Ryan McGee

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Ryan McGee, a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, is the author of "ESPN Ultimate NASCAR: 100 Defining Moments in Stock Car Racing History."

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Ryan McGee's NASCAR Now Segment

Ryan McGee

ESPN The Magazine senior writer Ryan McGee has a blog on this website -- this website will be part of Insider next week, as...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 04, 2009

The Hard Sell

Ryan McGee

Down at the local GM dealership the boys are nervous. In the shadow of downtown Charlotte, a group of car salesman sat in the shade outside their sho...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 03, 2009

Bring Back Double Duty

Ryan McGee

500 miles is great. 600 miles is better. Driving 1,100 miles in a matter of hours? That's Memorial Day perfection. But sadly, because a very small nu...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2009

The Drive to Darlington

Ryan McGee

Travelling is a pain in the butt. Planes, rental cars, racetrack traffic, layovers, bad hotels, worse food … we all know the drill. But there i...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 12, 2009

Why NASCAR Should Be At Churchill

Ryan McGee

...the racers. Most of these guys came up racing on dirt. Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, you name them, they've all crossed it up sideways in the clay on...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 05, 2009

Crash, Burn...Learn?

Ryan McGee

And they walked away … With all due respect to "Gentleman start your engines," these are the four most popular words in motorsports. Nothing i...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 28, 2009

The NASCAR Advice Columnist

Ryan McGee

...at your local short track? Help is here my 5W30 covered brothers and sisters, because Dr. Racy Ryan, the Internet's only motorsports advice columnist, is back on the crankcase. A founding member of the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 21, 2009

To The Top of Rattlesnake Hill

Ryan McGee

In 1997, the first morning of my first trip to the Phoenix International Raceway, I had a list of about 50 things I needed to do, from knocking out so...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 14, 2009

The Track that Ate the Heroes

Ryan McGee

With all due respect to the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and Ben Franklin, when I found myself with some time to kill in Philadelphia I was on the ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009

How Not To Cheat In NASCAR

The late Smokey Yunick, the greatest rule-bender in motorsports history, described slipping past NASCAR inspectors as "walking under a snake's belly."...

Story | Conversation | April 06, 2009

The Timeless Victory

Ryan McGee

As Denny Hamlin streaked beneath the checkered flag at the Martinsville Speedway one year ago, his mind immediately leaped not to the fact that he had...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 24, 2009

Starting Five

Ryan McGee

Two or three times a week, I drive by the construction site where the NASCAR Hall of Fame and the adjoining NASCAR office tower inch their way up from...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 18, 2009

Hairpocalypse Now

Ryan McGee

...stars…or proof that they are in need of some very intense psychotherapy. Exhibit A: Hey Ryan, have you noticed that Jimmie Johnson hasn't run very well since he grew that beard over...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 10, 2009

Have car, will race

Ryan McGee

Every day at Hendrick Motorsports, no fewer than 500 people report to work at a sprawling compound of massive race shops packed with technology that w...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2009

Racy Ryan's NASCAR Advice Column

Ryan McGee

...axle grease-covered brothers and sisters, like an NHRA Safety Safari of the mind. I, Dr. Racy Ryan, the Internet's only licensed motorsports advice columnist, am here to heal your wounds and help you...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 03, 2009