Doug Richert joins Speed Channel

Doug Richert is now officially an Speed Channel employee. The former championship winning crew chief (he won it with Dale Earnhardt back in 1980) will join Speed Channel and provide analysis for their various NASCAR programs and will also be in the booth for select Craftsman Series Truck races, when Michael Waltrip can not be there.

[Source: Speed Channel PR]

Damn that "Carpet Eater"

Ah, good times on NASCAR Raceday as Jimmy Spencer screws up Patrick Carpentier's last name pronouncing it "Carpet Eater". The boys on "This Week in NASCAR" had a field day with that.



Too funny.

Is NASCAR trying appeal to "Carpet Eaters?" Wait, what??? (Awful Announcing)

TV ratings up for the All-Star Weekend

Say what you will about television broadcasts these days, once again tv ratings for an NASCAR event have are up with a 6% increase from last year and a 12% jump from 2006 when the race was broadcasted on the FX network.

The truck race on Friday night also had improved tv ratings with a 41% increase from last year. Of course another thing to figure in is how many people had Speed Channel compared to last year, but still its nice to see an increase in tv ratings.