Promotion. In most forms, realms or types – whether it be sports, or movies or products – is almost always laced in some way with exaggeration. And for the most part, consumers are willing to understand and live with that fact. Then there comes a time when exaggeration crosses the line into full blown fairy [...]
“Remember when … ” It’s a familiar mantra to anyone who spends any amount of time around short track racing. “Remember when the grandstands were overflowing?” “Remember when the purses were huge?” “Remember how many cars showed up to race?” At Stafford Motor Speedway they like to call their Spring Sizzler “The Greatest Race in [...]
Another edition of RaceDayCT.com’s semi-regular concoction, brewed of the meatiest newsworthy items, opinions and meaningless meanderings down some paths that might not have anything to do with racing. Strap in for the ride. Just waiting for the Papal Conclave to call us and tell us it’s go time for Pope Giggity I …. – A [...]
Denny Hamlin could have got out of his car Sunday following the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Subway Fresh Fit 500 and told reporters on hand that the sky was blue and it would have been no different than what he actually said that day. If he had said the sky was blue, those absorbing that [...]
Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. In the realm of North American speedways, they are the big boys, the twin towers of motorsports. Where bigger is better comes to life. And they are also living dinosaurs. Relics of a time in stock car racing when horsepower was still relatively contained and aerodynamic technology hadn’t turned [...]
It was supposed to be an event that would put short track racing’s best on NASCAR’s biggest stage and open the eyes of viewers on Speed to how good grassroots motorsports competition could be. It was supposed to be. NASCAR’s inaugural Battle at the Beach certainly opened eyes, but hardly for its events’ resemblance to [...]
They arrived at Daytona International Speedway this week from their various weekly racing outposts, wide-eyed surely by the magnitude of the stage they were being welcomed to race on. There they were, the drivers making up the field of Monday’s 150-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series event at the inaugural Battle at the Beach – far [...]
It was a story from 2012 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion Doug Coby on the day he won his first title that illustrated almost perfectly the way many around the series looked at the five years of Chad Little’s reign as the series’ director. Still basking in the immediate glow of just capturing his first [...]
There’s crazy in the moment and then there’s just plain insanity. Crazy in the moment is finally loosing it and pulling the pin. Just doing something simply idiotic because one’s temper drives them over the edge. Then there’s insane. Insane is doing something maniacal and idiotic and then trying to rationalize it. Trying to explain [...]
“Saving money never hurt so bad.” Those were the words of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour series director Chad Little on July 19. Little was responding to concerns about a Spec motor program with the Whelen Modified Tour that has sparked an explosion of anger across the landscape of the division since the running of the [...]
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