Opinions on Racing
The RacinDeals archive: race reports, commentary, and the conversations that followed.
Beginning in the sport before and at the start of NASCAR as a sanctioning body, the Wood family of Stuart, VA, and the Pettys of Level Cross, NC have been the sport’s historic backbone. Alongside now-retired Junior Johnson, the team of Glen, Leonard, and Delano Wood and the team of the Petty family dominated NASCAR’s […]
There he goes again. Entering Week Seven, Bruton Smith is mouthing off as he always does whenever Texas Motor Speedway comes up on the schedule. He notes how Texas will seat 200,000 people and so forth, and was rumored to be eyeing the purchase of Darlington Raceway, so he could close it down and use […]
THE ANTHEM: This is a pet peeve of mine: the National Anthem is not a country song, it’s not a jazz song, it’s not a rock and roll song, it’s not something you "interpret". It’s a song that should be performed the same each time. It bugs me when I hear someone mangle the words […]
The most popular track in NASCAR is the half-mile bowl in Tennessee known as Bristol. This season marks the 30th anniversary of the track’s debut in what was then known as the NASCAR Grand National series. Jack Smith was the first winner on a track where the banking was at some 18 degrees. In the […]
DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW: Two crew chiefs were fined and suspended this week for rules violations. Specifically, violations having to do with the seat belt harnesses in their cars. Melling Racing has said they’re going to appeal NASCAR’s ruling. Apparently, they trimmed some excess belt material off of one of the shoulder […]
SNOOZING: Let me get this out of the way first: I slept through most of the Winston Cup race Sunday at Darlington, so I didn’t see too many contiguous laps. I did see the last 80 or so though. It’s not that I slept late; I watched the prerace show, but by about 50 laps […]
With Darlington in the books, NASCAR segues to an even nastier track in Bristol. And the baggage of the 2001 season is in tow as well – The safety overkill continues with the Sentinel’s rationale for examining Earnhardt’s autopsy photos. That the Sentinel is interesting only in bashing NASCAR rather than in an honest look […]
Paul G. Allen, Co-Founder of Microsoft, majority owner of Charter Communications, and visionary, once said, "For over a decade, I have pursued a vision of a Wired World where everyone is interconnected in a global network, providing immediate availability to information anywhere in the world. We want to bring new ways for the world to […]
EXCITING RACING: Spring Atlanta in 2000 and 2001 prove the point that an otherwise boring race can be salvaged by an exciting last 20 laps. If the last few laps are as exciting as those we saw Sunday, then no one will remember the follow-the-leader going-in-circles racing that’s been happening in the first 90% of […]
Richard Childress is as tough as anyone can be. He is among the sport’s ultimate grown men. And at Atlanta we found that grown men do cry. In the Winston era, Ron Bouchard held the record for fewest starts – eleven – before the first win. Kevin Harvick smashed that record, and he did it […]