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Archive for July, 2008

Stewart-Haas Acquires Ryan Newman

ESPN has announced that Ryan Newman has reached an agreement with Stewart-Haas Racing to fill the second spot on that team for 2009. The Indiana native will join his fellow Indiana boy Tony Stewart as teammates…

Indy Chairman Tells NASCAR It’s Their Problem

Indianapolis Motor Speedway track chairman Tony George said Tuesday in an interview in The Indianapolis Star that the track surface is not to blame for last Sunday’s race fiasco…

The Competition Caution 400 (formerly known as the Brickyard 400)

Now that the tire dust has finally settled from yesterday’s race, let’s look at what I feel was the biggest damage done to the sport of Cup racing, sacrificing driver safety for the goodwill of the fans. That NASCAR had to resort to bringing out 6 competition cautions due to tire issues was a shame and I expect Chris covered that issue with his article. However, my thoughts are that if NASCAR was bringing out the competition cautions due to safety issues, then they should have expanded on that by not changing the field during the pit stops…

Tires Steal Show at 15th Running of Brickyard

This year the true story is the Goodyear tires. With NASCAR having to throw that many competition cautions in one race is pretty ridiculous. 30+ laps of fuel and only 15-19 laps on their tires made this year’s event pretty bad…

Andy Petree’s Comments at the Brickyard 400

Dr. Jerry Punch announced with about 30 some odd laps left that NASCAR had issued each team an additional 2 sets of tires on top of the ones already issued. He put a blanket statement out asking the resident crew chief Andy Petree, what do they do with the two additional sets with two pit stops left…

Johnson Kisses the Bricks, Horrible Race

Jimmie Johnson became the second person to win the Brickyard 400 from the pole, but that was one of the worst races I have ever seen. I know that Goodyear and NASCAR was doing their best, but let’s face it, that many competition cautions in one race is ridiculous. I don’t want to discredit Johnson for his performance, because he was consistently one of the best racers on the track today, but I have to wonder what the result would have been if there had been a better playing field with the tire situation.