Double Clutchin’-The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From New Hampshire
June 30, 2008
Call him the Milli Vanilli of NASCAR, because not only did Kurt Busch win a race that he did not deserve to win, the drivers who were in control of the majority of the race were left doing the only thing that they could do; blaming the rain. If there’s a worse finish in sports than a race stopped by rain, I’m pretty sure that I’ve not been a witness to whatever it is. A rain-out robs fans of the best part of the race; the finish, and this race Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
June 30, 2008
Ten For The Weekend
1. The Unification High Is Over, Or Should Be — The Indy Racing League is now in charge of open-wheel racing in North America, but apparently has lost control of its races. The starts and re-starts at Richmond on Saturday night that led to a near-record 102 caution laps were an abomination. Another show in front of an excellent crowd gets undone. Read more
Double Clutchin’-The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From Sonoma
June 23, 2008
First off, let me be cranky for a minute and although I’m probably in the minority here, I like baseball inside a diamond, football on a 100-yard field (or 120 counting the end-zones, if you want to be picky), and I prefer NASCAR races to be held on an oval track. I’m not a big fan of road races in the NASCAR circuit because they’re just too different from the other races that the drivers usually run, and to me it’s the equivalent of watching Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
June 23, 2008
The Weekend In Ten:
1. Scott Kalitta’s fatal accident at Englishtown — Including Darrell Russell’s Top Fuel crash in 2004, Kalitta’s Funny Car crash was the third fatal accident in four years involving nitro drivers. Given NASCAR’s record since Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s fatal crash in 2001, the NHRA needs to ask itself some tough questions. Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
June 16, 2008
Not long after Dale Earnhardt Jr. won his first points race for Hendrick Motorsports at Michigan, I put in a call to one of my friends in High Places and asked a favor. I needed to talk to Dale Earnhardt Sr. and could he please put me in touch? Within a miraculous minute or two, the phone rang. It was Dale. Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
June 9, 2008
Just when I thought last year’s Ferrari spy scandal couldn’t be topped, the now infamous video of the embattled FIA President Max Mosley, caught flagrante dilecto as the divorce lawyers like to say, appeared. Given the choice of inevitably following all the details of yet another tawdry scandal — or not — I chose to put F1 on the back burner. Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
June 2, 2008
Top Ten reasons why it would be a Good Thing if David
Coulthard took up NASCAR racing once his F-1 career concludes. Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
May 26, 2008
The announcement of H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler’s departure as the promoter at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway rocked the NASCAR community. The less than amicable split with Speedway Motorsports Inc. owner Bruton Smith immediately became one of the most significant break-ups in the sport’s history. Here follows one writer’s opinion of the Top 25 break-ups in NASCAR. Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
May 16, 2008
(Friday Edition)
The NASCAR schedule landed in Charlotte this week, once again a political crossroads. Scene of the sanctioning body’s first Strictly Stock race on a dirt short track in 1949, Charlotte has been home to trouble, boil and bubble on more than a few occasions since. Read more
Monday Morning Crew Chief
May 5, 2008
What a mixed bag at Richmond, a capitol of the confederacy of competition otherwise known as stock car racing. I was pulling for a fellow Virginian to pull off the nigh impossible perfect victory and simultaneously disdaining the ease of Toyota’s incursion into the top echelon of the Sprint Cup. Then there was the disaster of Dale Earnhardt Jr. versus Kyle Busch. Read more