Racing, even today, is a tight knit family.  When we entered into the sport in the seventies it was even tighter.  It was amazing how a set number of racers controlled the sport and the technology being applied.  Many had the ear of NASCAR and the rules reflected that control.  Until 1981 you basically had [...]

Somebody needs to remind Chad Knaus about Jimmy Johnson’s depth perception problem!
Before you Earnhardt fans get out your nooses out and head to Thomasville looking for Brian Vickers you better look back at a few of the last restrictor plate races.  I don’t know what Chad Knaus was smoking Sunday but he needs to check [...]

A “Wobble” is a rant on a topic or event that chaps my butt and tests my emotions.
Today’s Wobble is a racing related issue.  NASCAR chose to down size the restrictor plates on Saturday after practice and before qualification.  The press release said that in light of practice speeds and with safety an issue reduced [...]

Right along the same time as the interest in racing was talking place I started playing little league baseball. The first year I played I realized that I could get into this baseball thing; it was amazing how easy it was to be good.  The second year of little league changed me for life. [...]

Although I heard all about the races and driver my father liked, it wasn’t until the mid sixties that I got the opportunity to experience racing first hand.  I was probably 7 or 8 years old when my father, my cousin John and I ventured into the old Speedway Park in the middle of Jacksonville, [...]

At a local event while I was doing a workshop on chassis dynamics, I asked if there were any questions.  A young man in his early teens looked at me and asked; “Did you ever meet Earnhardt?”  Over two hours of hardcore chassis design and theory this young man wanted to know something irreverent to [...]