NASCAR Hits The Wall With a Dull Thud
NASCAR was it. Stock car racing in America hit it’s peak sometime in the 90s, with stars, money, big new tracks, and even it’s own Tom Cruise movie in Days Of Thunder. It was...
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Jeff Gordon Says It’s His Final Championship Year in NASCAR
I have to use some careful wording when I say this, because Jeff Gordon was careful as well He’s not retiring. “I don’t want to use the R-work” he said. Rather, after a long...
Auto Racing On The Brink Of Extinction
For those of you who come to this blog often, you will know that I am both a big lover of auto racing, but also a pessimist when it comes to the future of...
NASCAR Bit By Cheating Scandal
Sometimes you just can’t get a break, that must be the feeling is NASCAR’s world headquarters these days. After a season full of odd situations, start and park drivers, and various forms of cheating...
Humpy Wheeler: Nascar is “too fancy”
If you know anything about the history of NASCAR, then you have probably heard more than a few stories about Humpy Wheeler. This guy has had a huge impact on NASCAR. He was the...
For NASCAR, Older May Not Be Better
In my poking around the other day, I ran across this article from ESPN talking about a real issue that faces NASCAR in the coming years: Their stars are getting grey around the temples,...
NASCAR Tries To Avoid Crash And Burn By Shedding Seats
A couple of years back, with Speed TV still had a decent chat board on their site, I was discussing with the locals how all those empty seats and covered up grandstands were bad...
NASCAR Blows It on Knaus Appeal and Bristol
I guess it should come as no surprise to most people in the know, but NASCAR once again has managed to make a laughing stock out of itself. The rescinding of suspensions and points...
NASCAR 2012 Looks Like More Of the Same
Well, the 2011 racing season is done, and the clock just struck 2012 everywhere. Well, everywhere except NASCAR land, where they continues to work on their 1960s inventions and machines, proudly being as ungreen...
It Only Took NASCAR 4 Races To Tank
2011 started on an up note for the NASCAR nation (or is that Napcar Nation?). Daytona was a weird race with two car drafts and all sorts of off stuff, and a surprise, nay,...
2011 Do or Die For NASCAR
As a long time racing fan, you sort of get use to the ebb and flow of racing series. They have good years, and they have bad years. The people running various racing series...
