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(photo courtesy Todd Warshaw/Getty Images) The Earnhardt’s heroic/tragic relationship with the Daytona International Speedway added another chapter to its fabled storybook as Dale Jr. won the pole for the 2011 Daytona 500 on Feb.20th. This pole award comes on the 10th anniversary of his father’s untimely death on the last lap of . . . → Read More: Junior Nation Celebrates With The Pole (photo courtesy Leon Hammack) It doesn’t seem to matter where Harvick starts the 75-lap exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway. Last year he won from the second position. Two years ago he claimed his first Shootout win from 27th on the grid. Harvick will try to win his third Bud Shootout in . . . → Read More: Dale Jr. Starts On The Pole For The Bud Shootout Photo courtesy Leon Hammack) As the media reported last week, there was a major shakeup, a crew chief swap, a company upheaval, or whatever you would like to call it, at Hendrick Motorsports! After closer scrutiny, it appears that the way this swap is going to really happen is as follows: Dale . . . → Read More: How The HMS Crew Chief Swap Really Worked (photo courtesy Jason Smith/Getty Images) In a Wednesday morning teleconference with the media, NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick reiterated that the massive changes going on at his race shop, Hendrick Motorsports, are the results of his belief that people on his team “had gotten complacent”. He said that since his announcement of . . . → Read More: More From Hendrick On The Major Shakeup (photo courtesy Leon Hammack) On Tuesday Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports, announced a multi-team shakeup for 2011. Hendrick cited the reason for the shakeup was due to a lack of performance. Here is the scorecard for 2011: Steve Letarte, who has been crew chief for Jeff Gordon for the last five . . . → Read More: A Shakeup At Hendrick Motorsports (photo courtesy Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) WOMR just returned home from the trip to Talladega for the AMP Energy Juice 500 and have only one thing to say. This wasn’t just another NASCAR race, this was Talladega! In many ways Sunday was like days of old at the famed 2.66 mile superspeedway . . . → Read More: Bowyer Edges Harvick In The Amp Energy Juice 500 On an unassuming stretch of land suited for soybean farming located next to a couple of abandoned airport runways, crews constructed the biggest, fastest and most competitive superspeedway in the world – – Talladega Superspeedway. Since Alabama International Motor Speedway (as it was called until 1989) opened its gates in September of . . . → Read More: Talladega Superspeedway History (photo courtesy John Harrelson/Getty Images) WOMR has heard, on more than one occasion, from the TV commentators over the life of The Chase races, that the “non-chasers”, the “rest of the field”, “the also rans” are racing “the chasers” too hard. Their complaint was that those “non-chasers” weren’t moving over and allowing . . . → Read More: Non-Chasers Are Racing Too! (photo courtesy Tom Whitmore/Getty Images) Could it be that Dale Earnhardt,Jr.’s rise in the standings this season is related to the fall of Mark Martin? Earnhardt finished fourth last Saturday night at the Coke Zero 400 and climbed up to 12th position in the Chase. Meanwhile Martin was caught up in one . . . → Read More: Is Dale Jr’s Fortunes Martin’s Misfortunes? (photo courtesy Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images) It was the third time that the #3 Chevy had been on the track since Dale Earnhardt, Sr. lost his life back in February 2001. It was the second time that Dale, Jr. had driven the #3 Chevy since his father’s death. Earlier Saturday afternoon Dale Jr.qualified . . . → Read More: It’s A Family Tradition |
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