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I was just thinking..

I recently wrote a piece spouting my views about racing, the US auto industry and the government's action that could very well destroy them both. I'm watching for the responses from the big team owners regarding this subject matter, and Rick Hendrick , I think, is an incredibly naive (for the purpose of press quotes) and stupidly optomistic man. "From the standpoint of… Continue

Added by Bram Hume on April 11, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

NASCAR’s 64 Greatest Drivers Bracket Tournament

NASCAR’s version of March Madness probably happens this Sunday on the half mile high-banks of Bristol Motor Speedway. But at Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie, we couldn’t wait. I mean, why should round ball fans have all the bracket bragging rights? We started with the list of the 50 Greatest NASCAR Drivers that NASCAR came up with during NASCAR’s 50th Anniversary season in 1998. Then we added 14 more of our own choosing. That gave… Continue

Added by Charlie on March 20, 2009 at 11:32am — No Comments

A Different Way to Crown the Champ and a NASCAR Fans Bill of Rights

I was reading an article in MotorSport, one of my favorite mags. The piece was about the 1958 Formula One World Championship…….That gap is to let all of you get in your “old guy” jokes. The author, Nigel Roebuck, starts off the story with a quote from F1 Czar, Bernie Eccelstone… For him” the World Champion each year should be the driver who had won the most races, and only in the event of a tie on victories, should places (points) come into reckoning” Now that would be radical, huh? Even for… Continue

Added by Charlie on January 7, 2009 at 11:55am — 1 Comment

ARCA Angels is Driven to Help

Sometimes things just feel right. Today, ARCA and our company, Bench Racing Productions are announcing the launch of a cause marketing effort to be known as ARCA Angels. The program will run for eight weeks in conjunction with ON PIT ROW and INSIDE ARCA sponsored by Team Glock Racing, the two radio programs that are co hosted by Steve Wronkowicz and Charlie Turner from the Toledo Speedway Bar & Grill each week. “We are just trying to help,” said Mark Gundrum, Vice President of Marketing an… Continue

Added by Charlie on August 23, 2008 at 5:43pm — No Comments

Night Racin' Fast Laps at Bristol Motor Speedway

The Race to the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship is down to two short tracks and a big, two mile intermediate. That’s thirty, potentially huge, Chase bonus points up for grabs. Carl Edwards snagged the extra ten points for winning the Michigan race. And MIS is the clone of one of the three tracks remaining - Auto Club Speedwayin Fontana, Fruitland. Edwards is also the defending race winner of the Bristol night race, which just happens to be the next stop on the NASCAR Sprint Cup tour. Ra… Continue

Added by Charlie on August 21, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Fuel Economy Fast Laps in the Irish Hills

Maybe the only question left for Kyle Busch to answer is whether he and crew chief Steve Addington can win a fuel economy race. They will likely get a chance this week in the hilly cottage country of Southeast Michigan. Dale Earnhardt Jr won the June race at MIS with what seemed at the time, the ultimate gas gamble. It worked and Junior broke a long winless streak in the Sprint Cup Series. But the win had a “great taste - less filling” feel for many of his fans. Much as we hope for victories b… Continue

Added by Charlie on August 12, 2008 at 1:37pm — 4 Comments

What happens when you don't go to Church...

I can prove it here. Blessed Be! Continue

Added by Clance' McClannahan on July 31, 2008 at 1:44pm — No Comments

How Kyle Busch wins...

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Added by Clance' McClannahan on July 31, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Danika fussin...

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Added by Clance' McClannahan on July 31, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

A Race of Competition Cautions Breeds Very Little Competition at Indy

Angry fans, cautions every 11 laps for tires that were lasting about 6. Drivers could only run their cars at about 80%. The Indianapolis Speedway surface is a difficult surface to predict, hard to anticipate how the surface will take rubber and given the tire compound used today, the tire simply put out a dusty type of material and never filled in as it has in the past. Add that to the fact the CoT is a much harder car on right side tires, with its higher center of gravity; the mix was a perfe… Continue

Added by Bram Hume on July 27, 2008 at 7:09pm — 21 Comments

Opinion: The "Toyota Rule Change", What it means.

In today's announcement from NASCAR R&D amending the Nationwide Series Rule Book: section 20A – 5.10.4 is amended as follows: “At all Events, unless otherwise specified, all engines with a cylinder bore spacing less than 4.470 inches must compete using a tapered spacer with four (4) 1.125-inch diameter holes. At all Events, unless otherwise specified, all engines with a cylinder bore spacing of 4.470 inches or more must compete using a tapered spacer with four (4) 1.100-inch diameter holes.… Continue

Added by Bram Hume on July 23, 2008 at 7:58pm — 13 Comments

Kyle Busch, Most Hated Man in Racing?

Nascar driver Kyle Busch is a driven man who has alienated himself from a fair proportion of the fans and fellow drivers. Just how driven was demonstrated when he became the first to compete in three races in three different cities a few days back. There was Sprint Cup qualifying in Pocano, Pennsylvania followed by a Craftsman Truck series race in Texas before moving onto a Nationwide eve… Continue

Added by Marc on July 19, 2008 at 3:05pm — 2 Comments

One for the Bench Racers, with thanks to Charlie

Charlie Turner is a smart guy. He brings sharp people together to express their passions on the greatest spectacle in sports. Auto racing. Charlie asked us to come up with a top five list of current Sprint Cup drivers. No easy task. I think alot of us took the easier road (if there is one).. Who is winning the most, who has won the most. And then whose shirt we wear thrown in for good measure. Auto racing ranks right up with religion and politics in the 'let's argue this point' scale. I start… Continue

Added by Bram Hume on July 19, 2008 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Steve Peterson, It's been a pleasure...

During my brief tenure at Roush Fenway Racing in the latter 20th century, I got to meet and be around Steve Peterson. He was a racer's racer at heart and in fact. You'd very often see him re-building shocks on practice days at the track, or countless other things that would go unnoticed to many caught up in the hustle and pressure of a successful racing weekend. You would find him looking for the extra edge to make the cars go faster. He was all over the initiative, the task at hand. The succ… Continue

Added by Bram Hume on July 16, 2008 at 8:00am — 3 Comments

Opinion: Analyzing the victory, Busch is a good student

Kyle Busch spent time with Jimmie Johnson at Hendrick Motorsports last season. Learning. He picked Jimmie Johnson’s brain, he picked Jeff Gordon’s brain. He learned how to be a championship contending racecar driver. Last night in Joliet it paid dividends. Busch thought he was beaten. He has told his crew as the No. 48 made the late race pass at Chicagoland last night, ‘race over, Johnson doesn’t lose these races’. With each lap, No. 18 crew chief Steve Addington told Busch his lap times were… Continue

Added by Bram Hume on July 13, 2008 at 8:30am — 6 Comments

Vote for Matt!

If you haven't seen this, you need to. BenchRacers hereby announces it's official support of this candidate for president! Continue

Added by Charlie on July 12, 2008 at 12:42pm — 6 Comments

I must, I must! Find a key word or Bust!

In response to Charlie's post as to whether any of us use key words to drive traffic: Google loves Key-word's. Oh yes! They do. They'll haunt you and flaunt you, until you're blue. You use them! Abuse them! In front of your face Until you see them All over your space. F… Continue

Added by Clance' McClannahan on July 12, 2008 at 12:43am — 1 Comment

Fast Laps in the Lair of Al Capone

For a long time I thought the trips to Chicagoland for NASCAR races felt odd. You just don’t think of NASCAR when you think the Windy City. But I’ve changed my mind. Stay with me now. Chicago of the 1920’s was the home of one of the most notorious gangster-bootleggers of all time - Al Capone. I don’t know if any of Scarface’s drivers ever aspired to take their Duesenburgs and Packards to the race track or not. But not much more than a generation later, bootleggers of a different sort took to th… Continue

Added by Charlie on July 10, 2008 at 7:21pm — No Comments

Check out my blog!

Hey everyone, check out my blog: www.thecatfishshow.com Continue

Added by Matt Mercer on July 6, 2008 at 4:54pm — No Comments

This Week it’s Firecracker Fast Laps

I wonder if those fortunate rains that fell on, and brought the win to, Kurt Busch at New Hampshire International Speedway yesterday will be the start of KB 1’s resurgence? In case you forgot, Busch the Elder finished second - right on the rear bumper of Ryan Newman - the last time NASCAR saw Daytona. Just because Kurt won in unconventional fashion, by playing the rain game, doesn’t mean this won’t start a streak. Kasey Kahne got rolling after being VOTED into a race. Kurt’s competitors may reg… Continue

Added by Charlie on July 2, 2008 at 4:28pm — No Comments

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