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NASCAR’s Return of the One Car Wonders

by Charlie Turner

Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. The best NASCAR and IndyCar news and opinion, exclusive pictures and video. I'm Charlie Turner. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

January 29, 2009 6:02 pm UTC No Comments

Who said the single car NASCAR Sprint Cup team was dead? Not our own Mindy Monday.

In the latest – and apologetically late - Monday Morning Crew Chief, Mindy tips her hat to several, brand new one car operators. She also disses Brian France. But what else is new?

Watch Mindy’s latest right here. Sorry we’re late.

Filed under: Bench Racing TV, Brad Kesolowski, Brian France, Car of Tomorrow, Jeremy Mayfield, Joe Nemechek, Mike Wallace, Monday Morning Crew Chief, NASCAR, NASCAR Bidness, NASCAR Rumors, NASCAR video, On Pit Row The Fastest Two Hours on Radio, Phil Parsons, Sprint Cup Series, Terry Labonte, Tommy Baldwin, Tommy Baldwin Racing, TRG Motorsports, Warren Wallace

Tagged with: Jeremy Mayfield, Mike Wallace, Mindy Monday, Monday Morning Crew Chief, NASCAR video, Tommy Baldwin

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Live blog – the 50th Daytona 500

by Charlie Turner

February 17, 2008 12:01 am UTC 8 Comments

Welcome NASCAR fans. This is our second ever live blog and first during an actual race. May as well pick the biggest race of the year and one of the most significant in the annals of motorsport – the freakin’ 50th Daytona 500! Enjoy the race.

Filed under: Carl Edwards, Clint Boyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Dale Jarrett, Daytona 500, Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Live blogs, NASCAR & the Media, Nascar Legends, On Pit Row The Fastest Two Hours on Radio, Robby Gordon, Ryan Newman, Sprint Cup Series, The Busch Bros, The Waltrips, Tony Stewart, Warren Wallace

Tagged with: 50th Daytona 500, blog, coveritlive, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona 500, Jimmy Johnson, live blog, motorsports, NASCAR, restrictor plate, the big one

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Four will go and the rest go home

by Charlie Turner

February 14, 2008 8:51 am UTC No Comments

Boris Said is an ON PIT ROW favorite. He said yesterday that he’s either going to get his 7 Eleven – Spurpie – No Fear Racing Fusion into the Daytona 500 or it’s going home in a basket. Boris will be racing with six other go-or-go homers for two spots in NASCAR’s Super Bowl.

Warren Wallace’s other second cousin, Kenny Wallace, Red Bull twins Brian Vickers andA J Allmendinger, Awesome Bill Elliott, Daytona winner Sterling Marlin and Carl Long are the competition for Boris in race number one of the Gatorade Dual 150′s.

The wild card in that race is Kurt Busch. Busch’s owner’s points were transferred to teammate Sam Hornish Jr meaning Kurt has to either qualify on time or use his champion’s provisional to race a Sunday. In typical, stupid, Top 35 Rulefashion; if Busch is slow, he and two other drivers will transfer from this race. If he’s quick enough, it will leave just one other spot for someone else. I think Boris will edge the Toyotas and put another Ford in the big race.

Race two also has two starting spots up for grabs. Patrick Carpentier was the fastest of the bubble boys and he looked good in pole qualifying Sunday, using a driving line different from most everyone else. He’s up against fellow Canadian open wheel refugee Jacques Villenueve, veterans Dale Jarrett, Ken Shrader and John Andretti, Eric McClure and Stanton Barrett Jr.

Michael Waltrip said Sunday that Jarrett was getting all the best stuff from the MWR garage. If they had one car that was better or an engine that ran stronger, DJ was going to get it. Then Wednesday, they found that DJ had one of the engines that needed to be replaced. He’ll start at the back of the field and that won’t help. Shrader’s telling anybody who’ll listen how slow his Dodge has been. Andretti, McClure and Barrett are big underdogs. This one looks like it’s all Mapleleafs to me but Jarrett is next in line to use the champion’s provisional should Kurt Busch race his way to a starting spot.

To quote Warren – or is it Lauren – Wallace “the schooling starts right now.”

Filed under: Boris Said, Dale Jarrett, Daytona 500, Jacques Villeneuve, Kenny Shrader, Kenny Wallace, Sprint Cup Series, The Busch Bros, The Waltrips, The Wood Brothers, Top 35 Rule, Warren Wallace

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Super commercials? Bah -where’s Warren Wallace?

by Charlie Turner

February 4, 2008 2:00 pm UTC 2 Comments

I think that the Super Bowl was as much about the commercials as it is the football game for most non-east coasters.

That’s the way it has been around the day job for me today. Sure, there was some talk about a pretty great game, along with griping about the fact that all we’ll hear from the talking sports-heads for the next eight months is how great the New York Football Giants are. As if the Yankees-Red Sox bias wasn’t enough to turn Middle-American stomachs.

That part didn’t really last too long though. After about an hour of game talk the topic switched totally to the commercials. You know….

“Which one was you favorite? That dancing gecko – Thriller spot was hilarious. No, no, the caveman spot with the bottle-opener did it for me…”

Nobody does geckos and cavemen better than the Geico people. Their Warren, or is Lauren Wallace commercials are still my favorites. There was no sign of Warren during the Super Bowl, but I have to believe Geico has some new adventures of Warren Wallace in store for us over the next couple weeks – I hope.

In fact the only NASCAR spot that I saw was the one by Fox for their Daytona 500 broadcast, and it was pretty cool. I guess there was a Dale Junior Amp Energy Drink commercial, but I missed it just like Bob. You can check it out at the Ranting and Raving blog.

Where’s Warren?

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, NASCAR, NASCAR & the Media, Nationwide Series, Warren Wallace

Tagged with: blog, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona 500, Geico Commercials, Lauren Wallace, motorsports, NASCAR, Super Bowl commercials, Warren Wallace

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Live Blog – NASCAR Awards Show

by Charlie Turner

November 30, 2007 5:45 pm UTC 5 Comments

Watching NASCAR’s year end awards banquet and show from the Waldorf in New York City is, to me, a painful experience. But doing what I do, I feel compelled to watch it. That’s kind of funny actually because I don’t always feel compelled to watch the races. Anyway, since I have to do this, I was hoping that some of you would join me in my pain.

Steve and our producer/photographer Beth Anne have promised – under threat of me making their email addresses public on MySpace – to show up at some point and I have dropped pleading hints around the NASCAR blogosphere as well.

So with the help of this great Cover it Live software we’ll try our best to resurrect Joel, Tom Servo, Betsy and Crow of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fame and totally de-construct NASCAR’s most ludicrous night.

Filed under: Carl Edwards, Clint Boyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Live blogs, Martin Truex Jr., NASCAR & the Media, Nextel Cup Series, On Pit Row The Fastest Two Hours on Radio, Robby Gordon, The Busch Bros, Tony Stewart, Warren Wallace

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Wace Weather with Warren Wallace – an ON PIT ROW exclusive

by Charlie Turner

November 9, 2007 3:44 pm UTC 2 Comments

Bench Racing Productions is proud to debut our new weather forecast feature for the NASCAR race weekends. The Weather with Warren (or is it Lauren?) Wallace will be a regular feature of this space. So let’s get to the weather.

Charlie: "Hey Warren, how’s it going?"

Warren: "It’s Arizona. It’s hot."

Charlie: "Yeah. I’ll bet. So I want to welcome you ON PIT ROW. We’re glad you could find the time in your busy schedule."

Lauren: "Whatever. I heard that you’ve been trying to get my..uh…cousin Rusty on, too. How’s that workin’ out?"

Charlie: "Not so well. Thanks for asking. How about that forecast for the Checker Auto Parts 500 …"

The Kid: "At Pheonix International Raceway. Yeah, I know. Like I said. It’s gonna be hot. And Mike Wallace will be in the wall before it’s over. See ya next week."

Charlie: "Uh, thanks Lauren. Or is it Warren?"

Filed under: Nextel Cup Series, On Pit Row The Fastest Two Hours on Radio, Warren Wallace

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