Beside the Rising Tide: Inventive Incentive
Despite NASCAR’s off week last weekend, many fairly significant stories broke during what’s normally a quiet time in the sport. Completely unexpectedly, NASCAR released the …
Beside the Rising Tide
Besides The Rising Tide: 25 Years Later, Alan Kulwicki Remembered
Editor’s Note: Sunday (April 1) marked 25 years since Alan Kulwicki, the 1992 Winston Cup champion died in a plane crash en route to Bristol, …
Beside the Rising Tide: It’s Snow Fun
I’m not going to blame NASCAR for making it snow this weekend in Southern Virginia. The sanctioning body can only respond to the weather, not …
Beside the Rising Tide: March Mindlessness
It’s not the sort of racing that originally attracted me to motorsports, but every year I am engaged in a race of my own. It’s …
Beside the Rising Tide: The Citizens’ Inspection Corps
Like it or not (and I decidedly do not), the expectation of privacy outside of one’s home is about as reasonable and up-to-date as the …
Beside the Rising Tide: For Want of a Hot Dog
While I’m still knocking off the last of the rust and cobwebs after a long offseason, I’m slowly but surely I’m readjusting to the old …
Beside the Rising Tide: First Among Equals
In what has to be considered at least a minor miracle, not only did NASCAR get Sunday’s Cup race in, it managed to sneak the …
Beside the Rising Tide: That’s Just The Way it Is
That’s just the way it is Some things will never change That’s just the way it is Ah, but don’t you believe them –Bruce Hornsby …
Beside the Rising Tide: Ch-Ch-Changes in NASCAR
Speedweeks 2018 is upon us. A lot of NASCAR fans, even once ardent supporters, tend to take the offseason well, off, to celebrate the holidays …
Beside the Rising Tide: Post-Super Bowl NASCAR Tidbits
A Rose by Any Other Name Sometimes, it seems NASCAR is just setting themselves up to be ridiculed on purpose. They’ll announce something that leaves …