MPM2Nite: Not Invented Here
The IndyCar folks stole a page from NASCAR’s playbook, seeing how popular our double-file restarts are and adopting a similar strategy to their series for 2011.
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Holding a Pretty Wheel: Cali-bore-ya or Sunshine Superspeedway? Some (Sort Of) Good Things About SoCal’s Racing
Southern California has contributed to NASCAR quite admirably. Most notable of late, the area has given the sport five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson.
Potts’s Shots: “Snaking” Around Questions Like NASCAR Front Ends & More
Q: Are the front clips of [NASCAR] Cup cars all the same, with different decals? Do you know of a website that shows them side by side?
Mirror Driving: Time to Kill Phoenix Repave & Can Millions Make a Difference?
Phoenix will begin a repaving process this week, which includes changes to the banking and the dogleg on the backstretch. But are these changes necessary?
No Bull: IndyCar & Their $5 Million. Will Anyone Take the Bait?
IndyCar is proposing a $5 million bonus to any non-IndyCar regular driver who wins the IZOD IndyCar World Championships race at Las Vegas.
Potts’s Shots: Remembering Smokey’s Sidecar Experiment
On one of the sites I frequent each day, somebody posted a photo of Smokey Yunick’s “sidecar” that he showed up with at Indianapolis in the ’60s.
Legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway Announcer Tom Carnegie Passes at 91
Anyone who attended the Indianapolis 500 from 1946 through 2006 was able to listen to the dulcet tones of Tom Carnegie on the public address system.
Talking NASCAR TV: 2011 Preview of What You’ll See
Ray Evernham, who worked part-time as an analyst in the broadcast booth and on NASCAR Now, has left the network to take a job with Hendrick Motorsports.
Holding a Pretty Wheel: Racing’s Elite Owner Is Probably Not Who You Think
The real elite owner in racing isn’t named Hendrick or Roush or Gibbs, or even Penske. It’s Chip Ganassi.
Dollars & Sense: Ganassi Racing & the “Value” of Creating “Value”
To be on top of the game in today’s day and age, one must eat, sleep and breathe racing. That is exactly what this organization has in Chip Ganassi.