Frank Buhrman, Author at Pure Thunder Racing

The New NASCAR Season is Almost Here; Why Am I Not More Excited?

I have to keep reminding myself: the season is about to start. Yet when I start surfing online, my sports“clicks”[…]

Everybody remembers the trains, and I do, too. There was just something about watching a really good stock car race[…]

My mind can take me down some pretty twisty rabbit holes, given half the chance. Here’s how one of them[…]

(Eventually, I’m going to work some history in here. It’s way down below.) Now that we’re done with two consecutive[…]

We all know that institutional/corporate histories focus on the good stuff, maintaining/enhancing the “brand,” as it were. Most people who[…]

I’m stepping way out of my comfort zone for this one. I grew up more than 500 miles from Atlanta,[…]

In Dave Fulton’s recent article about Richmond’s Junie Donlavey and the first Southern 500 (1950), he quotes Donlavey explaining the[…]

Now that the Talladega circus is over, it’s time for the old grump to knock NASCAR’s longest track and argue[…]

There are smart people saying this, so it must be right, right? Americans are sweeping aside NASCAR and IndyCar and[…]

April 7 isn’t one of those days brimming with great moments in history. According to one source, the “biggie” in[…]