Category: Sports

“You can’t win a pissing contest with a skunk.”
Richard Childress 25 September 2010

Sprint Cup practice was eventful today as Kevin Harvick ran into Denny Hamlin on the track a few times causing a bit of damage on the right front and rear of Hamlin’s car. When both drivers were called to the garage by NASCAR a war of words ensued between crew chiefs, drivers, and various members of both teams which resulted in Director of Competition John Darby and other NASCAR officials stepping in. It is believed the incident was sparked by comments made by Hamlin during yesterday’s press conferences. Hamlin had a lot to say about Clint Bowyer’s 33 Team’s penalties for failing post-race inspection last week. While it appeared all of the drivers were asked about the incident, Denny’s response seemed the most provocative. Continue reading “2010 Fall Dover Saturday”

Atlanta Motor Speedway. Labor Day 2010. Blue skies, temperature in the mid 80s with a cool breeze wafting across the vast expanse of track, grandstands, parking and camping areas. What a lovely day for a race!

Since it has been announced that Atlanta will no longer host two NASCAR races per season the Labor Day Race is now, not only the last summer party weekend of the year, it is also the ultimate event for Georgia (Alabama and Tennessee) NASCAR fans. It seems NASCAR couldn’t figure out that race attendance might be low if people never knew if it would be snowy, hot, cold, rainy, tornadic, or a all of the above on race day and decided to cut the Spring race from the Sprint Cup schedule. I don’t know why the idea of moving it a bit farther down in the schedule didn’t register – but, I’m pretty sure Bruton Smith paid enough money to cause the NASCAR powers-that-be to avoid using reason in determining the 2011 schedule. Continue reading “Fall 2010 Atlanta”

Austin Dillon, grandson of Richard Childress, dominated the Camping World Truck Race in Iowa, starting on the pole and taking the checkered flag in his first career Truck Series win. Dillon had to survive a green-white-checkered finish after a caution was thrown just before the white flag lap for debris from Jason White’s truck. RC was at the race having flown from Chicago.

Baby J (Baby Girl Johnson) has a name! The couple who can’t decide where to have dinner on an off-night, tweeted the decision to world. Her name: Genevieve Marie Johnson. Continue reading “Sunday, post Chicago, pre Off-Week”