We Get Bluegrass Fast Laps for a Change
by Charlie Turner
I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.
July 14, 2008 9:55 pm CDT 4 CommentsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Two weeks off until the Cupsters resume at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
That was a hell of an end to the Lifelock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. Kyle Busch once again won the last lap dash to the checkered flag. This time he bested his old teammate, Jimmy Johnson. It was impressive.
But I get the feeling that Johnson is taking the measure of the Shrub. Dialing in, along with the best crew chief in the business, Chad Knaus, the #48 Lowes Chevrolet for when it really counts. The last ten races. The Chase to the Sprint Cup. Just like 2007. Can’t hardly wait, myself.
Until then, we’ll have to cope. Cope with unrelenting silly season stuff. Wade through a hip-deep slop of rumors about who will drive for whom. And in what car, painted in whose colors.
Enough for now. Watch the Craftsman Trucks and the ARCA RE/MAX cars at Bruton’s new baby, Kentucky Speedway, this weekend. And maybe sip on a Bourbon while thinking about these four, fast left handers .
1: Is Kyle Busch’s seventh win good for racing like Tiger Woods winning every week is good for golf?
2: How did the TNT coverage stack up to the Fox coverage
3: Should Kyle Petty take a full time broadcast gig in 2009, if offered?
4: Over or under-Michael Waltrip Racing will field two and a half cars in 2009.
It’s the Fast Lap and these questions will be a big part of this week’s ON PIT ROW. The best answers and comments will be considered for a brand new video segment OnPitRow.com. So don’t hold back. Kyle Busch doesn’t.
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Happy hour Fast Laps at the Thunder Lounge
by Charlie Turner
I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.
March 31, 2008 9:09 pm CDT 7 Comments
Man, I love races at Martinsville. I admit that it is often hard for me to maintain my focus for the three and a half hours of most Sprint Cup races. But it never seems a problem at the little paper clip in Virginia. Sunday was fun to watch.
I am a bit shocked that Jeff Gordon failed to win the thing. Both he and Jimmy Johnson had to work back, through the pack, to the front. The relentless way that they did so showed they ain’t as dead as the haters had hoped.
Nice comeback by Jamie McMurray and ditto for Casey Mears. There were plenty of short track tempers shown and the carnage within the fleet was a joy to behold. Too bad it’ll be so long before they go back again.
Next up is something completely different, as they use to say on Monte Python’s Flying Circus. Heading down to the home of the Thunder Lounge at Texas Motor Speedway. One of NASCAR’s fastest tracks will be a real change of pace for the cupsters. Try out TMS with four highly banked Fast Lap questions and you might just be featured ON PIT ROW.
1. Even without a win at Martinsville, is Hendrick Motorsports back?
2. In retrospect, should Michael Waltrip Racing have handled the Dale Jarrett/David Reutimann owner’s points swap situation differently?
3. With the awful weather conditions so far this year - is it time for NASCAR to look at wholesale schedule changes?
4. Was NASCAR’s in-race penalty sufficient for Matt Kenseth’s retaliation towards David Gilliland or should they levy additional punishment?
Go to the comments section and give us your best answers to our four Fast Lap questions but remember you are limited to 100 words or less for each. Then remember to stop back throughout the week to defend yourself from the fender banging of your friends. While here, feel free to bump draft fellow Fast Lappers too. We use the best - and sometimes the worst - comments on the radio version of ON PIT ROW. You can listen live on Tuesdays from 5-7 PM EDT at OnPitRow.com.
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Thunder Valley Fast Laps on the menu
by Charlie Turner
I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.
March 11, 2008 9:27 am CDT 2 Comments
The pump has been primed. Kyle Busch won the Kobalt Tools 500 and grabbed the first win for Toyota in Sprint Cup Series competition. That should have been the biggest story ON PIT ROW in Atlanta, but it wasn’t.
Like an old Paul Simon song, those New Cars were slip-slidin’ away, all day long and a cadre of drivers led by Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr let loose on Goodyear for bringing an inadequate tire to the party.
Smoke didn’t complain - he attacked Goodyear and in the end did everything but blame the California weather on the Akron tire maker. Tony was pretty hot for someone who actually finished second to his rowdy teammate, Kyle Busch.
On Monday, several drivers, current and former, stepped up to defend Goodyear. Michael and Darrell Waltrip along with Ryan Newman praised Goodyear for erring on the side of safety with the Atlanta tire compound. It seems kind of funny that Stewart and Gordon, the drivers most recently involved in hard crashes, would be the ones on the flip-side of that argument.
The first Bristol race of 2008 is on tap and it’s a near certainty that heads will be hot in the post-race pits on Sunday. Goodyear could use the diversion of some hotly contested Fast Laps. Let these four high-banked testers divert you for a few hundred words.
1. Is Tony Stewart’s criticism of Goodyear justified?
2. Now that Toyota has it’s first win, are Jack Roush’s worst fears set to come true?
3. Was Kyle Busch the right guy to get Toyota’s first win?
4. Was the #99 team of Carl Edwards, guilty of premeditated down-force addition?
Four Fast turns and you get 100 words or less to respond. Of course, you can use as many words as you want to put your fellow commenters into the wall. The Fast Lap blog is about NASCAR debate. Bring your best and we may use it on our next show.
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Fast Laps! Welcome to the On Pit Row Fast Lap blog. Every week On Pit Row we pose four Fast Lap questions. Four corners - four questions. On the radio show, Steve and I have 30 seconds each, to give our response to each of the four. If you are a listener, you already know that we rarely agree on any answer. The Fast Lap is NASCAR debate. Hannity and Colmes. Lincoln and Douglas. Wronkowicz and Turner. OK, maybe not Lincoln and Douglas. We have more fun than Lincoln and Douglas. Here's the challenge. We will post our Fast Lap questions some time each Monday. Four questions on topical NASCAR related subjects. Your mission is to comment with your answers and each answer is limited to 100 words. The questions, answers and comments will form the basis of this blog for that week. Comment on the Fast Lap questions. Comment on the comments. Insult the commenters. Witty ridicule is rated at least as highly as cogent commentary. Just remember that you have limited words and penalties are severe. Or not. Steve and I will select worthy blog entries to be featured on an edition of On Pit Row. That's the plan. I'm sure we will have some other things to post about each week but the intention is to pose most posts as questions. I want to argue with you! Bring it on.
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