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3/24/2010 Mind Games
NASCAR’s substance testing program doesn’t cover what’s inside a lot of people in the Sprint Cup garage area. Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus. With three wins in the season’s first five races and in pursuit of a historic fifth... Read more.
3/11/2010 Be Careful What You Wish For
Rowdy or reckless? When it’s November in Homestead, I’m wondering which word we’ll use to describe the NASCAR season. For the last few years the popular argument was that the Sprint Cup spectacle had gone a bit stale. That the show had... Read more.
2/8/2010 10 in '10
Happy New Decade. Well, actually, because there was no year 0000, it’s not a new decade until next January. Somehow we let the hype of 1999 changing into 2000 obscure that fact. But that stuff is too technical for me, and since Chad Knaus... Read more.
12/7/2009 The Man of the Year 2009
Let youth be served. Except in 2009. In January, 57-year-old Chesley Sullenberger heroically piloted a US Airways jet to a safe landing on New York’s Hudson River. In July, 59-year-old Tom Watson came within an eight-foot putt on the 72d hole of... Read more.
11/23/2009 Thoughts Coming to the Line
I've asked more than one winning driver what thoughts were, well, racing through his mind, in the seconds just before crossing the finish line. The answer often has been along the lines of a confident, "I did it!" Sometimes, in extra candid moments, it... Read more.
11/2/2009 Insanely Fast
I hope the so-called "leaders" of Indy Car racing - yes, the same ones who grabbed the wheel 13 unlucky years ago and turned the sport hard-right into the wall - will take a few minutes to read what follows. They just might learn something. I know. That... Read more.
10/12/2009 Road to Reason
Here's something I've learned: The more I think I know, the more I realize I don't know. Take last Saturday's motorsports calendar, for example. Down in south Florida, at Homestead-Miami Speedway, both the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the Indy... Read more.
9/28/2009 The Goodbye Gil
Since he's a movie buff, let's say the curtain is about to come down on Gil de Ferran's second act. When the checkered flag waves Oct. 10, in the American Le Mans Series season finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, de Ferran will again retire from... Read more.
9/14/2009 Who's the Favorite?
The Chase is On! But . . . Who's the favorite? I don't think there's an obvious answer. At the start of NASCAR's run for glory and the Sprint Cup, I find myself more puzzled to make a pick than in any of the previous five post-seasons. It seems to me to... Read more.
8/31/2009 Go For The Gold
With the complete understanding that NASCAR already is steering through and around plenty of short-term challenges - the economy and CoT quickly come to mind - there's a longer-term, bigger picture task I'd like Brian France and Co. to take on. I'd like... Read more.
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About I.N. Sider
I.N. Sider is the pen name for an independent motorsports business-person who has a quarter-century of professional experience working in almost every major North American racing series. The writer is not an employee of Valvoline or Ashland Inc. The column is intended to inform, entertain, and stimulate thought on the contemporary motorsports scene. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of Valvoline or Ashland Inc.