Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
So we leave a concrete bowl and head for a two-mile oval, and upon leaving the bowl, we get something the sport may suddenly be seeing more of, and which the sport perhaps needs to juice up competitiveness that has staled of late – genuine, hate-filled driver anger. Bobby Hamilton was livid at NASCAR’s non-calls […]
FIRST WIN… NOT: Seems those Richard Childress drivers have a thing for drivers with a last name of Hamilton. A few years ago Dale Earnhardt cost Bobby Hamilton, Sr. a victory by bulldozing him out of the way. Not to be outdone, Mike Skinner did the same thing to Bobby Jr. Saturday at the Busch […]
From one marathon to another. 400 laps at Charlotte are strenuous, but 400 laps at Dover Downs are something else altogether. Add in the different quality of surface, and you have the season’s second crack at concrete. Dover dates back to 1969 and has traditionally been a marathon in both of its Winston Cup weekends. […]
What in the world is going on in the NASCAR world? There have been some strange things happening this year in NASCARland and it keeps getting stranger. When I think I’ve heard all there is to hear about the wild and wacky NASCARland, up pops another story that makes the whole group in Daytona Beach […]
I guess, at some point in the past, I forgot to send NASCAR my new mailing address because I don’t recall ever getting the newsletter explaining how "The Big One" was now going to be an acceptable part of auto racing. Somewhere back down the road, probably around the time the restrictor plate was nightmared […]
A SPECTACLE ALRIGHT: No, I’m not talking about 3 green flag laps in the first 20 of the Indy 500. I’m talking about the pathetic performance of the National Anthem before the race. I haven’t seen that much disrespect shown to the song (and the country for that matter) since Rosanne did her number on […]
SAFETY FIRST?: NASCAR took a giant step backwards Friday night when they let the cars qualify in the dark. There’s no excuse for that. They knew the power company was working on getting the power back on, and should have suspended qualifying until then. They did this last year at Talladega when qualifying went long […]
After having to deal with the deaths of Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, and now Dale Earnhardt – NASCAR has gone TOO far this time! Starting the Winston on a WET track with 20 cars is like standing on a battlefield with a butterknife. NASCAR what were you thinking? You have never started a race on […]
ON TRAC: OK, there’s a bunch of guys who have a lot of cubic dollars to burn. So, what do they do to get rid of it? They start a racing series. They seem to think that tracks that don’t have Winston Cup dates will be the venues for their races. So that’s step one, […]
It’s virtually impossible for any new racing facility to score a perfect ‘10’ on its inaugural weekend considering the enormity of details to be addressed leading up to the dropping of the green flag! But, Dover Downs Entertainment CEO, Denis McGlynn, was very pleased with the final outcome at the new Nashville Superspeedway this past […]