9 Results for jeff long

NASCAR better be worried about drivers' power

Ed Hinton

...No show, no NASCAR. At least not for long. Lay the events bare, vulnerable to the chronic...get something done -- such as Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon struggling to gain points on Jimmie Johnson...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009

Pearson's plight could be bad news for Johnson

Ed Hinton

...of his time. Pearson is long, long overdue to get his due. And Johnson is decades from getting his. If they gave Cup points for poignant philosophizing, Jeff Burton would be an eight-time...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2009

Standardized start times a victory for the fans

Ed Hinton

...m. or 8:00 p.m. It's long-cemented habit with you. The longer you have...Dale Earnhardt Jr., or the latest video of Jeff Gordon and family, are fine, in their place...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009

Cup regulars up to speed on road courses, too

Ed Hinton

...Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Robby Gordon, Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon. The first four starters -- Jimmie Johnson, Kurt...and guru of road racing techniques to the long-resistant Cup drivers. "Now, there are 15 or...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 08, 2009

With past as a guide, postponement the right call

Ed Hinton

...go signal, and let 'em scramble for it. Jeff Gordon won it, got to the winner's...the media do. Wee hours spent at racetracks long ago became mundane to me. I think it...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 24, 2009

15 years ago, Gordon won … and the tears flowed

Ed Hinton

...then …" It's been 15 years since Jeff Gordon won his first one, the Coca-Cola...tough guys to leave the kid alone, is long retired, long gone to the Fox broadcast booths...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 23, 2009

Little Widow made a big impression

Ed Hinton

...to a child changed the course of a life in the bud. I'd thought it was long gone, destroyed, rusted away in some junkyard, decades ago relegated to my memory. But there the Little...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 14, 2009

Take note, NASCAR: F1 gets it right

Ed Hinton

...Jeff Gordon with five. Best of all in the minds of a lot of fans, NASCAR might never have had reason to initiate the Chase. In 2003, the last year of the season-long...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 17, 2009

Penske back to its roots with Allgaier

Ed Hinton

...down and cherry-pick in what I've long thought should be an all-developmental series, NASCAR...up the next Ryan Newman.'" Allgaier brings a Jeff Gordon-ish résumé of having...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 20, 2009