Recent Posts Tagged With 'crew chief'

• Teams Already Tweaking Crews For Next Season

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 21:37 in new, development, team, changes, jackman, pit stop, pit crew, crew chief, gas man, over the wall, tire carrier, tire changer

  You may not realize it, but while the 2009 season still isn’t officially over yet, preparations for 2010 have already begun.  One area that teams will spend the last few races working on, is changes to their pit crews. To the untrained eye, it...

• Teams Need To Let Young Pit Crew Guys Make Mistakes

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 20:58 in confidence, experience, mistakes, jackman, pit crew, pit stops, crew chief, over the wall, tire carrier, tire changer

  I’m going to go on a rant here, so I apologize in advance, but this is something that has bothered me since I started as a tire changer.  When young guys finally get their first opportunities to jack, carry, and change they usually end up on T...

• Crew Guys Need More Exposure

  Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 21:55 in TV, NASCAR, media, crew, exposure, helmet cam, crew members, pit crew, in the shop, crew chief, over the wall, the business of nascar

  This post may end up sounding self serving, but hear me out first.  I think it’s time that NASCAR and the media partners start putting more of the spotlight on the faces behind the drivers.  If the fans knew some of the people that work in...

• Hey Penske, Why Not Just Release Tryson?

  Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 22:32 in kurt busch, martin truex jr., nascar news, roger penske, mwr, penske racing, crew chief, racing observations, pat tryson, jeff thousand

  Jenna Fryer at the AP first reported this weekend that Pat Tryson, crew chief for Kurt Busch has been effectively shut out of the Penske shop because of his announced defection to Michael Waltrip Racing next season. The story quotes Penske VP of Oper...

• How Do Guys Keep Failing These Drug Tests?

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 23:02 in crew, suspension, jeremy mayfield, drug testing, crew members, nascar news, crew chief, gary st. amant, dr. david black, failed drug test

  Maybe I’m giving people too much credit here, but I continue to be shocked by the fact that NASCAR has again busted more crew members with the new drug testing.  In case you missed it, they nabbed three more guys recently, including former A...

• Not Every Crew Guy Is Making $100K A Year

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 22:27 in compensation, lawsuit, bonus, salary, pay, mechanic, roush fenway racing, pit crew, in the shop, crew member, crew chief, over the wall

  Although that would be really nice, it just isn’t true.  There was a piece written by Dustin Long that came out on Monday that revealed some numbers about a specific crew member’s pay.  And while numbers like these are a reality for so...

• In NASCAR, Perception Isn’t Always Reality

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 01:37 in NASCAR, reality, people, driver, perception, jeremy mayfield, crew member, crew chief, racing observations, carl long

  People. Just like any other sport on this planet, the basis of NASCAR is the people involved.  The only real difference between NASCAR and other sports being the means in which the competition happens.  In one, it’s guys chasing around a w...

• Pressure, What Pressure?

  Posted on Sunday May 31st, 2009 at 22:34 in pressure, driver, pit stop, pit crew, crew chief, over the wall, tire changer, pit road

  The struggles of some teams on pit road this season have been well documented, as have some of the problems facing the crews this season with regard to some different rules and a shift in the competition.  With that you will often hear the TV peopl...

• Ask The Insiders Wednesday #21

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 00:02 in TV, Tires, souvenirs, midway, talladega, ray evernham, erik darnell, crew chief, ask the insiders, lug nuts, todd parrott, penkse

  It has certainly been a strange week leading up to edition #21.  We saw Brad Keselowski triumph in a Cup race, Mike Skinner win a rain shortened race on a Monday, and we lost a pillar of the sport in David Poole.  Night racing at Richmond awaits ...

• Team Radio Traffic Should Be Beyond Reproach

  Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 01:28 in Radio, communication, NASCAR, driver, scanner, kurt busch, nascar news, roger penske, crew chief, over the wall, racing observations, nascar at the track

  So Kurt Busch got mad about his racecar at Martinsville and called Roger Penske “dude” on the radio.  Who cares?  Sometimes that kind of stuff happens on the radio.  And you know what?  It’s perfectly, 100% okay that it does. B...