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The NASCAR Week That Was: Dec. 6-12
Between Danica, Kyle and Kevin, this week could be called the week of the announcement. On Monday, Danica Patrick along with JR Motorsports GM Kelley Earnhardt and GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons announced Patrick’s foray into NASCAR beginning next...
A Points Update and The Off-Season Plan For TNI
As promised here is an update of the points under the old points system. If you didn’t catch it, I wrote a post the other day about it. 1. #48 Jimmie Johnson, 5156 2. #24-Jeff Gordon, 5090, -66 3. #14-Tony Stewart, 5085, -71 4. #11-Denny Hamlin...
The State of TNI
I know it’s Monday and you’re probably expecting a post, sorry, but we wanted to ask you, our loyal readers, some questions. Don’t worry it’s nothing too difficult, we just want to know how we’re doing, and what you like...
Why Not Try a Lower Series?
As NASCAR has struggled through the last year, and teams have closed up shop leaving drivers without a ride, I had to ask myself why more out of work drivers didn’t make the jump to a lower series? At the risk of alienating people, I’ll...
What Do Two 19-Year-Olds, Tony Stewart, Hendrick and ‘Crash Gate’ Have In Common?
…nothing other than they’re all in my weekend notes (lame I know). Saturday was a good day to be 19. Well a good day to be 19 if you happened to drive in the Nationwide Series. In his first career NASCAR appearance on Saturday, 19-year-ol...
Why Are You So Mad?
Over the last few weeks the emails and comments from our readers have taken a decidedly negative turn. We’ve certainly had more comments and emails then ever before, which is great, it just seems that many of you are very, very angry about ...
The Sad Demise of American Open Wheel Racing
On the eve of the biggest motorsports weekend of the year I can’t help but reflect on what Indy Racing once was and could have been. *I know this is the NASCAR Insiders, but I want to talk about this.* I have watched some of the coverage from I...
Still Things To Do In Charlotte During Race Weeks
One week down and one week still left to go. There is still a lot of stuff to do in Charlotte and we here at the Nascar Insiders want you to be prepared. As I said last week, if you know of any racing related events going on during the next two weeks...
The Pit Crew Challenge Is Seriously Underrated
So in case you don’t happen to follow us on Twitter, both Journo and myself were at Time Warner Cable Arena tonight for the Sprint Pit Crew Challenge. We invited anyone who spotted us to come up and say hi. Shockingly, we had no takers. Thi...
The Passing of David Poole
I can’t tell you how shocked I was when I heard earlier this afternoon David Poole had died. It is hard to imagine the NASCAR media without him. He will truly be missed. I will write more about Poole this evening, but in the mean time I want...
TheNASCARInsiders.com: One Year In The Books
I can’t believe it. Today, April 9th, 2009 is the first birthday for TNI. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were putting our first couple of posts up and hoping that a few folks would somehow find us and stop by. Now, one year l...
More EGR Layoffs Following #8 Car Shut Down
Word leaked today from Earnhardt Ganassi Racing that the #8 car was shut down until further notice. Team officials are keeping mum on the move, but the team has lacked full time sponsorship since the season began. Team President Steve Lauletta said e...
April Fools “Joke” Tasteless
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...
How To Keep Up With Everything Insiders
Thanks to you The NASCAR Insiders has been growing very quickly. New folks are stopping by everyday to see what TNI is all about. For newer people that maybe don’t know, keeping track of what goes on here can be done in a variety of diff...
Start And Park Teams Aren’t Ruining NASCAR
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...
