Vegas Track Needs Facelift
March 14, 2004
The Vegas Cup race was about as compelling as championship ice dancing. The hopes that the new rules package and softer tires would promote a racier event went up in smoke within the first few laps of the event, when the field tucked in behind each other for single file racing.
Panic In F1 Teams?
March 7, 2004
Much was made this past winter over the differing car designs by the big four of F1; Ferrari, McLaren, Willams, and Renault. Williams and McLaren opted for the “revolutionary” approach; Williams with its tusked nose and McLaren with its needle nose design approaches. Ferrari and Renault chose to evolve their designs from last year, improving their aero bits and working on the new drive train packages and chasis designs.
Based on the above, all the insiders of the sport practically wrote off Renault and Ferrari and handed the crown to Montoya, Ralf or Kimi. Not to mention the prediction of the demise of Michael Schumacher. After the season opener in Melbourne, I think all those predictons aren’t worth the crumpled paper they were written on.
Should NASCAR realign schedule for 2005?
February 27, 2004
The announcement of the point system overhaul several weeks ago began the inevitable conversation of schedule realignment in 2005. As it stands now the last ten events are New Hampshire, Dover, Talladega, Kansas, Charlotte, Martinsville, Atlanta, Phoenix, Darlington and Miami. A nice round division of tracks, but no real crown jewel event.
Andretti Calls For CART’s Demise
January 22, 2004
The best part of this article is the comments section at the bottom where all the Canadian CART supporters BLAST Andretti for stating his opinion that CART needs to go away. Canadians have long been huge CART supporters and have been recently joined by the Mexicans. It’s a damn shame that this series has huge support groups to the north and south, but can’t survive in its own home country, the US of A.
What’s Under the Skin?
January 21, 2004
Or, how “stock” are stock cars?
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racers are only “stock” cars in name. This writer recently had an extended (and unsupervised but approved) visit to the HaasCNC Racing shops. There we had the opportunity to look at the skeleton under the skin at Ward Burton’s new NetZero Chevrolets.
NASCAR Drivers Sold Short In Europe
January 14, 2004
It doesn’t surprise me as much as it apparently surprises David Poole of the Charlotte Observer that English racing rag AutoSport has drastically sold NASCAR talent short on its latest list of the greatest race car drivers in the world. The first NEXTEL cup driver (Ryan Newman) ranks 26th.
Charlotte.com: Magazine sells NASCAR talent short
Supreme Court Bars Earnhardt Photos
December 11, 2003
By now, it’s probably common knowledge that the U. S. Supreme Court has slightly redeemed itself in the eyes of some race fans. They issued a non-decision a couple of weeks ago in which they declined to hear the appeals from the “student-run” newspaper at the University of Florida.
Racing pessimism
September 10, 2003
It seems that ever place we turn this season there is something that can be cited as foolish, counter-competitive, dangerous, or just plain annoying. NASCAR and its fist fighting drivers, F1 and its ridiculous tire controversy, IRL changing the rules mid-season so Sam Hornish can have another run at the championship, CART
Hornish to NASCAR?
July 6, 2003
I was just watching AutoWeek on Speed where they were discussing the rumored Chevy/Cosworth relationship. The topic of Sam Hornish’s future came up. His contract with Panther (who he won the IRL championship with the past two years) expires at the end of this season. I see no reason why Sam would stay with Panther should they continue to use Chevy power, and should Chevy continue to be an embarrassment….