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 [...]
IndyCar and SMI “dis” the Indianapolis 500
Many IndyCar fans and even long-time journalists are applauding the recent announcement by IndyCar and Las Vegas Motor Speedway (SMI) of a 5 million dollar bonus to any non IndyCar regular that would win the season-ending race at that track. I say it’s a smear against the Indianapolis 500. If the Indianapolis 500 is your [...]
Déjà vu all over again?
By now you know that I worked with Championship Auto Racing Teams as a radio announcer during that series glory years of the late 80’s and through the 90’s. I was there to see many of the mistakes that were made that ultimately led to the demise of a series that once provided the best [...]
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 [...]
Ringing out the old year
2010 was definitely an interesting year in auto racing. Jimmie Johnson comes from behind to win Nascar Sprint Cup title #5 in a row. Dario Franchitti not only wins the Indianapolis 500 but he comes from behind to claim the IndyCar title. Chip Ganassi won the Indianapolis 500 as a team owner with Franchitti plus [...]
Time to end Driver of the Year in Nascar & IndyCar
Congrats to five-time Nascar Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson for winning the “Driver of the Year” award for the fourth time in his career. However, he should never have gotten the award. Here’s my thinking on this. Could Johnson have done anything he did on the race track without his team? How many times during [...]
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 [...]
PT Barnum is alive and well with IndyCar!
I am ready to go Rambo on the IndyCar series and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway! First they keep trashing normal month of May traditions and now they will have a 34th car on the track coming to the green flag of the Indianapolis 500! In their best PT Barnum impersonation, IndyCar is unveiling the “Izod [...]
Does tradition really matter at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
Let me start by stating that I know I’m a Neanderthal when it comes to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500. I am guilty of being stuck in the past and see every change made around this iconic event as a travesty. When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway added a Nascar event back in [...]
