Opinions on Racing
THE PHOTOS: Well, the low life in Florida who’s suing to get access to the Dale Earnhardt autopsy photos showed exactly what he wants to do with them. Apparently during all the noise caused by the Orlando paper, this human refuse took the opportunity to get the photos of Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr. And […]
Let’s get one thing straight before I get started here. I am a NASCAR fan. A total NASCAR fan. The kind that wears my favorite team colors pretty much everyday. Everyone at work knows me as a NASCAR nut. Having said that, I can’t help but think that the big wigs at NASCAR have gone […]
Beginning in the sport before and at the start of NASCAR as a sanctioning body, the Wood family of Stuart, VA, and the Pettys of Level Cross, NC have been the sport’s historic backbone. Alongside now-retired Junior Johnson, the team of Glen, Leonard, and Delano Wood and the team of the Petty family dominated NASCAR’s […]
THE ANTHEM: This is a pet peeve of mine: the National Anthem is not a country song, it’s not a jazz song, it’s not a rock and roll song, it’s not something you "interpret". It’s a song that should be performed the same each time. It bugs me when I hear someone mangle the words […]
There he goes again. Entering Week Seven, Bruton Smith is mouthing off as he always does whenever Texas Motor Speedway comes up on the schedule. He notes how Texas will seat 200,000 people and so forth, and was rumored to be eyeing the purchase of Darlington Raceway, so he could close it down and use […]
The most popular track in NASCAR is the half-mile bowl in Tennessee known as Bristol. This season marks the 30th anniversary of the track’s debut in what was then known as the NASCAR Grand National series. Jack Smith was the first winner on a track where the banking was at some 18 degrees. In the […]
DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW: Two crew chiefs were fined and suspended this week for rules violations. Specifically, violations having to do with the seat belt harnesses in their cars. Melling Racing has said they’re going to appeal NASCAR’s ruling. Apparently, they trimmed some excess belt material off of one of the shoulder […]
SNOOZING: Let me get this out of the way first: I slept through most of the Winston Cup race Sunday at Darlington, so I didn’t see too many contiguous laps. I did see the last 80 or so though. It’s not that I slept late; I watched the prerace show, but by about 50 laps […]
With Darlington in the books, NASCAR segues to an even nastier track in Bristol. And the baggage of the 2001 season is in tow as well – The safety overkill continues with the Sentinel’s rationale for examining Earnhardt’s autopsy photos. That the Sentinel is interesting only in bashing NASCAR rather than in an honest look […]
Paul G. Allen, Co-Founder of Microsoft, majority owner of Charter Communications, and visionary, once said, "For over a decade, I have pursued a vision of a Wired World where everyone is interconnected in a global network, providing immediate availability to information anywhere in the world. We want to bring new ways for the world to […]