Month: June 2008

As strong as Junior was running on the track, and in the points all season, it was only going to be a matter of time before he brought home his first Hendricks’ points victory. While he may have done it on fumes this time, it certainly is consistent with

I wrote a blog post on Fastmachines.com lately, and one of the points that I had made involved Mike Joy (the play-by-play man on the Fox NASCAR broadcasts on Sundays) calling Tony Stewart’s Home Depot team “Big Orange”.  I had made a comment that he should not have done that …

No, Effingham is not the new swear word all the kids are using, and it’s not what you eat on Thanksgiving when you run out of turkey.

I recently had a conversation with a couple of newly found friends at a local bar.  NASCAR was on the TV and it was very apparent that my attention was drawn to the boob tube, watching my sport’s heroes chasing each other to the finish line.  One of the guys …

I recently had a conversation with a couple of newly found friends at a local bar.  NASCAR was on the TV and it was very apparent that my attention was drawn to the boob tube, watching my sport’s heroes chasing each other to the finish line.  One of the guys …

I wrote a blog post on Fastmachines.com lately, and one of the points that I had made involved Mike Joy (the play-by-play man on the Fox NASCAR broadcasts on Sundays) calling Tony Stewart’s Home Depot team “Big Orange”.  I had made a comment that he should not have done that …

As strong as Junior was running on the track, and in the points all season, it was only going to be a matter of time before he brought home his first Hendricks’ points victory. While he may have done it on fumes this time, it certainly is consistent with

A number of news outlets today ran an article about Chip Ganassi’s domination of the Indy Car and Grand Am series. The headline: “Ganassi teams dominating 2 open-wheel series”. Wow, since when was Grand Am considered “open wheel racing”? The last time I was blinded by …

I’m a poet, didn’t you know it?

My colleague (if bloggers can truly have colleagues, we’re a strange bunch who don’t shower often enough to have colleagues) here at FastMachines, Ray Champagne recently asked the question of whether or not motor racing is a sport. Ray came to the conclusion …

Is NASCAR stealing away another one? Paul Tracy, one of the most colorful and outspoken characters in the world of open-wheel racing is headed to the Craftsman Truck Series. Robin Miller wrote about the situation on SpeedTV.com and also mentioned that Tracy is trying to put together …