Tag: Pocono Raceway

Constable’s Corner: Parties at Long Beach, and Pocono?

Mike Shaw

Yes, it has been a long time since I last wrote to you, the fans of Open Paddock. You can thank; warrants being served, people being sued, moves involving protections from abuses being supervised, my lady friend moving (not related to the item before in any way), numerous college research papers, training at the pistol range, countless law enforcement meetings, a bad virus, locus, volcanoes, lions, tigers, bears, and a tendency to put things off as a short list of reasons why the lack of posts.   One thing I…

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The Spike has returned…to Indianapolis!!! Can you smell what The Spike…is cooking???

Mike Shaw

Well I am back—not that I really left Open Paddock. Yes, I will return for another season of Op-Ed columns for Open Paddock. Where did I go? Well, toward the end of last season I was being paid by another website to write for them. (My name not attached to the articles, but when you get paid that’s fine).   I won’t name the site for the moment, it is up in the air if the site will be back. It was funded and created by a company that was…

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Spikeday: INDYCAR back to California, could Pocono be next?

Mike Shaw

The INDYCAR Series is “ going, going,…back, back…to Cali”! Yes, I never thought I would love to see the day I referenced the Notorious B.I.G. . Then again, how many INDYCAR fans never thought the series would return to California Speedway?  However we learned earlier in the week the series came to an agreement to race again at the 2 mile oval. For fans of ovals this is a welcome announcement, not only a oval is added to make up for the loss of the Twin Ring from the schedule.…

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Indy Hump Day Report, On the bubble: Motegi!

Mike Shaw

Hey man, don’t Tweet-kill my buzz! Yes we all saw the IZOD INDYCAR Series get a ton of attention from a Twitter fight. Tomas Scheckter behaving like an 8th grade bully, taunting the emotionally weakest classmate on-line. Yeah sure Graham put it out there he was single, doesn’t excuse the childish behavior from the South African driver. I mean I talked about my father passing, is it then ok to make jokes about my dead father since, I mentioned it on-line? Only if you’re a total *******! While much of…

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