Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
TEN YEARS: What a difference ten years makes. The Speed Channel showed the 1998 Daytona 500 Saturday night, and ESPN Classic showed the 1988 Checker 500 at Phoenix an hour later. I swapped back and forth between both. It’s pretty amazing how much the cars have changed in ten years. In 1988, there were quite […]
The best race so far in Speedweeks transpired on Friday afternoon and Robert Pressley grabbed his first win anywhere in years – offhand I can only recall him last winning in August 1993 with Daniel Welsh in Grand National at New Hampshire. I had been under the impression that the Trucks did not run ram […]
Jeff Gordon showed us why he was smiling after last weekend’s Budweiser Shootout, when he easily reeled in the win during the Gatorade 125 qualifying race for the Daytona 500. Gordon took the lead on the first lap and never looked back, leading all 50 laps of the first event and earning the third starting […]
Here they come, marching down the street, getting funny looks from everyone they meet. But these aren’t Monkee mobiles – though the one starting 36th may be playing songs from Reba McEntire’s Girls Night Out tours. With the Twins out of the way, the field for the 500 is set. The skinny on the 43 […]
The 125s and Grand National time trials have been run, and a look back is in order: The aero-clean package proved itself less than raceable again. Jeff Gordon’s wire-to-wire win in the first Twin conjured up memories of the worst Speedweeks ever – 2000. The second Twin, in contrast, was a stirring battle for a […]
The Daytona Shootout has been run, and the verdict is what we all knew it would be going in – in aero-clean format the cars are vastly less raceable. Some of the early dicing was good, but after about ten laps the cars just stayed in line and could not pass. Remember all that talk […]
BUD SNOOZEOUT: Let’s see, take four real lead changes in 70 laps, add a dash of no passing, and what do you get? An hour of boredom. POOR PONTIACS: Actually, the only make that seemed to be able to do anything was the Pontiac. Uh, weren’t those guys just saying how pathetic their 7 year […]
Tony "the Tiger" Stewart wins the Budweiser Shootout!! For the second year in a row, Tony Stewart is the winner of the Budweiser Shootout. With 24 laps to go, Stewart retook the lead from Kenny Schrader and held on over second place finisher Dale Earnhardt Jr. Five cars in the lead draft had pulled away […]
I’m still a little on Cloud Nine from the Patriots’ win in Super Bowl XXXVI, but as far as racing goes, I was just thinking…….. – First off an apology for an oversight. In my 2002 Preview piece I neglected to mention Brett Bodine’s team. While a win is admittedly out of the realm of […]
As Travis Kvapil heads to Daytona to begin his second full season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, he has one major goal in mind: to win the Championship. With three-time Truck Series’ Champ Jack Sprague heading to the Busch Grand National Series, Kvapil has one obstacle out of the way. Well, make that two […]