Holding a Pretty Wheel: The Rise & Fall of UPS in NASCAR – & Who They Took Down With Them
In 2001, UPS got greedy when they ponied up a huge amount to sponsor the No. 88, abandoning a small team with whom they nearly reached an agreement.
In 2001, UPS got greedy when they ponied up a huge amount to sponsor the No. 88, abandoning a small team with whom they nearly reached an agreement.
When the announcement was made at Atlanta, the whole idea seemed like a side show: a Bandolero race for the wives and girlfriends of NASCAR stars
Blake Koch races his for his mom, Angie, who has survived two bouts of breast cancer.
Did you stand up and cheer on Saturday night (Oct. 15) when Jimmie Johnson got loose racing Ryan Newman, slamming the outside retaining wall?
CONCORD, N.C. – The rumor mill was churning in Charlotte, and at the center of the storm on Friday was the No. 22 team.
Just like that classic car, it’s worth restoring the Nationwide Series because underneath the tarnished exterior is something worth saving.
Poaching sponsors is nothing new, but there’s something that just smacks of entitlement and greed when a Cup team woos a sponsor away from an independent.
Casey Atwood is the poster child for being thrown into the limelight too early, and then tossed away when things don’t go right.
It can’t go on like this.
Something must be done.
It’s ruining our sport.
These are some of the things being said around the garage and in the grandstands about a practice that has popped up in NASCAR in the past few seasons: starting the race and parking the car early, claiming some phantom issue, and collecting the prize money for a finish that is usually somewhere between 35th and 43rd place.
As much as fuel mileage can play the hero or the spoiler for any given race, though, it should never be the deciding factor in a championship.
how far is too far, in general, for teamwork? What does it mean to take one for the team and what crosses a line?
At a time when it seems NASCAR has turned a deaf ear to the pleas of fans, on Rockingham, they listened. And now it’s up to you.
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