Just when Fontana needed something to bring itself some positive coverage, it got instead a rain-soaked weekend, water seeping up from the ground, subpar attendence, and a quality of racing noticably down from last September's strikingly fierce affair. Surprisingly a story circulated that the Oscar ceremony was concerned that the race might cut into ratings for the Academy Awards broadcast, but it's a little hard to buy that one, and certainly the presence of Tom Cruise - whose only "good" movie, Top Gun, succeeds not because of him or Kelly McGillis but because of Val Kilmer, Rick Rossovich, Michael Ironside, Tom Skerritt, and terrific aerial footage - added nothing to the Fontana weekend any more than his ill-conceived NASCAR movie, ... FULL STORY »
The 50th Daytona 500 managed to do something unusual for modern NASCAR - it stayed within the form chart of the last five years yet at the same time offered something different, and presented opportunities for teams moving forward in ... FULL STORY »
A new species of racecar is set to debut at Daytona. It is a species unlike what has been run before, and this new machine's subtlties and characteristics make it a particularly tricky puzzle for raceteams to figure out. It ... FULL STORY »