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Apr 12
Saturday

Petty Enterprises Hits Another Rough Stretch

The Texas 500 weekend was not good for a number of teams, but for a few it was downright horrid. For one in particular it was yet another rough stretch on a road it has traveled all decade and with seemingly no positive ending in sight. This recent contact with a career pothole began entering the weekend at Texas, but the journey to that moment long predated the weekend. By no stretch can Petty Enterprises, the sport's ultimate bastion of history, consider this decade to have been anything but one of misery. A decade that began with the future seemingly coming back from the past reached a scene in 2008 where the team's namesake driver was benched in favor of an ... FULL STORY »

“Racing Safety Institute Goes Live” Offers Valuable Information For Racers And Public

We at Catchfence.com have always been extremely interested in racing safety and have worked to present innovation and technology to that end. As any fan of this sport, we each have, over the years, been so saddened by the lost of ... FULL STORY »

Dale Jarrett’s Top Five

Dale Arnold Jarrett has officially ended his Winston Cup career other than an appearence in NASCAR's all-star race in latter May. With his final points race he closed the book on a career that was a mixture of rockiness and ... FULL STORY »

A Year Later, COT Failure Can’t Be Denied

With the 2008 Southeastern 500 at Bristol, the Car Of Tomorrow officially turned One Year old, and some retrospectives on the project have been published, with quotes from drivers and a few others. When one looks back on this machine, ... FULL STORY »

ARCA RE/MAX Series Set To Return To Action With Test At Rockingham

It's hard to believe that it's been more than a month since the ARCA RE/MAX Series has been in action, but business is about to pick up as the open test for the ARCA RE/MAX Series at Rockingham Speedway kicks ... FULL STORY »

Atlanta: Toyota Breaks Down the Fourth Wall

In movies the term "breaking the fourth wall" goes back decades, but in NASCAR the fourth wall isn't quite the same, and it left Jeff Gordon pontificating about his Las Vegas wreck before winning the pole for the Atlanta 500. ... FULL STORY »

Some Three Race Observations

The 2008 NASCAR season has now run its first three races and there have been several themes permeating this opening stanza of the season. With Atlanta beckoning, some observations on the first three events this year - ROUSH RACING HAS PASSED ... FULL STORY »



Fontana and Vegas Dance Between the Raindrops
Posted 02.28.08
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 ...FULL STORY »
Opportunities From the Daytona 500
Posted 02.20.08
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 2008. The 500 cracked 40 official lead changes for only ...FULL STORY »
Looking Back at NASCAR’s First Car of Tomorrow
Posted 02.12.08
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 is the car of NASCAR's future.....and here for the 1981 ...FULL STORY »
NASCAR’s “Back To Basics” Laundry List
Posted 01.31.08
For the first time in some time something substantive has come out of NASCAR's annual media tour leading up to Speedweeks, and it says something about how far the sport has come down from its self-advertised highs that this came out as it did - public admission that the sport ...FULL STORY »
Morgan-McClure Motorsports, A Casualty Of “Progress”
Posted 01.15.08
NASCAR is supposed to be better now than it used to be. Right? Not when some of its backbone drops out. Such is the case with the announcement that Morgan-McClure Motorsports will not campaign in 2008, the announcement made by team owner Larry McClure while co-owner Tim Morgan gave the official ...FULL STORY »
ARCA Young-Guns Set To Take Control In 2008
Posted 01.14.08
Of course, you would like to think that nine time ARCA RE/MAX Series champion Frank Kimmel has another shot to win the 2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series championship but if ARCA's stout young-guns have anything to do with it, they'll try to keep the legendary ARCA icon at bay. Patrick Sheltra, Dexter ...FULL STORY »
Calmer Day For Trucks At Daytona On Saturday
Posted 01.13.08
Well, round two of NASCAR Preseason Thunder for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Daytona International Speedway was a lot calmer than yesterday's fiasco which saw a host of damaged trucks and sent one of the pre-race favorite team of Roush Fenway Racing pulling two of its trucks from the ...FULL STORY »
Daytona At 50: Looking Back At 1974
Posted 01.04.08
Daytona International Speedway celebrates its 50th season in 2008, and the previous 49 have been exciting and emotional to say the least. Some years were disappointing, to be sure, but a good share of exciting years have run through the speedway, contributing to its reputation as the sport's crown jewel. In ...FULL STORY »
Once Upon A Time In NASCAR…
Posted 10.15.07
Once upon a time in NASCAR... Exciting, thrilling, challenging and jaw dropping racing was held at North Wilkesboro, Rockingham and twice at Darlington. Now the 1.5's and 2.0 miler D-shape, cookie cutters, yawnfestivals dominate the forms of racing. Once upon a time in NASCAR... Drivers had constitutional rights to say what ...FULL STORY »


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