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Couch Potato NASCAR Fans 20 Mar 2011 | 02:02 am
I watched Dave Despain's Wind Tunnel last week and caught a few comments about whether NASCAR should focus on being a real sport for the ticket-buying fans or entertainment for television, and whether...
Selling Cars and NASCAR Fans 29 Oct 2010 | 11:38 am
Opening Lap Win on Sunday, sell on Monday is dead, right? Weakened by parity, mortally wounded by the common template, and finally killed off by the Car of Tomorrow? True, the old method of pro...
ARCA Edition: The Sum of the Parts is a Championship for Patrick Sheltra 16 Oct 2010 | 07:00 am
First, the obvious (in case you haven't heard): Patrick Sheltra is the 2010 ARCA Racing Series Champion. Woohoo! Then, the less well known: I am a Patrick Sheltra fan. Of course, I should say th.....
The Intersection of NASCAR and Hockey 11 Sep 2010 | 04:13 am
Rookie camps start today in the NHL, while NASCAR is in Richmond preparing to finalize the Chase for the Sprint Cup field tomorrow. It's gotten me thinking about a topic where NASCAR could learn from...
Budweiser, Momentum, and a Ford Guy 26 Aug 2010 | 02:25 pm
Sponsor Tent I have some mixed feelings about Budweiser's sponsorship of Kevin Harvick's #29 car starting next year. The big red logo is a blue chip sponsor in the world of stock car racing, havi...
Keselowskis, Johnsons, and the Schedule 28 Jul 2010 | 10:04 am
Scheduled Events There's some hubbub around Jay Hart on Yahoo! saying that NASCAR needed to "get out of the NFL's way." What he specifically said is that, "...there is no answer as long as the Ch...
Dale Earnhardt's Legacy was in Victory Lane This July 18 Jul 2010 | 07:00 am
Four wins in the past two weeks have been the indirect result of Dale Earnhardt's actions nearly a decade ago... The racing world lost Dale Earnhardt nine and a half years ago. Nearly a decade la...
2011 NASCAR Hall of Fame Nominees 12 Jul 2010 | 07:00 am
Comment on this article at http://www.carsandracingstuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=4518 (registration required) This is commentary on three of the nominees for the 2011 NASCAR Hall of Fame class...
Chevy Dominance and Gordon's Goof 6 Aug 2007 | 07:00 am
Tech Inspection NASCAR, over the last 10+ years, has been elusively chasing manufacturer parity, the idea that no matter whether you ran Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, Pontiac or Ford, it would come down t...
MWR's Future, The Stewart Storm, and My Own Personal Sponsor Troubles 2 Aug 2007 | 07:00 am
Qualifying Coming into the 2007 season with about 50 teams competing for 43 spots, I had thought it just a matter of time before the slower teams lost sponsors, ran out of money and stayed home, e...
