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Yesterday morning on national television from Times Square, Danica Patrick and Michael Andretti unveiled a three-year primary sponsorship deal with GoDaddy.com. The car is brightly colored and will not be easy to lose on the track. Did I mention the deal runs through 2012? Danica is now ...
IndyCar
Humpy Wheeler is a colorful fellow. I spent my Thanksgiving holiday below the Mason Dixon Line in the heart of NASCAR country. Every day in the newspapers of the area there are stories of NASCAR, also known as ‘racing.’ There was a Ron Green column that appears to have originated in the ...
IndyCar
Here is one thing for which I am very thankful this Thanksgiving season. Oval racing. Something IndyCar needs to race on more often. As the post-Anton leadership and teams rush headlong into attempting to turn back time to 1995 with all the goofy temporary circuits and a decidedly heavy twisty ...
IndyCar
As the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar Series continue getting down to business in the off season, dramatic change announcements continue unabated. They created a CIO position and installed Rhonda Winter, a gal with lots of blue chip experience. That bodes well for the future. The ...
IndyCar
The NASCAR season mercifully wound down for a couple of months yesterday, and the reliable former off-road racer who made good in ‘stock’ cars did it again. For the fourth time in a row. I wonder whether we will hear the same type of incessant cackling about the same winner over and over and ...
IndyCar
Things that put a smile on my face are sponsored Indy Cars. That happened today to a guy who really deserves it. Will Power will pilot the Penske #12 with Verizon sponsorship, and this time it is full time. That is outstanding and ensures another quality effort for 2010. The Verizon folks ...
IndyCar
Will Power
Roger Penske
Anthony Schoettle is a columnist/blogger for the Indiana Business Journal, and he has made an attempt to evaluate recent moves made by the new management at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Anthony also speculates about what might happen going forward.
The first and most obvious move was the ...
IndyCar
The other night on Wind Tunnel the obligatory IRL mercy hump was reserved for 53 minutes into the program. Dave included Terry Angstadt speaking wearing his ill fitting IZOD jacket in front of the hastily erected sponsor laden banner.
The rah-rah included congratulations on the IndyCar ...
IndyCar
Danica Patrick
IndyCar fans should root in unison for the proposed Comcast purchase of NBC Universal to actually occur. As a content provider, Comcast is very serious about delivering quality programming across a wide demographic swath. That is obvious given their current cable channel offerings in addition ...
IndyCar
Will Power
One of the more harsh realities of employment today is getting laid off. It happens with alarming frequency as our once great country rushes toward transforming itself into a third world nation. It is difficult to find anyone who has not either been laid off at one time or has had to be the ...
IndyCar
It is not too early to begin thinking about holiday shopping for family and friends, and this year features some exceptional deals for real racing fans.
If you Google/Bing/etc., the words IZOD for Indy Collection, there are a lot of branded items Macy has that are quite nice. Great stuff is ...
IndyCar
Many folks who are in the safety business will be conducting a Safety Conference trade show in Indianapolis on December 1 st . This is the first one ever held and the list of stars in that field is very long and illustrious, including:
Robert Hubbard, who invented the HANS device.
Dean ...
IndyCar
The racing weekend featured NASCAR limping along as they wind down their far too long schedule in front of a lot of empty seats at Texas, where Kurt Busch played a fuel economy game to outlast those who ran out of fuel in their winged ‘cars of tomorrow.’ Jimmie Johnson is still out in front in ...
IndyCar
The IZOD IndyCar Series has a really nice ring. After going without a title sponsor for most of the decade, the series has one prepared to spend money and actually use substantial parts of the rich century old history of the brand. The line of clothing tied to the sponsorship and Centennial ...
IndyCar
The thread to which the oldest continuously operated race track in the country has been clinging became even thinner this week. An investor group interested in promoting races at the Milwaukee Mile could not reconcile the owed debt and announced they are out. The whacko politics of that ...
IndyCar
Ryan Hunter-Reay
The single worst thing about this great sport of ours is putting up with interfering sub-humans who have the gall to laughingly refer to themselves as racing fans but spend most of their waking hours attempting to disrupt the sport for actual fans. This phenomenon is never more evident than ...
IndyCar
It is looking more and more as if IZOD will be the Indy car title sponsor to the tune of about 10 extra large per year for five years. Naturally the sky-is-falling brigade is finding fault.
The only fault I can find would be if they did not change their creative effort. They MUST dump that ...
IndyCar
What a strange weekend of racing. The Indy Car season, of course, is over. The only news from the IRL is about some ‘big’ press conference on November 5. Hopefully they have something to announce. Our fear is that the cart playbook has been mimicked to the point of promising socks-blowing-off ...
