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by Mindy Monday, Special To Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie

July 4, 2009 10:02 am CDT No Comments

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Steve’s bold claim that Joey Logano wouldn’t make it to the July date in Daytona didn’t get by Mindy Monday. Neither did Charlie’s prediction of a Sliced Bread win before the 4th.

Speaking of the 4th - where the hell did the Firecracker 400 go anyway?

There’s more, including Danica, man-boobs and Tony George. Watch the  newsest Monday Morning Crew Chief.

Filed under: Danica Patrick, Daytona International Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Joey Logano, Monday Morning Crew Chief, NASCAR, NASCAR video, On Pit Row The Fastest Two Hours on Radio 

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Crossed Flags for NASCAR on the Fourth of July

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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. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

July 3, 2009 11:30 am CDT 1 Comment

Crossed flags are displayed. Sometime Saturday night - barring rain - the Sprint Cup Series will have reached the halfway point in the 2009 season.

So far…

Rookies (One is a rookie owner) have won three races.

Mark Martin and the Shrub have three wins each.

Martin and Rowdy are a combined 888 points behind  rookie Tony Stewart.

17 points separate the five drivers from 14th place to 10th. Kasey Kahne is one point out of the Chase. Juan Pablo Montoya is “in” by one.

Owner Richard Petty has a win. Owner Richard Childress doesn’t.

Tony Eury Jr is still “out”. Dale Earnhardt Jr is still “in”.

Danica Patrick is still in open wheel racing. Tony George isn’t.

18 races to go.

Photo credit; Round girl Jen by Bethanne Heisler for Onpitrow.com

Filed under: Chase for the Cup, NASCAR, Sprint Cup Series, Tony Stewart 

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Daytona Fantasy Racing Live Chat: Thursday at 7 PM ET

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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. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

July 2, 2009 11:07 am CDT No Comments

Join us tonight on the Bench Racers Live page for an hour  or more of live NASCAR fantasy racing advice and discussion.

You can sign up to be reminded in the box below. Hope you can stop by as Ryan Rantz shares his expertise for the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca Cola at Daytona International Speedway.

Filed under: Daytona International Speedway, Live blogs, NASCAR, NASCAR Fantasy Gaming, Sprint Cup Series 

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Fast Laps: Daytona

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by Matt Mercer, Special To Bench Racing With Steve and Charlie

I'm the writer of The Catfish Show NASCAR Blog, which you can access through the links on the right. Follow me on Twitter: @mattmercer

June 29, 2009 3:29 pm CDT 4 Comments

We’ve recently witnessed Formula One save itself from an IRL/CART division, and in the process Max Mosley will step aside from leadership. The teams’ complaint was over a salary cap, as teams wish to spend as much as their heart desires each year. Ferrari’s annual budget reportedly runs close to half a billion(!) dollars. I bring this up to talk about NASCAR and cost-cutting measures being talked about and in some cases already implemented. No more testing. The new car and strenuous limits on what can be done to the car. It’s been my opinion for a long time that NASCAR needs to open up and make the Sprint Cup Series more like Formula One, at least from the standpoint that teams should be free to do what works and let them be creative. The sport grew because of those advancements along with teams and manufacturers wanting to best one another. Today, however, manufacturers are in trouble. Still, that’s not a reason to homogenize the top series any more than it has already become. My view is let Sprint Cup be the big boys and let them have the advancement. Drop down to Nationwide, and let’s go with some cost-cutting. Limit cars. Do whatever they planned to do. In the Camping World Truck Series, go even further. Let’s have the best of both worlds. Sprint Cup doesn’t need to be like IROC with common cars and common everything. If you’re going to call it your top series, then actually treat it as the pinnacle of the sport.

Let’s get to the comments and see some good answers. Tell your friends to reply too. Remember the new rule, 100 words total.

1. Going back to my complaint/rant in the opening, are “spec” or common engines inevitable or will we continue to see brand-specific engines in Sprint Cup?

2. Should NASCAR push through the Nationwide COT in superspeedway and road course races in 2010, as has been mentioned?

3. Does this restrictor plate package need to be changed?

4. How long do you remember rain-shortened wins? Stats don’t care about it, but do fans?

Photo credit: Icon Sports Media

Filed under: Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR 

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Joey Logano Uses Zippadelli’s Leadership to Beat the Rain at Loudon

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by Steve Wronkowicz

I am co-host of the syndicated radio show: ON PIT ROW. Charlie likes to call me an "idiot". I'm not an "idiot"; I just prefer not to let the facts get in the way of my opinions.

June 28, 2009 8:45 pm CDT No Comments

Joey Lagono did something that most nineteen year olds have a hard time with; listening to their elders.

Logano listened to crew chief Greg Zippadelli, when he told the first year Cup driver to save enough fuel to make it to the red flag.  Rain came on lap 273 of the scheduled 301 laps and “Sliced Bread” was in a position to win.  What early on looked to be bad luck turned out to be good for the #20 team.  A couple of flat tires and a torn up left rear quarter panel forced him to pit for new tires and allowed the rookie to top off with fuel during the several stops necessary to get the car back into contention.  Logano wasn’t thinking silver lining at the time:

We had a left rear cut down right before we made that last long green flag run and just trying to overcome that.  When that happened, I thought we were done.  I was like, the day just went bad, just try to finish it off and get as best finish we can and we made the right move at the end.  He (Zippadelli) went for it and I was just lucky enough to be in the seat.

The win puts Joe Gibbs Racing back in the win column for the first time in a ride other than the #18 of Kyle Busch.  Logano’s Cup season got off to a rough start.  Just maybe he was in a bit over his head which led me to believe that he might fold under the pressures and not make it past the middle of the season.  Look here to see how wrong I could be.

Double file restarts have greatly increased the viewer excitement of the races since their inception.  They have also been the cause of some mishaps.  Perhaps the two go hand in hand.  Loudon had a “big one” the likes of which reminds fans of the side by side racing usually reserved for the plate tracks.  The racing has been more fun to watch and NASCAR must be given credit for the move.

This all leads us to this week’s BUZZ ON PIT ROW:

If the new double file restarts can make for exciting races at New Hampshire and Sonoma; can it do the same for the ‘cookie cutters” at Chicago, Kansas, Atlanta et al?

Let us know what you think and we could use your comments on this week’s ON PIT ROW radio show.  Listen live every Tuesday from 5-7pm ET at www.onpitrow.com. Or give us a call at 1-800-645-2946 and if your call is The Shell Nitrogen Enriched Call of the Day you will win a Kevin Harvick bobblehead.

photo credit: Dew Hallowell/Getty Images for NASCAR

Filed under: Atlanta Motor Speedway, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, NASCAR, On Pit Row The Fastest Two Hours on Radio 

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A Stewart-Haas One-Two at Loudon?

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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. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

June 28, 2009 10:05 am CDT 3 Comments

What else does Tony Stewart have to do?

He’s already taken a third tier Cup team from struggling to qualify for races to leading the Sprint Cup Series points after 16 meets. Smoke has won an all-star race and the cupper at Pocono. In fact, both of Tony’s cars - his no. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Racing Chevy and Ryan Newman’s no. 39 U S Army/Haas Automation Impala are solidly in the top 12 in points.

The problem is, I am not yet a believer. Which may mean the mantle of resident idiot at the Bench Racing blog is up for grabs. Again. But, whatever. I need more convincing and it might just come today at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

You can make the argument that Loudon is Stewart’s best track. 20 races, 2 wins, 10 top fives, 12 top tens. Newman also has two wins and nine top tens.  

A one-two finish on the real, big paperclip would probably end my doubts.

Photo credit: Round girl Jen by BethAnne Heisler for OnPitRow.com

Filed under: Haas CNC Racing, NASCAR, New Hampshire International Speedway, Ryan Newman, Sprint Cup Series, Stewart Haas Racing, Tony Stewart 

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