Posted in Formula One on Apr 26th, 2007 No Comments »
David Richards, the former Benetton and BAR team principal who returns to the sport next year with his own Prodrive team, has hinted that Aston Martin could enter Formula One in five years’ time.
In the sport’s hey day in the sixties, all the major F1 teams except for Ferrari were English. Today, only McLaren and […]
Posted in Formula One, NASCAR, Open Wheel on Apr 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Based on ratings reported in SportBusiness news, TV audience ratings for the ‘Big Five’ European markets France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the UK shows that despite broadcasting live at ‘unfriendly’ European times, the three races so far this season have rating any US series would kill for . . . even NASCAR. Qualifying continued to […]
Posted in NASCAR on Apr 24th, 2007 No Comments »
This week a US District Court in Atlanta is hearing the dispute that has pitted one of NASCAR’s most respected team owners and AT&T against one of its biggest revenue sources, Nextel. AT&T alleges NASCAR has violated the company’s right to sponsor Jeff Burton’s #31 racecar.
NASCAR rejected the plan to introduce the AT&T name instead […]
Posted in NASCAR on Apr 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Nextel Cup drivers have heaped abuse on the much maligned COT project car, but it appears that the griping is mainly due to it being different. Some crew chiefs are learning the tricks. When the same brand cars with the same engines qualify and run at both ends of the pack, that’s a pretty good […]
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Apr 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
The organizers managed to create a fairly wide but extremely short course around their sports complex, but that width benefit was negated by some tight turns. These were to the detriment of the series main drawing card, the all conquering Audis, now with extremely effiecient diesel engines.
Timo Bernhard gave the LMP2 Penske Porsches a hard-earned […]
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Apr 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Images from the 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach American Le Mans Race.
Posted in NASCAR on Apr 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I’m starting a rumor. Michael Waltrip is stepping out of the #55 Toyota and his replacement . . . Big Brother Darrell !!!
Actually, when I heard the rumors about putting Bill Elliott in the car, I just started doing some humorous “what-iffing,” throwing together some wild and crazy April Fool type scenarios. But the […]
Posted in Formula One, NASCAR on Apr 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I’m not going pull any punches about bad programming. Somehow the execs at SPEED TV and ESPN have convinced themselves that all they have to do is put NASCAR in the title of a program and viewers will tune in with a lemming-like mindlessness.
Sorry. We’re smarter than that!
Thank goodness some programs break the mold […]
Posted in NASCAR on Apr 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Sometime in the seventies, folks found there was as much or more money in racing merchandise than there was in racing! And as things developed, there was no one in US racing more lucrative than Dale Earnhardt.
As we went into the nineties, not only pictures and apparel but models became the thing. But how many […]
Posted in NASCAR on Apr 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been less than enchanted by Rusty Wallace’s brand of announcing. But, I’m tolerant, taking a wait and see attitude to see if he improves as he hits his stride.
Yeah, he was a fish out of water last year doing Indy announcing, and I could forgive him for nervously babbling too much about how good […]