Running Their Mouth: 2007 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard
This week, here’s a peek at what some select few were thinking after the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.
This week, here’s a peek at what some select few were thinking after the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.
Jeff Gordon – Gordon has won a track record four Brickyard 400s, including the inaugural event in 1994. He’s also managed 10 top-10 finishes here in 13 starts. The Indiana transplant is hugely popular with the fans in Indy, as well. Denny Hamlin – Hamlin finished 10th here last year in his only Brickyard start …
Everything that most people thought was true about Ginn Racing’s “restructuring plan” was proved false… nothing more than a bad sequence of broken promises.
Since owner Bobby Ginn purchased the two-team organization formerly known as MB2 Motorsports, what the NASCAR community has witnessed is an illusion.
Last week, the circle-track world was up in arms about the goings-on at Ginn Racing. The former MB2 Motorsports team was suddenly in dire straits.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Aric Almirola will be headed to Ginn Racing to share a Cup ride with Mark Martin for the rest of 2007 and beyond.
It’s now been six years since Chicagoland hosted its first Nextel Cup race. Are you disappointed in the progress being made as the track has aged?
Jeff Gordon – Gordon won this race last year and has top-five finishes in four of his six starts at Chicagoland.
Jamie McMurray’s win: Long time coming, or lucky son-of-a-gun?
At Daytona in February, Mark Martin made his debut for Ginn Racing by winning the Daytona 500… but losing the Daytona 505 by little more than one foot. Many argue that he got worked out of it by NASCAR’s controversial decision to not throw the yellow flag for a crash off turn 4 until after …
Saturday was supposed to be the luckiest day of the year – July 7, 2007 (7/7/07). On that fateful night, some of NASCAR’s greatest drivers were lucky, indeed, finding no problem pulling the lever and hitting that jackpot on the slot machine of restrictor-plate racing known as Daytona International Speedway. While Jamie McMurray snagged the …
Jeff Gordon – Gordon’s Daytona record speaks for itself; he’s won a total of six points races there, most recently the 2005 Daytona 500. With the Hendrick teams on a roll at the plate tracks, that should make Gordon an automatic contender, right? Not quite; it has to be pointed out that Gordon has finished …
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