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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A 30 Year Indianapolis 500 Flashback
I’m headed to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend. 30 years ago I was headed there as a “rookie” with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. I received a phone call that spring from then “Voice of the 500” Paul Page along with Bob Jenkins informing me I was going to be a part of [...]
IndyCar, please stop the gimmicks!
Desperate times require desperate measures I guess but IndyCar’s propensity for gimmicks over improved product and listening to the REAL fans of Indy car racing is driving me even crazier than I normally am. First came the Indianapolis Motor Speedway changing qualifying rules AGAIN by saying you have to qualify TWICE to win the pole [...]
