Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
During Thursday afternoon’s test session when drivers employed the draft, Mike Wallace came up the winner in the Andy Petree #33 Chevy (yet unsponsored), with a top speed of 184.302. Rounding out the top five were; Bill Elliott, Dodge, 184.298; Jimmy Spencer, Dodge, 184.222; Bobby Labonte, Pontiac, 184.207; and Matt Kenseth, Ford, (yes, I said […]
"You couldn’t bump draft, you couldn’t get to people. They will change the rules again, I’m pretty positive." So commented Kenny Wallace before the start of the rain-delayed second test session at Daytona. His teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. concurs – "We will be stuck, not able to pass, and the whole race will depend on […]
There is no denying that feeling when the off season is nearing an end: the anticipation, the anxiousness and the frustration. You cannot wait another minute. You resort to reading up on every article and press release trying to calm your addiction to NASCAR. This is what we call "NASCAR Withdrawal". It is a serious […]
He’s not yet into his fifth season of big-league racing. Nonetheless, Casey Atwood has the promise of greatness and has gotten one of the most historic rides in the sport. He also got a sponsor that may not rub NASCAR quite right – Sirius Satellite Radio, a rival to the XM Satellite Radio system that […]
The first round of testing at Daytona is finished and the fastest lap was posted by Ward Burton with a speed of 184.961 on day three. It looked like Jimmie Johnson was going to hold onto the top spot, after having the top speed during the first two days of testing, but Burton managed to […]
So testing has begun. Week One of testing has proceeded and one can already hear the clicking of politics. Of the top fifteen speeds in both of the first two days of Daytona’s first test, Chevrolets controlled all but about four. The strongest Ford was usually Geoff Bodine in a second James Finch Taurus, while […]
FANATICS II: Some people are so rabidly fanatic about their driver that they remind me of a scene from "A Few Good Men." Jack Nicholson is being pressured on the witness stand by Tom Cruise to tell the truth. Nicholson’s characters shouts "You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!" Some race fans can’t […]
Remember when Winston Cup ran at South Boston, VA? Thompson, CT? Hickory, NC? Trenton, NJ? Probably not. Remember when Winston Cup budgets topped out at only $100,000 to $150,000? Remember when teams only had about twelve crewman total and multi-car teams were rare? Probably not. After all, thirty years is a long time. But by […]
On the first Monday of January, testing begins at Daytona. Thus begins preparations for the 2002 season in earnest. There are of course issues to anticipate with the coming new year, and Steve McCormick and Holly Cain try their hand at such in separate pieces. McCormick lists eight stories to watch in 2002. He makes […]
Ten years ago. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long since the season that it seems we all most fondly remember. It wasn’t the best as far as on-track competition. But it had the most dramatic outcome of all the seasons of the 1990s, and the cruel sequel of 1993 made it all the […]