Beside the Rising Tide: WTF(OX)
NASCAR’s Cup series took an all-too-rare weekend off this week. The timing seems a bit awkward to me in that I seem to recall the …
Beside the Rising Tide
Beside the Rising Tide: NASCAR Making Up Rules As They Go
I have a face I can not show, I make the rules up as I go….. -Sheryl Crow- Perhaps the inestimable Ms. Crow isn’t the …
Beside the Rising Tide: Better SAFER Than Sorry
In the wake of an eventful and violent Sprint Cup practice session on Friday, there was quite a hullabaloo over portions of Dover International Speedway …
Beside the Rising Tide: Your Regularly Scheduled Program
Thursday, NASCAR released 2017 schedules for its top 3 touring divisions: Some New Sponsor That Hasn’t Signed On Yet Cup Series, the XFINITY Series and the …
Beside the Rising Tide: There’s Nothing New Under the Sun
One of the few benefits of getting older is a hard won acceptance that some things just are as they are. That’s not always such …
Beside the Rising Tide: Fine, Be That Way
Thursday, most fans of the sport were delighted to hear that three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart had recovered well enough from a back injury …
Beside the Rising Tide: In the Heat of the Moment
Those of us who grew up attending races at the dirt and asphalt bull-rings peppered around the country had great expectations concerning Saturday’s XFINITY Series race. …
Beside the Rising Tide: It’s Always Something
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Since all NASCAR races are run out of doors, sometimes it’s going to rain. It’s just unfortunate it …
Beside the Rising Tide: Taking One for the Team
While only the driver’s name goes on the trophy NASCAR is and always has been a team sport. With rare exceptions over the last sixty …
Beside the Rising Tide: Busch’s Radio Nowhere
This is Radio Nowhere Is there anyone alive out there…. Something odd, almost unprecedented as of late, actually happened Saturday at Fontana. Kyle Busch was …