Memory Lane Racing

My racecars are better than your racecars

Way back when at Hialeah Speedway, I remember talking to an old timer sitting beside us in the stands. It’s hard to judge age when you are in your mid teens; people 21 look old, never mind 30-something folks, they are positively ancient, ya’ know. On reflection over the years I think he was in

“Hey, it’s just one subscription, how could it matter….right?”

Back in the mid 60’s when I was a young teenager going to the races at Hollywood Speedway there was this old character who ambled through the stands and the pits as the night evolved. He was short, stocky, hard to tell his age, when your 14 everyone else usually looks either very old or

Back to the 70′s in more ways than one down in Florida

We took our annual pilgrimage to Daytona for Speedweeks this past February. How could we not? I have been going to Florida races in February since 1966. In fact, I have not missed a single year since then. Of course, it helps to be from the place! But even recently when we did our Pacific

Tough Guys

Race car drivers are a special breed, this we know. As has been mentioned, in some quarters they are knocked because of how ‘easy’ it all seems to be. Of course, we know this is not the case at all. While it may be called many things, blasting down Mulsanne straight at 3am at the

No Respect

Way back when, in a time when the only auto racing that ever appeared on your Television screen was shown on ABC’s Wide World of Sports, sandwiched in between the national Badminton championships and Sumo wrestling, I can still remember something that I heard on the local TV station. It was after the Indy 500,

Nascars real problems and solutions, part 2…the solutions

Its easy to criticize, all you need to do is turn on talk radio, or read a blog or two for that matter. Like many others, I have also criticized the countries largest and most important racing sanctioning body, Nascar. Having said that, unlike many, I have some possible solutions to some of the most

Nascar’s real problems and solutions, part 1

Before we go any further here, I want to congratulate Kevin Harvick and all the rest of Richard Childress racing for a well earned 2010 Sprint Cup Championship. As we all know, Harvick beat Jimmy Johnson by 285 points, talking the title from Jimmy Johnson, who won his second championship last year……..oh wait, none of

Nascar and the IRL might both need to look over their shoulders

The Indy car finale at Homestead Miami Speedway this past Saturday evening…or was that late afternoon, had everything this season had shown all year. Thrilling, wheel to wheel, side by side, nail biting, edge of your seat racing, spirited individual drives, and compelling drama. In other words, everything racing was meant to be. As an

Will Nascar ever stop pandering to the couch potatoes?

The now familiar sight of empty seats in the cup series has continued into the chase. But it was truly shocking to see the entire section of turn 3 seating naked for all the world to see. That’s in addition to the swaths of empties scattered throughout the stands at Dover recently . There is

What does Nascar think it is doing?

Its been fascinating to watch the gyrations of Nascar this season as they perform their version of moving heaven and earth to keep their worse nightmare from happening. And that would not be Danica saying she wants a career in Indy cars, where she has a chance of leaving a reasonable legacy, forgoing a back

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