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NASCAR, one way or other, got some of what it wanted and not a lot elsewhere in Sunday’s 50th…]]> NASCAR, one way or other, got some of what it wanted and not a lot elsewhere in Sunday’s 50th Daytona 500, which was promoted as epochal. Simply being the 50th was enough of a tag in many ways.… 2008-02-19T13:51:00-0500 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/blake_when_they_is_us/ 600525
Bill France told me once that “a healthy open-wheel series is good for racing, good for NASCAR.”…]]> Bill France told me once that “a healthy open-wheel series is good for racing, good for NASCAR.” I hadn’t thought of it that way before – the big motorsport picture always had been… 2007-10-08T19:00:00-0400 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/blake_thinking_inside_the_box/ 604770
NASCAR’s “Car of Tomorrow” is something like climate change or global warming. You…]]> NASCAR’s “Car of Tomorrow” is something like climate change or global warming. You can use the data to draw any conclusion you want, and obviously, NASCAR wants you to draw the conclusion… 2007-09-05T19:00:00-0400 169310 609940
I don’t know how many of you went to East St. Louis Saturday � not many people do �…]]> I don’t know how many of you went to East St. Louis Saturday � not many people do � but I watched the well-attended Busch Series race on TV. Reed Sorenson, who sets records for… 2007-07-22T19:00:00-0400 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/blake_bill_frances_practical_vision/ 616300
William Clifton France wasn’t a “junior” – his father, of course, was William Henry…]]> William Clifton France wasn’t a “junior” – his father, of course, was William Henry Getty France, “Big Bill”, the founder of NASCAR. Yet, as callow older son of the 6-foot-5… 2007-06-04T19:00:00-0400 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/blake_just_hitting_their_stride/ 619355
In the 1950s and 1960s, the New York Yankees won the American League in all but two seasons, and the…]]> In the 1950s and 1960s, the New York Yankees won the American League in all but two seasons, and the public cried for someone, somehow, to “break up the Yankees.” They were just too good for… 2007-05-06T19:00:00-0400 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/blake_showdown_avoided/ 620225
NASCAR “wouldn’t want to speculate” about whats and ifs in the aftermath of driver…]]> NASCAR “wouldn’t want to speculate” about whats and ifs in the aftermath of driver Tony Stewart’s $10,000 fine and probation, announced Friday. NASCAR vp Jim Hunter said so as he… 2007-04-26T19:00:00-0400 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/special_robert_yates_calculated_gamble/ 621380
We need to correct a common impression: David Gilliland’s win in the Busch race last summer…]]> We need to correct a common impression: David Gilliland’s win in the Busch race last summer at Kentucky was not a one-shot, go-for-broke effort. “We didn’t go in with that… 2007-04-15T19:00:00-0400 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/blake_soft_impressions/ 623635
What impressed me most Sunday about NASCAR’s car-of-whatever-day-it-is was…]]> What impressed me most Sunday about NASCAR’s car-of-whatever-day-it-is was that it didn’t impress me at all, one way or the other, good or bad. That said, you can put… 2007-03-25T19:00:00-0400 169310 http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/blake_franchise_players/ 624070
This year’s overcrowded Nextel Cup entry lists, with a half-dozen name drivers, name sponsors…]]> This year’s overcrowded Nextel Cup entry lists, with a half-dozen name drivers, name sponsors and well-dressed teams turned away at the door each week, has raised questions among the press… 2007-03-21T19:00:00-0400