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Steve's NASCAR Racing Blog October 2003 Archive

By Steve McCormick, About.com Guide to NASCAR Racing since 1997

Newman Does It Again

Friday October 31, 2003
For the 10th time in 2003 Ryan Newman won the pole. This Sunday Ryan will lead them down to the green flag in Phoenix. Other notables include Dale ... Read More

No More Pontiac

Tuesday October 28, 2003
General Motors announced today that they will no longer support the Pontiac brand in NASCAR beginning with the 2004 season. There were only a couple of teams left ... Read More

New Boostaroo Splitter and Volume Boost

Monday October 27, 2003
If you need to share your scanner, need a boost in scanner volume to hear over the roar of the engines or simply want to extend your battery life then ... Read More

Riggs Bumps Benson

Friday October 24, 2003
Vallvoline Racing website is reporting that Scott Riggs will replace Johnny Benson in the MBV Motorsports Valvoline #10 for the 2004 season. Riggs has wins in both the Craftsman ... Read More

Bill Elliott To Retire

Wednesday October 22, 2003
Fox Sports' Totally NASCAR is reporting that Bill Elliott will retire from full-time competition at the end of the 2003 season. Elliott will compete in only five races next ... Read More

Tony Renna In Fatal Practice Crash

Wednesday October 22, 2003
Not NASCAR but:.. IRL veteran Tony Renna passed away today after a testing crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He was making his first laps with new car owner ... Read More

Busch Series Championship Still Up For Grabs

Monday October 20, 2003
The NASCAR Winston Cup race may be over but the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series is still a five horse race. Four of the top five points positions changed hands ... Read More

Jeff Gordon On The Pole

Friday October 17, 2003
Qualifying for this weekend's Winston Cup race in Martinsville is in the books and Jeff Gordon smoked second place Ward burton by more than one tenth of a second. ... Read More

Who Is Where For 2004?

Thursday October 16, 2003
With all of the recent "Silly Season" announcements lately I've been having a hard time keeping track of who will be driving what car in 2004 as well as who ... Read More

NASCAR Bigger Than The NFL

Tuesday October 14, 2003
Well, at least on the internet that is true. Googling for NASCAR returns 6.9 million results while NFL returns only 5.5 million results. See the results for ... Read More

Nemechek To The 01 Next Week

Monday October 13, 2003
Joe Nemechek will be taking over the driving duties on Jerry Nadeau's MB2 Motorsports #01 car for 2004 while Jerry continues his recovery. In order to get a jump ... Read More

Ward Burton Finds New Home For 2004

Friday October 10, 2003
Haas CNC Racing announced in Charlotte that they have signed Ward Burton to drive the NetZero #0 car for the 2004 season. Current driver Jason Leffler will drop back ... Read More

An Alternate Points System

Thursday October 9, 2003
NASCAR is in the business of putting on a show and what makes a good show in racing is passing. How do you make the drivers pass? You make the ... Read More

Yellow Flag Rule Still Controversial

Wednesday October 8, 2003
Recently in the forum wally032001 said "I personally don't agree with the new rule about the gentlemans agreement.... I guess common sense should come into play,if you're away from the ... Read More

And Even More Bad Luck For Kenseth

Sunday October 5, 2003
After three-quarters of a season of nearly perfect NASCAR some thought that Matt Kenseth was due for some bad luck. Blowing the engine in Talladega, wrecking in Friday morning ... Read More

Kenseth Unlucky Streak Continues

Friday October 3, 2003
Last week's blown engine and DNF in Talladega was the first bad luck that Matt Kenseth had seen all season long. Today he backed it up with another setback. ... Read More

More Fun With NASCAR Numbers

Thursday October 2, 2003
I was perusing the NASCAR standings today for the Busch Grand National series and noticed that only 15 drivers have started all 27 races in the Busch series so far ... Read More

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