Recent Posts Tagged With 'Economy'

• The Best And Worst Of NASCAR In 2009

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 21:34 in Economy, gm, ratings, juan pablo montoya, chrysler, jimmie johnson, jeremy mayfield, 2009, david reutimann, marcos ambrose, hendrick motorsports, racing observations

  For those of you who follow us on Twitter, you know every Monday we do a ‘best and worst’ of the weekend tweet. With the 2009 season now in the bag, we thought it might be fun to bring it over to the blog and ask you to do your best and w...

• Why Cost Saving Measures Don’t Matter

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 22:27 in budget, Economy, savings, testing, rules, costs, research and development, truck series, cot, nationwide series, the business of nascar, racing observations

  Doesn’t it seem lately that many of the moves made by NASCAR have dollar signs attached to them in terms of the teams?  Let me briefly give you a few examples: Why develop the COT?  Safety and cost savings.  Why only allow five over the wall...

• Young Drivers Trying To Weather Economic Storm

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 21:27 in Economy, sponsorship, driver, nationwide series, kevin hamlin, kelly bires, bryan clauson, cale gale, driver development, chase miller, landon cassill, willie allen

  Recently here at TNI, you’ve seen us profile a few young drivers and some driver development programs.  It seems that because of some of the topics dominating the current headlines that the young, upstart drivers often have their stories ...

• Hard Times for NCWTS Sponsorships

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 06:26 in NASCAR, Economy, sponsor, purse, sponsorship, truck series, mike skinner, johnny benson, todd bodine, the business of nascar, germain racing, nascar sponsorship

  Sponsorship, or lack thereof has been on the mind of just about every team executive in NASCAR this season. While the year has been rough for the sponsorship market as a whole, in no place has it hit harder then in the Truck Series. The biggest anoma...

• NASCAR’s Perception Problem

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 22:04 in Marketing, NASCAR, NHL, Economy, mlb, nfl, attendance, versus, perception, indy racing league, nielsen, tbr

  I think I should probably just start a problem series. I have been writing about it a lot lately. But I digress… At the beginning of the season many in the media would have had you believing the world was crashing in on us. They were predicting...

• Politics Is NASCAR’s Problem

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 00:02 in politics, NASCAR, Economy, cot, chip ganassi, the business of nascar, racing observations, casual fans, avid fans, race length

  I have been thinking this week a lot about ways to improve NASCAR. I’m sure you have too. This is something NASCAR is also doing as their avid fans soften and their casual fans are starting to walk away (in research NASCAR classifies fans as av...

• Some Of The Little Guys Are Starting To Fade

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 22:08 in Economy, jeremy mayfield, evander holyfield, j.j. yeley, mike skinner, nascar news, david gilliland, nationwide series, scott riggs, patrick carpentier, david green, joe nemecheck

  At the start of 2009, the outlook for NASCAR and its teams was bleak.  The economy was tanking and people were talking about the possibility of less then 43 cars showing up at California and beyond.  Then a funny thing happened.  Where team contra...

• April Fools “Joke” Tasteless

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 21:25 in Economy, miscellaneous, detroit, gm, april fools, chrysler, car and driver, prank, president obama

  Off and on for most of my life I have had a subscription to Car and Driver. It was always a publication I respected and enjoyed. So when T.C. called me Tuesday evening to tell me about the article (editorial) they had written (I’m sure you have...

• Start And Park Teams Aren’t Ruining NASCAR

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 00:00 in Economy, miscellaneous, tbr, nascar news, phil parsons, racing observations, nascar week that was, msrp motorsports, start-and-park, tommy baldwin racing, prism motorsports, jeremy mayfield motorsports

  Are you getting sick of the start and park discussion? If you said yes then I’m on board with you. But before we call it quits I figured I would write one more post about it. Last August TC wrote a post on the matter; at the time it was somethi...