Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
Some teams got their Irish up in the Irish Hills. A look at the weekend: Just when we thought the Silly Season couldn’t get more bizarre – it did. Greg Specht of Ford isn’t the only one stunned at Cal Wells’ decision to switch to Pontiac – the whole idea never sounded plausible. Switch from […]
Eleven years ago, on August 18th Dale Jarrett got his first Winston Cup victory at Michigan International Speedway, and the 18th remains a lucky one on the calendar for Jarrett. Today’s winning of the Pepsi 400 marks the third time Jarrett has picked up the win on the date of August 18th. Who what have […]
TANKS FOR THE GAS: I guess I’ll join the bandwagon here and wonder out loud why NASCAR thinks having a smaller gas tank will separate the cars at Talladega. As has been said by others, they pit together anyway, so now they’ll have to pit twice as often. I still maintain that my solution to […]
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 […]