Beside the Rising Tide: Riding the Storm Out
A couple funny things happened this weekend. Cities and communities along the Mid-Atlantic coastline (AKA, the shore, though only in New Jersey) were not pulverized …
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Beside the Rising Tide: Summertime’s Done Come & Gone
While summer doesn’t officially end until Sept. 22, the Labor Day weekend coming up marks the unofficial end of summer in most of our minds, especially …
Beside the Rising Tide: The Rain’s A Pain Is Mainly What I’m Saying
With all due apologies to Sebastian Junger, last weekend might have offered up the perfect storm for gearheads. Going into the weekend, it all looked …
Beside The Rising Tide: Short Takes Before A Short Break
The Cup series takes an all-too-infrequent week off next weekend and I’m down for my annual “stay-cation”, the sort of summer holiday for folks who …
Beside the Rising Tide: See Ya Later
Digging farther into their seemingly bottomless bag of tricks NASCAR (at the behest of network overlords) has come up with their latest “can’t miss” trick …
Beside the Rising Tide: Busch-Whackers Part Deux
It’s not a new problem but it’s a perplexing one. How do we promote NASCAR’s AAA system (once Grand National, then Busch, Nationwide for six …
Beside the Rising Tide: Remembering Davey Allison Part 2
Editor’s Note: For Part One of Matt’s retrospective on Davey Allison, click here. Robert Yates Racing and the team’s talented young driver Davey Allison made …
Beside the Rising Tide: Remembering Davey Allison, Part 1
If there was ever a child born to be a race car driver, it was Davey Allison. If there was ever a race car driver who never forgot his roots, always taking a few moments to sign an autograph, answer a question or smile for a photo with a fan, it was Davey Allison.
And if there was ever a hero of the sport who left us too soon, it was Davey Allison.
Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR’s Summertime Blues
It’s this time of year interest in the sport of NASCAR racing tends to wane a bit. With the kids out of school, family vacations, …
Beside the Rising Tide: Brian France’s Flying Circus
Tick, tick, tick. Four times a year, the sport’s big kahunas cross their fingers and throw caution to the wind in the form of a …