Pace Laps: Tire Problems, Harvick’s Nationwide Win and Busch Fails Inspection
Did you miss an event during this busy week in racing? How about a late-night press release, an important sponsorship rumor, or a juicy piece …
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Happiness Is…Thursday Night Racing, Sand, and Houston
Happiness Is usually prattles on about some kind of something or other to open each column. It’s an opportunity to hit on something that might …
Happiness Is… Jimmie Johnson, Road Courses & More Road Courses
Angriness Is, brother to Happiness Is, sent a text after the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ Michigan race last weekend that summed up everything in a …
IndyCar, Quiet But Still There
There’s little in the way of news for IndyCar this week. Heck, there’s been little in the way of news for a few weeks now. …
Happiness Is… Car Counts, Pocono & ‘1’
Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If anyone saw last year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, they’ll understand that …
Happiness Is… Isle of Man Time Trials, Pocono(?) and Maple Syrup
The season is over; everyone can start testing for next year. Now that Jimmie Johnson has won the last two races, there’s a prevailing feeling …
Happiness Is… Comics, Geeks and a Prelude to a Big Weekend
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season is 11 races old, nearly a third done already. So it’s worth mentioning that this stretch is the latest Jimmie Johnson …
Grand Prix of Indianapolis: Pagenaud ekes one out after a rough start to the race
Grand Prix of Indianapolis In a Nutshell: Simon Pagenaud and his team worked fuel and pit strategy better than any other team. After the wreck to start …
Happiness Is… Cornucopia, The Draft & Congress
Happiness Is is more than happy to put that lackluster display of racing, aka Talladega, down to memory. While the continued goal here is to find …
Open Wheel Wednesday: Good for Indy
This column is about the inevitable, wonderful, frightening, confusing concept of change. Simple definitions for change use words like alter, modify, or become transformed. Those …