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Standardized start times a victory for the fans

Ed Hinton

...hand and say, 'guilty,'" to initiating the time-tampering, he told a teleconference Wednesday. Further, he confessed, TV shouldn't have tampered with tradition in the first place. Here's the thing about you at...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009

Some advice for a fair-weather sport ...

Ed Hinton

...Karen Carpenter, might become bumper stickers and T-shirts. And that was one of the milder comments. TV viewers -- not to mention the fans at the tracks, who, by and large, can't come back...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 13, 2009

An afternoon in Tony's world

Ed Hinton

LOUDON, N.H. -- Let's title this blog "An Afternoon of Life Around Tony." You know who the leading candidate is to drive a third car for Tony Stewart...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 27, 2009

Bankruptcy won't keep GM out of NASCAR

Ed Hinton

DOVER, Del. -- NASCAR's sky will not fall with the bankruptcy of General Motors, any more than it has fallen with the bankruptcy of Chrysler -- which ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 31, 2009

With past as a guide, postponement the right call

Ed Hinton

...us until nearly 3. That 1 a.m. finish was the record folly for night racing for TV's sake, running into the rainstorm hours, until the July race at Daytona in 2005. That was...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 24, 2009

15 years ago, Gordon won … and the tears flowed

Ed Hinton

CONCORD, N.C. -- You look at the old footage and see the kid weeping and covering his face in disbelief in Victory Lane after his first Cup win, and i...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 23, 2009

Like Earnhardt, David Poole mastered his craft

Ed Hinton

...Web site, on top of the paper, on top of writing books, on top of doing guest TV appearances for ESPN and others -- I told him, "Poole, that's one job too many." "Probably," he...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 28, 2009

Little Widow made a big impression

Ed Hinton

The Little Widow still exists, pretty as ever. I found her -- actually, it -- through idle Easter Googling that led to my most serendipitous find eve...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 14, 2009

Chasing history down U.S. Highway 1

Ed Hinton

...of NASCAR's first big track -- and to this day its most difficult. We were shooting some TV advance material for ESPN at hallowed Darlington Raceway with its all-time maestro driver, David Pearson, and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 01, 2009

Hamlin plays the classy card at Martinsville

Ed Hinton

...climbed out of his car, maybe raging. But here's the first answer he gave to Fox TV reporters: "I'm honored to be on the racetrack with guys like Jimmie and Jeff [Gordon, who...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 30, 2009

Rough debut for owner-driver Marc Davis

Ed Hinton

...per race in sponsorship, from Howard University radio station WHUR and The Word Network, an urban religious TV channel. Top Nationwide cars run on about $200,000 per race. Marc Davis, a go-or-go...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 21, 2009

Davis hoping for start, then a fast one, at Bristol

Ed Hinton

...funding, primarily from Howard University radio station WHUR with support from The Word Network (an urban religious TV channel), doesn't match the $200,000 per race some of the top Nationwide teams spend. But...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 20, 2009

Raymond Parks taught Big Bill a thing or two

Ed Hinton

...throngs had had any idea who he was and what he did, they would have mobbed him. Television crews would have waited in line to interview him. Virtually everyone in the infield would have gravitated...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 15, 2009

There wasn't a nicer guy than Neil Bonnett

Ed Hinton

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Fifteen years ago today, the nicest man who ever drove in NASCAR -- and I use that superlative advisedly -- was killed here. N...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 11, 2009

The Daytona you don't hear about

Ed Hinton

...at the speedway. "I never go to the races, myself," I once heard a guy say on TV, in his star-spangled-banner bandanna. "I just come to look at everybody's scooter." Not many...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 09, 2009