Beside the Rising Tide: Roll With NASCAR Changes
NASCAR had already announced some changes to the sport prior to next season. This week, it released more potential changes for 2022 and beyond, and …
Beside the Rising Tide
Beside the Rising Tide: Flying Jets in a Gymnasium
A long time ago, in days of yore, Kyle Petty once compared racing NASCAR Cup Series cars at Bristol Motor Speedway to flying jet fighters …
Beside the Rising Tide: Tap Dancing in a Minefield
As hard as it is to fathom with much of the nation in the maws of record heat, or in the case of the west …
Beside the Rising Tide: Born Under a Bad Sign
Let me start by admitting I can write everything I know about designing a racetrack on the head of a pin with a Sharpie magic …
Beside the Rising Tide: Short Takes After a Couple Weeks’ Break
OK. I get it, or at least this break helped me recall the allure of a summer vacation. It’s been a long time since I …
Beside the Rising Tide: Warning, Warning, Extreme Danger
If you ended up ignoring the sport of stock car racing even a few hours this week (and I highly recommend you do so occasionally), …
Beside the Rising Tide: Random Notes & Reckless Abandon
Friday night’s (July 9) NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race had a somewhat slapdash jury-rigged feel to it even before the racing commenced. Nope, they …
Beside the Rising Tide: Was That a Good Race?
All right then. Was that a good race? Well, in this instance since this is being written several hours before the Road America race is …
Beside the Rising Tide: Setting the Record Straight
Something unusual happened in these parts Saturday afternoon (June 26): NASCAR held a race and Kyle Larson did not win. Officially, Larson was going for …
Beside the Rising Tide: And Then There Were 9
With Nashville solidly in the rearview mirror there are now just nine Cup races left in the “regular season” prior to NASCAR’s “all-singing, all-dancing, all–live, …