega and the "new" Winston Cup restrictor plate rules. When Dale Earnhardt came from eighteenth to first in the last five laps last Fall, writers were falling all over themselves to call it the "greatest NASCAR race of all time" and other such nonsense. Still greater […]
PLATE RACING: I’ve seen a lot of agonizing recently about the upcoming race at Talladega. "Oh dear, we’re going back to a restrictor plate track with those horrible, horrible aero rules. How many more drivers will be killed before NASCAR comes to its senses?" To listen to the keening, you’d think that there’s been a […]
The monster from Alabama is back this weekend. More thoughts as we approach: The overkill aspect of the safety debate gets another example in Ed Hinton’s hysterical piece, "Where Is NASCAR’s Conscience?" Being in the Orlando Sentinel, it is natural that it erupts in a flurry of baseless anger. "Sunday’s Talladega 500 looms as perhaps […]
I, like many other NASCAR fans, find myself dreading Sundays. I look at the clock and continue to pace back and forth in my living room deciding whether or not to turn on my television set to yet another disaster. This particular Sunday, April 22, will be NO different. As thousands of fans pour into […]
This coming weekend we, the family of NASCAR fans, will turn on our televisions sets and sit down in the grandstands overlooking two and two-thirds miles of some of the fastest asphalt on earth and we will hold our collective breath for 500 miles. Some of us will be scared to death to even watch […]
It was just about two months ago that we, the family of NASCAR fans, lost one of the greatest drivers to ever wheel a car around the tracks of this country. Although the pain has lessened and seems to be going away, the unbelievability of the event still lingers on. It is still hard to […]
HOMEWORK: This is for those people who are coming to the Nashville area to go to the Busch race next weekend. Your homework assignment is to go to NASCAR.com to get directions on how to get to the track. For extra credit, what is the banking in the turns? See the last item below for […]
With Martinsville in the books until October, the Winston Cup season enters its first bye week. And a lot has happened to a lot of teams. A look back: RAD RACING – CHEVROLET Earnhardt Inc. – #1 Steve Park; #8 Dale Earnhardt Jr.; #15 Michael Waltrip RCR Enterprises – #29 Kevin Harvick; #30 Jeff Green; […]
Entering Martinsville, some I-was-just-thinking ponderences: One of the few sensible pieces to be authored recently about NASCAR’s use of aero anchors was by Adam Sewell at Autoracing1.com. He compares Tony Stewart’s tumble to that of Bill Elliott in 1996, and also notes the tumbles of Michael Waltrip and Jeff Green at Daytona in 2000. He […]