Last week I asked people what they thought of the 2008 season. The results were mixed, but overall people felt disappointed with the season. There were certainly highlights during the season like a thrilling Daytona 500, both Bristol races My suspicion is that the CoT played a big part in these feelings. Without a competitive [...]

The 2008 Sprint (formerly Nextel) Cup season was filled with changes. Dale Earnhardt Jr and Kyle Busch having new addresses, the foxy and boxy new car(formerly sleek and sexy), the CoT went fulltime, Toyota hinted at the dominance many xenophobes (formerly old-timers) feared and Jimmie Johnson still came out on top. It was an [...]

Barring a complex kidnapping of Jimmie Johnson or a bizarre last minute rule change outlawing all silver and blue cars, the 2008 championship is already wrapped up for the #48 team. While it’s more of a blowout than past years, there hasn’t been a real surprise in the last four season finales. The points leader [...]

For anyone watching Jimmie Johnson and the #48 team celebrate in Victory Lane at Phoenix, it looked a lot like a team celebrating a championship.
Everyone got soaked with Gatorade and took longer than usual to settle down. If the #48 knows it, then it’s really over.
Sure, Johnson has to avoid trouble and finish 36th or [...]

If you saw Carl Edwards’ Victory Lane interview, he looked like a bank robber that had done everything right, taken the loot planned his escape and then gets caught after he got home. “Are you kidding me? Man, you’ve rained on my parade all day. I could have done without that one.” The good news [...]

With sponsorship money vanishing faster than an airplane in David Copperfield’s sight line, teams are forced to get creative to keep their cars from the dreaded blank paint scheme.
Yates Racing has struggled all season to keep their two cars funded, but they’ve been able to cobble together several short-term sponsor deals all season. Travis Kvapil [...]

Jimmie Johnson has a real problem on his hands.
Where will all of these Martinsville grandfather clocks go?
So it’s not a serious problem, but right now with the charmed life he’s living, it’s tough to think of adverse scenarios for Johnson. I would like to know, though, where all the clocks fit in his house. Most [...]

Engine Watch 2008: Gunk on the Loose @ Yahoo! Video