Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
DRIVING THE WHELEN: Steve Park’s Winston Cup career is seriously affected when he’s t-boned while driving the #31 Busch car. Now on Friday night Johnny Benson gets some ribs broken while driving the same car and sat out the race with Joe Nemechek driving. It also looks as if Park will be getting the boot […]
Pensacola, FL — In a race where Joey Clanton broke a 35-year old record by winning his fourth consecutive race of the 2002 season, fellow driver, JC Beattie Jr. and his ATI Racing team stayed in the game and came home with a solid finish. Beattie, who started the race on the .5-mile oval from […]
First off, a belated apology is in order. My "Some People Don’t Ever Learn" piece criticized the recent Texas-Martinsville controversy. Quotes denigrating the Martinsville track attributed to Texas officials led to a public rebuke by Clay Campbell, and I seconded the rebuke by noting the apparent arrogance of Texas’ campaign to get a second Winston […]
Tony Stewart starts from the rear; manages to stay afloat in the sea of disaster to take the win! On lap 373 Stewart took the lead from Ryan Newman, survived a couple more restarts, and brought it home. But what the heck happened to one of my favorite race tracks?? Complaints about the sealer were […]
CALI-BORIN-YA: The "Taking a Nap" 500 Sunday was a snoozer. I literally fell asleep watching the race, something I haven’t done in a long time. The only racing excitement happened at the start and at the restarts after the cautions. I don’t know how many lead changes they’re claiming happened, but as usual, most of […]
Jimmie Johnson, just a few races into his Winston Cup career, takes the win at the Napa Auto Parts 500 in Fontana this past weekend. After many years of major sponsorship, Lowe’s finally is partnered with a driver that can bring it home. Congratulations to Jimmie and members of the Hendricks Motorsports team for a […]
"After the high drama on Sunday in Alabama, this weekend’s race at California Speedway will likely be another snoozer….In part, that’s because the speeds are too fast….The action might be considerably better if NASCAR cut speeds here by 10 to 15 MPH, but there are no indications that that is going to happen." MIGHT be […]
SAFE RACING: Ah, thanks to the new (old) aero rules, we had a safe race Sunday at Talladega. There were no big wrecks like last year that initiated NASCAR’s removal of the aero anchors, which the drivers said caused the big wreck. Oh, wait a minute. Turns out there was a big wreck. Hmm, we […]
Again, here we sit a couple of days after the wild Talladega weekend, wondering why the suits at NASCAR can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not racing. Ask Mark Martin if he thinks it’s racing. Ask Bobby Labonte or Tony Stewart if they think it’s racing. They did ask Jimmy Makar […]
The winner of the Aaron’s 499 in Talladega comes as no surprise as Dale Earnhardt Jr. once again takes top honors and with Michael Waltrip, once again, bringing it home in second place. These two cars have dominated the last three restrictor plate races, and it appears the Chevy’s have had the advantage. I find […]