Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
So will he or won’t he? Will Ricky Rudd bring an end to his racing career after 2002 – says Rudd, "I’ve got a young boy at home (Landon), seven years old, that would like to have his dad go watch him play baseball at the games and stuff."1 – or will he sign with […]
RIP, ANDY KIRBY: First thing I heard this morning was that three-time track champion at Fairgrounds Speedway at Nashville Andy Kirby had been killed in a motorcycle accident. Andy was 7th on the all time win list at Fairgrounds, and I think if he’d had decent equipment in his brief Busch Series career, he’d have […]
New Hampshire now beckons. Some pre-Loudon miscellanea – Maybe Jimmy Spencer should be an out-of-bounds lane. Spencer screamed about Kevin Harvick passing on the apron of the tri-oval at Chicagoland and claimed there should be out-of-bounds lanes there as well as at Daytona. Spencer is wrong. Harvick’s move was dumb not because he went to […]
Another racing week goes by and once again there are just too many people to bump. I’ll let some of my peers share their opinions about the many weekly topics from Muppetgate to debating whether or not Kevin Harvick is an idiot. Hopefully, this week I’ll give you an escape from the same old stuff. […]
First off, a pair of items from my two previous columns need addressing. Two columns back I noted the Geoff Bodine-Ryan Newman crash at Daytona. My description of the crash was based on several published press accounts, but since the column’s appearance numerous correspondents have e-mailed corrections to this item indicating what actually occurred in […]
Being more of a short-track fan, the "cookie-cutter" tracks provide the least entertainment to me. In the scheme of things, the most enjoyment comes from trying to figure out when the infamous "debris" call is going to be made and who will be the resulting beneficiary of same. Kevin Harvick — who would have thought […]
I’m going to deviate from the normal RacinDeals column format for this column because I have a few things to say on just one subject. Now, for those of you readers out there who don’t know anything about Fairgrounds Speedway at Nashville or care to know anything about it, stop right here. Come back Monday […]
RACING EXCITEMENT: I attend the Saturday night races here in Nashville at the Fairgrounds as part of my duties as webmaster for their site. A fellow by the name of Joe Buford has been stinking up the Late Model races. In one stretch, he won four races and had led about 95% of the laps. […]
NASCAR’s "fuzzy" red-flag rules are still being discussed after the Firecracker 400 and the predictable calls for more clearly-defined rules are going out. The obvious proposal is a green-white-checker rule common to short tracks and the Truck Series. It would certainly work at all the tracks. The caveat is always added that it would not […]
With Saturday night being their last televised race of 2002, NASCAR on FOX wanted to go out with a bang. Through the efforts of many, even those not directly employed by FOX including, The Marine Corps Honor Guard, Jessica Simpson, an American bald eagle, fireworks, THE BIG ONE, Michael Waltrip’s second win at Daytona and […]