Attendance is down in racing across America. Television audience numbers are dwindling even for Nascar. Everyone it seems has their own opinion on why and what the answer is. My friend Michael Knight in his Spin Doctor 500 blog talks about the problem he sees. John Daly through his The Daly Planet blog tackles what’s [...]
My first 12 Hours of Sebring
Somehow I never had attended the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring until this past weekend. That changed after the American LeMans Series hired me to become the public address announcer for them along with the IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama and the Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Championship. To say it was an experience [...]
What will 2011 bring?
Unfortunately I do not have a crystal ball nor can I read the future. If I could, I’d be on a beach sipping those umbrella drinks after hitting the lottery. I do have some questions though as the 2011 racing season is about to get underway. The top question, as it has been now for [...]
Happy Birthday to us!
It isn’t actually my personal birthday but today does mark one year that has passed since the beginning of the PowerUp Motorsports Channel and Pit Pass USA being a part of it. The channel was the brain child of Stefani Paulus. Stef, who has been around racing a long time (but not that long as [...]
A big shoe falls as 2009 Detroit Grand Prix cancelled!
Shock. That’s the only word to describe what I felt when WXYZ TV in Detroit Thursday evening announced that the 2009 Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle was being cancelled.
America’s Short Track Survival
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about the survival of Nascar, cutbacks in the American LeMans Series, motorcycle racing, and more. Not discussed, America’s short tracks and how they are doing in these tough economic times
