Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
As we approach NASCAR’s big gimmick race "The Winston," we still have some tiresome issues being bandied about, and also a new issue: The Team Racing Auto Circuit. Thus is the name of a new stock car body announced in Charlotte, a series that intends to be "complimentary" to Winston Cup, but which, as David […]
Before tonight I had never sat in the seat of a race car of any kind, except for those in the virtual world. I have raced quite a few laps at the Sahara Speedworld featuring Indy cars on moving platforms and have run a few 220+ laps around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway while trying […]
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTERS: Saturday night, I saw some great racing. Sunday, I watched the last 40 laps of some mediocre racing. No, I wasn’t watching the Richmond race Saturday night, I was at Nashville Speedway USA. I watched the last 40 laps of Richmond on Sunday via the magic of my VCR. I followed […]
When we pay a visit to NOL following the Pontiac Excitement 400, we see a curious little electronic poll asking us how we thought the final laps should have been handled- you know…finish under yellow, throw the red, or just extend the race until it can have a green-white-checker finish. Here we have further proof […]
A QUOTE: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." – Napoleon Bonaparte PR’S THE PROBLEM: I don’t think there’s anyone who can say that NASCAR was adequately prepared to deal with the death of Dale Earnhardt. A crass person would say that that NASCAR should have had enough practice over the […]
Racing’s good, bad, and ugly came to light on the last weekend of April at three different venues across the nation. The big short track show to see that weekend was Stafford Motor Speedway’s Spring Sizzler, now something of a truncated affair with the cancellation of the track’s ProStock division after last year. The lack […]
180º: The folks that thought Talladega was boring last week must have been on the edge of their seats this week. Virtually no side-by-side racing occurred at California, and I think NASCAR threw a couple of questionable caution flags just to bunch up the field and keep Rusty Wallace from winning by 10 or 15 […]
WOW: Was that some race or what? NASCAR INCONSISTENCY: NASCAR, if you’re going to black flag drivers who get below the yellow line, then you need to black flag everyone. Casey Atwood was driven below the yellow line by Sterling Marlin, and you black flagged Atwood, costing him a decent finish. Todd Bodine made a […]
By now you’ll have read that the post-Talladega 500 test of a larger roofline greenhouse and wider front fenders for the cars went unproductively. The idea was that a larger greenhouse would add enough drag to allow removal of the roof spoiler. But the speeds turned – in the 187 range – showed that the […]
There’s been an awful lot of hyperbole expended about Talladega and the "new" Winston Cup restrictor plate rules. When Dale Earnhardt came from eighteenth to first in the last five laps last Fall, writers were falling all over themselves to call it the "greatest NASCAR race of all time" and other such nonsense. Still greater […]