Happy Hour: NASCAR Should Reconsider the 4 Cars Per Team Rule
At Darlington this past weekend, three of the top-five finishing cars were from Hendrick Motorsports. The other two got their engines from Hendrick. A part-time …
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Happy Hour: Tony Stewart is Making Me Look Like an Idiot – But Lesson Learned
One year ago Haas CNC Racing had already reached obscurity. Today its co-owner/driver Tony Stewart is third in the points standings.
Happy Hour: Carl Edwards Wasn’t Quite Right
When Carl Edwards said “I guess we’ll race like this until someone gets killed and then we’ll change it,” he was right about everything until the word “then”.
Happy Hour: Is NASCAR Seeing What’s Happening?
Long ago as a young lad, I worked for a department store you may have heard of called Caldor. I wasn’t the best employee – …
Happy Hour: Why We Don’t See as Much Emotion as We’d Like
I play in a fairly competitive but unofficial softball league. During a game last season while playing first base, I squatted and reached to my …
Happy Hour: Some Crazy Ideas for a New Superspeedway
In case you missed it, some weeks ago Happy Hour discussed how NASCAR can learn from baseball and build new venues designed to create better …
Happy Hour: Once & for All, the Reason Dale Earnhardt Jr. Isn’t Winning
Last week, the bubbling cauldron that is the motorsports media began to boil over once again, reaching a point where Dale Earnhardt Jr. publicly asserted …
Happy Hour: Travis Kvapil’s Situation is Sad – But It’s Reality
It’s a bummer to watch Travis Kvapil be out of a ride because of the harsh realities of motorsports. As I write this, and as …
Happy Hour: Solving NASCAR’s Racetrack Problem, Part 2 – Happy Hour Motor Speedway I, A New Short Track
In last week’s Happy Hour, I discussed baseball’s ballpark boom and how the place responsible for it all, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, changed the …
Happy Hour: Solving NASCAR’s Racetrack Problem, Part 1 – What NASCAR Can Learn From Baseball
One of the bigger beefs longtime fans of NASCAR have today is the unimaginative size, shape and location of too many of the current venues.