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Steve's NASCAR Racing Blog January 2005 Archive

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

NASCAR SimRacing Demo Available

Monday January 31, 2005
EA Sports new PC NASCAR racer will be released in February. To hold us over until then, and to give folks a first-hand look at their new NASCAR game, ... Read More

Possible Changes At The Top?

Monday January 31, 2005
Interesting that one of the top stories to emerge from the media tour so far is that Brian France is not leaving NASCAR. The folks on hand are making ... Read More

2005 Silly-Season Solid

Monday January 31, 2005
With only a couple of weeks left until the festivities kick off in Daytona most of the driver, crew and sponsor issues for the first part of 2005 have been ... Read More

IROC Needs to be Fixed

Monday January 24, 2005
The International Race of Champions named its 2005 schedule which includes Daytona, Texas, Richmond and Atlanta. All of these are NEXTEL Cup tracks and race on NEXTEL Cup weekends, ... Read More

Ward Replaced By Bliss

Monday January 24, 2005
In case you missed it in the rush of banquet season in December, Mike Bliss has been named to replace Ward Burton in the #0 NetZero car for Haas CNC ... Read More

Who is Junior's New Crew Chief

Monday January 24, 2005
Pete Rondeau accepted the job as Dale Earnhardt Jr's crew chief for the 2005 season. But who is he? What has he done before that caught the eye ... Read More

NASCAR SimRacing Preview

Monday January 17, 2005
Next month EA Sports will release the newest NASCAR game for the PC called NASCAR SimRacing. Targeted at the demanding sim racing fans EA is trying to deliver the ... Read More

NASCAR Changes Provisional Rules

Thursday January 13, 2005
An interesting change on qualifying procedures was announced recently. After race #6 this season if you are in the top 35 in points you are guaranteed a starting spot. ... Read More

Daytona International Speedway

Monday January 10, 2005
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup preseason testing begins on Tuesday January 11th in Daytona. Odd-numbered points finishers from 2004 will take to the track this week with the even-numbered finishers testing ... Read More

Skinner Back To Trucks

Monday January 10, 2005
Mike Skinner won the very first Craftsman Truck Series Championship back in 1995 before moving up to a lackluster Cup career. In 2005 he'll have a chance to do ... Read More

Hutchens Out, HANS Only in 2005

Thursday January 6, 2005
Based on NASCAR testing the HANS device provides better protection than the Hutchens harness. As a result the Hutchens device is no longer acceptable in NASCAR and all drivers ... Read More

Robby Gordon Leading Dakar Rally

Monday January 3, 2005
NASCAR's own Robby Gordon has won two of the first three stages in the Dakar Rally. This year the rally runs 5,566 miles from Barcelona, Spain to Dakar, Senegal. ... Read More

How far are they going?

Sunday January 2, 2005
Which is longer, the Sharpie 500 at Bristol or the Aarons 499 at Talladega? How does NASCAR know how many laps to race each weekend? Is it laps, miles or ... Read More

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