It’s the time of year when the crisp, dry air seems to make the stars sparkle like the Hope Diamond.
Maybe it’s misbegotten optimism, but he’s up there as usual, marching low on the horizon from east to west with broad sword in hand. To much of the world, it’s Orion with his three-star belt and [...]
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Pedley: Duels In Danger Of Becoming Dull-els
Win or spin in Thursday's Gatorade Duels, Danica Patrick will race in Sunday's Daytona 500. (RacinToday/HHP photo by Harold Hinson)
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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And now, the tension of the Gatorade Duels. Except, not really. Not for fans. Not any more. Not since de facto franchising has been tossed into to the pot in Sprint Cup.
Now, the Duels are little more than practice/test sessions.
Time was, the twin qualifying races which preceded the Daytona 500 every year were a really important part of Speedweeks. They were really, really exciting.
Held the Thursday before the 500, they were a drama-o-rama. For teams, for drivers and for fans. It wasn’t like something was riding on their outcomes. It was more like everything was riding on their outcomes. Even more so, almost, than the 500 itself.
Any team – except the two which earned the front row in qualifying the Sunday before – which guessed incorrectly on setup that day; any crew member who booted a lugnut change; any driver who took a shot at threading a need whose eye looked bigger than it actually turned out to be, could spend the most important Sunday in all of stock-car racing sitting on a couch back in North Carolina.
That went for the sport’s royalty and it went for worker bees. No exceptions: Blow your duel, miss the 500. Pretty much as simple as that. Even Earnhardt and Petty and Pearson had to drive their ways in.
Of course the top teams and drivers were probably going to wake up on the morning of the 500 with spots in Read the full story »
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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Looking back the weekend’s NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird International Raceway , the view from here indicates that:
– Matt Hagan maybe suffering a bit of post-championship hangover.
Hagan, who won the 2011 Funny Car championship for Don Schumacher Racing, lost in the first round of eliminations and finished 12th in the season-opening [...]
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Craig Dollansky capped a World of Outlaws doubleheader on Sunday at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., by outlasting Donny Schatz, who started on the pole and had won every race he had been in all day.
Schatz claimed the afternoon feature, which had been delayed since Friday because of rain.
It was also the final event [...]
It’s the time of year when the crisp, dry air seems to make the stars sparkle like the Hope Diamond.
Maybe it’s misbegotten optimism, but he’s up there as usual, marching low on the horizon from east to west with broad sword in hand. To much of the world, it’s Orion with his three-star belt and [...]
Robert Hight gave John Force Racing its second-straight Funny Car victory of the 2012 NHRA season while Jason Line did the same thing for KB Summit Racing in Pro Stock Sunday at the Arizona Nationals on Sunday.
Antron Brown also kept Don Schumacher Racing perfect as he won the Top Fuel portion of the event at [...]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
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Carl Edwards went out early in Sunday’s qualifying session for next Sunday’s Daytona 500 and he went out fast. So fast that none of the 44 drivers who followed him onto the track at Daytona International Speedway could better his speed.
As a result, Edwards will start NASCAR’s biggest race from [...]
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NASCAR on Sunday released eligibility requirements for the 2013 Shootout at Daytona.
Next season’s field will consist of 2012 pole winners and past Shootout winners who have attempted to qualify for at least one race during the 2012 season.
Eligibility rules for next season’s annual non-points race mirror those from 1979-2008, and puts greater emphasis on each [...]
Kyle Busch passed Tony Stewart heading to the finish line on the final lap and went on to win the Budweiser Shootout exhibition race for Sprint Cup cars at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night.
The margin of victory was the narrowest in Shootout history – .013 seconds.
It was Busch’s first Shootout win and it came [...]
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It’s been quite a week for sprint car driver Danny Lasoski in Florida.
He picked up two big victories during the UNOH DIRTcar Nationals present by Summit Racing at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, with the second one coming Saturday night. That second victory came in the first World of Outlaws race of the season.
“We had [...]
A couple of weeks ago, NHRA team-owner John Force, a man synonymous with racing Funny Cars, talked about his thought process pertaining to the decision to begin working on dragster.
A big reason for his interest, he said, was that he already had four Funny Cars on the track every weekend and that meant big odds [...]
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Johnny Gray held on to the No. 1 spot in Funny Car Saturday as qualifying came to an end at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird International Raceway.
Shawn Langdon and Mike Edwards also were qualifying leaders in the Top Fuel and Pro Stock categories respectively at the second of 23 races in the 2012 NHRA [...]
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