The running of the Daytona 500 over the weekend may have been the most eventful, exciting and scariest race in years.
- Injuries to race fans has always been problem Jalopnik reports
- Instead of paying to park the car at your airport, let someone borrow it for free
- The head of Cadillac worked for AT&T and was the son of missionaries
Last week, David Caraviello @dcaraviello argued in an article published on NASCAR that Joe Gibbs Racing was the “biggest off season winner” going into 2013. Caraviello points out JGR’s Sprint Cup drivers makes them heavy favorites to win the Chase next year.
Joe Gibbs Racing stable of drivers for 2013 include Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and the newly-signed Matt Kenseth to replace Joey Logano. While Joe Gibbs has a history of success winning championships, one with Bobby Labonte in 2000 and two more with Tony Stewart in 2002 and 2005, these drivers have long since moved on and JGR’s current drivers only boast two championship wins with other race teams. Kyle Busch hasn’t won a championship since 2004 and Matt Kenseth hasn’t won since 2003. [keep reading]
There’s something gamers call the Madden Curse and it guarantees if an athlete appears on the cover of the EA Sports Madden NFL video game, their season will be plagued with bad luck. The Curse has been traced back to 1999, but does the curse exist for the drivers on the cover of NASCAR video games? Dale Jr. will appear on NASCAR The Game: Inside Line next month and spoke to USA Today about the curse. Jr. shrugged it off and said as long as Activision is developing the game, not EA Sports, the curse shouldn’t be an issue.
Unlike Madden which is released before the NFL season starts, NASCAR video games have been traditionally released towards the end of the race season in September. As a result, we’ve taken a look at how the drivers featured on the cover of the video game fared in races before September and those after to really see if the Madden curse affects NASCAR too. At the end of each segment we have a verdict for each year. Please note, the year of the game does not coincide with the race season. For example NASCAR 1998 was released in 1997, NASCAR 99 in 1998 and so on. [keep reading]
The last weekend of July is over and so is Joel Ewanick’s reign at GM. Here’s what else happened…
- The Chinese don’t want to buy used luxury cars
- Joel Ewanick kicks himself out of GM indefinitely
- Will GM’s FWD V8 rides ever be collectible?
- Jimmie Johnson claims his 4th career victory at the Brickyard
Remember the GMC Typhoon? How about Motorweek? (One is actually still around). Found in the depths of YouTube is Motorweek’s 1992 review of the Typhoon titled “Shelter from the Storm.”
- Detroit looked a lot like Detroit at the Grand Prix on Sunday
- Cars of the Royal Family: 60 Year Timeline in Photos
- War vets are rebuilding cars and their lives
- Pit reporter Dick Berggren will retire after a 32 year career