Happy Fantasy Auto Racing New Year!

January 15, 2010

The return of One & Done is right around the corner but we’ve got this challenge ready for you right now! This season we also invite you to On Pit Row’s Yahoo! Fantasy group for a prize pack that includes:

•    5 DVD set - Dale Earnhardt - 10 Greatest Wins
•    The Blount Report: NASCAR’s Most Overrated and Underrated Drivers, Cars, Teams, and Tracks by ESPN’s Terry Blount
•    No Fear Racing (Boris Said) T-Shirt
•    Kevin Harvick Bobblehead
•    Armor All Complete Car Care Kit (Armor All brand Protectant, Glass Wipes, Wash & Wax, Tire Foam)

Go here to sign up. There’s only 50 spots available so hurry!
•    ID# 2262
•    password “fantasy”

Fantasy content for the 2010 season will be brewing On Pit Row all week long!

Monday (1/18) is the start of my five-part Fantasy NASCAR Primer Series and I’ll be on the air Tuesday (1/19) to discuss that and more!

NASCAR Fantasy Experts Picks: Tums Fast Relief 500 from Martinsville

October 21, 2009

Expert Website Pick to Win Finish Experts Avg
Ryan Rantz On Pit Row Jimmie Johnson 2 7.35
James Jones On Pit Row Jeff Gordon 5 7.84
Mike Harmon FOX Sports Jimmie Johnson 2 9.84
Dennis Michelsen RaceTalkRadio.com Jimmie Johnson 2 10.03
Roger Rotter FOX Sports Jimmie Johnson 2 10.13
Gerritt Ritt FOX Sports Kurt Busch 17 10.16
Yahoo Users Yahoo! Sports Jimmie Johnson 2 10.23
Cheryl Lauer Speed Couch Jeff Gordon 5 10.68
Eric Brewer Jeff Gordon 5 11.42
Darren Fauth Fantasy NASCAR Names Jimmie Johnson 2 11.65
Lou Lauer USAR Fans Jimmie Johnson 2 11.81
Eric McClung On Pit Row Jeff Gordon 5 11.87
Charlie Turner On Pit Row Jimmie Johnson 2 12.06
P J Walsh FantasyNASCARPreview.com Jeff Gordon 5 12.52
Eric McGuire FFToolbox Jimmie Johnson 2 13.10
Bob Ellis NASCAR Ranting and Raving Jimmie Johnson 2 15.77
Jon Rodgers Gillette Young Guns Challenge Winner Kyle Busch 4 18.52

Congratulations to the One and Done Spring Thing Winner!

June 1, 2009

On Pit Row’s first ever NASCAR fantasy game - the 13 race One and Done Spring Thing - is over.

Nice job by jlagg22 in coming from behind on the last race to grab first place and the Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure package that goes with the win.

All in all, we doled out 23 prizes during the 13 race game. Not bad for a free NASCAR fantasy game. Game number two - The One and Done Race to the Chase starts this week with the Pocono 500. Prizes for the One and Done Race to the Chase will be announced later this week, but you won’t be disappointed.

Picks will open on Wednesday this week, giving us an extra day to switch things over. As always, picks will close at 4 PM ET Saturday. If you played the first game, you’re already entered for the next one. If you haven’t played - come on, what’s stopping you? This is the easiest NASCAR fantasy game on the planet!

Sign up today! Click here.

NASCAR Fantasy Experts Picks: Aaron’s 499 at Talladega

April 24, 2009

Expert Website Pick to Win Finish Experts Avg
James Jones On Pit Row Tony Stewart –23 8.4
Mike Harmon FOX Sports Kurt Busch – 6 9.3
Bob Ellis NASCAR Ranting and Raving Tony Stewart –23 9.6
Ryan Rantz Tony Stewart –23 10.1
Dennis Michelsen RaceTalkRadio.com Tony Stewart –23 11
Cheryl Lauer Speed Couch Jeff Gordon –37 11.7
Darren Fauth DarrenFauth.com Kurt Busch – 6 12.3
Gerrit Ritt FOX Sports Kurt Busch – 6 12.4
Yahoo Users Yahoo! Sports Jimmie Johnson –30 12.4
Eric Brewer Tony Stewart –23 12.5
Charlie Turner On Pit Row Kurt Busch – 6 13.1
Mike Maruska –44 13.2
Eric McGuire FFToolbox Kyle Busch –25 15.3
Roger Rotter FOX Sports KurtBusch –  6 15.9
Jeff Gutowski –44 16.5
P J Walsh FantasyNASCARPreview.com Kyle Busch –25 16.8
Lou Lauer USAR Fans Tony Stewart –23 17
Jon Rodgers Gillette Young Guns Challenge Winner Kasey Kahne –36 18.4
Eric McClung KFFL Fantasy NASCAR Blog Jeff Gordon –37 19.4
Lori Munro RaceTalkRadio.com –44 20.3

New On Pit Row

April 18, 2009

We’re pretty excited about some new additions to OnPitRow.com and I haven’t done a very good job of getting the word out. So pay attention. My job depends on it.

We have added some stats for fantasy racing players. These NASCAR fantasy racing stats are almost to the point of overkill and won’t be for everyone. But if you want to dig deep into past performance of specific drivers and particular race track stats for fantasy racing, check out our - still developing - drivers pages. You can view - and download - a complete set of NASCAR Loop data stats for any driver in our One and Done fantasy NASCAR pool. More content will be added to those pages soon. Watch this space, as they say. Here is David Ragan’s page for example.

And we have track stats for NASCAR fantasy gamers too. Check out the Phoenix International Raceway page for 40 pages of NASCAR Loop stats on PIR alone. The Talladega Superspeedway page is available too. As with the drivers stat pages, we will be adding more fantasy racing stats and information soon.

On the video front, check out our Bench Racing TV page when you have a chance. We’re posting Mindy Monday’s latest Monday Morning Crew Chief video there each week along with any other cool stuff we find. The folks at Shell Gasolines sent us an early copy of Kevin Harvick’s Old west Showdown spoof, which is now all over the place. But when we get them, we’ll post them for you.

Finally, if you haven’t noticed yet, the ON PIT ROW radio show is now available On Demand. We are finally hosting our own archived shows right here at OnPitRow.com on the Listen Live page. For a long time, ON PIT ROW’s web home was at RaceTalkRadio and we will always value that relationship. But we’ve wanted to host our own from the time we first started OnPitRow.com.

Stay tuned ’cause there’s more to come but if there’s anything that you want to see or hear, let us know. Thanks for joining us On Pit Row.

If you are thinking of doing any actual NASCAR betting you may be better served by finding actual NASCAR odds at a service that is involved in online wagering or something. We, most assuredly, are not.

Photo credit: Ring - or Round Girl Jen by BethAnne Heisler - OnPitRow.com

We Done Crashed Like Robby Gordon in a China Shop

March 29, 2009

No offense Robby - I am a big fan - but I wanted to get someone’s attention.

Due to a crashed drive in our server arsenal, OnPitRow.com and as a result, the One and Done NASCAR fantasy Game, were offline for much of Saturday.

All is well now and service has been back for several hours. As a result of all this, we extended the deadline to make a pick for the game until 2 PM EDT today. That’s about as long as we can hold it folks. So, if you were waiting until after qualifying, to pick on Saturday - I understand this BTW - you can still do so now.

If, for any reason, you can’t get to a computer or have some other issue, call me at ***_***_**** before 1 PM EDT today, and I’ll make your pick for you. You will need your user name and password, so that I can access your dashboard. This phone number will self-destruct at 1:01 PM EDT.

Play Free Fantasy Racing Game: Win 25 Bucks in Shell Gasoline

March 10, 2009

It isn’t too late to sign up for the One and Done free NASCAR fantasy racing game from OnPitRow.com. Even if you missed the first four races of our first game of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, you can still be a winner.

Every week, we will select a player at random who will win a great prize, regardless of how well - or poorly - their actual driver did that week. All you have to do to be eligible, is be a registered player in the One and Done game, and make a pick for the race that week. Winners will be selected by the OnPitRow.com Random Drawing Method.

The prizes for the March races will be $25 gas cards, compliments of Shell Gasolines, and Shell’s Nitrogen Enriched Gasoline product. See more about Shell gasoline technology here.

With spring on its way, make sure to clean-up your car’s engine too. Top automakers who introduced top detergency standards agree that a clean engine can give you better fuel efficiency, reduced emissions, and better performance. Shell Nitrogen Enriched continues to meet those standards.

The One and Done NASCAR fantasy racing game is FREE to play. It’s fun. All the cool people are playing. Except maybe you. So sign up here. You might just win something.

One and Done NASCAR Fantasy Racing News: Shelby 427

February 26, 2009

don’t tell me you watched the academy awards?

Race two is a wrap. The California race was long. And wet. And a good reason to use the remote. Eleven left in the One and Done Spring Thing - the first of three games in the 2009 One and Done season. We’ll finish this one at the race in Dover. Then, you win stuff and cinch those belts back up and do it again for thirteen more races. You get more prizes and then play the grand finale - the Chase for the One and Done Cup.

So tell your friends to sign up. After all, you’re a veteran at this now.

race 3: the shelby 427

Welcome to the home of the Rat Pack,bad Robert De niro movies and the  Busch brothers of NASCAR.

Four players picked Auto Club 500 winner Matt Kenseth last week and those guys are all near the top of the points.  Good job  - you lucky dogs. Who ‘ya gonna take this week, when Matty might just set a record for winning the first three One and Done races in history.? He might set a NASCAR record too.

You can view all the results for One and Done week two here.

next week: hot’lanta

Lets talk prizes. 

You all should know that the winner of the One and Done Spring Thing will receive a Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure package, good at several NASCAR tracks, including Talladega Superspeedway. You can read the experience of one of our past winners at that track right here.

The top ten finishers will win prizes in each game. I will have the details on those other prizes finalized this week. I think you’ll be happy with the possibilities. Stay tuned.

We’re also considering having a weekly prize, so that new players or players who miss making a pick for whatever reason, will still have a chance to win something. If we do the weekly award, it will be determined via the random drawing method.

e experts

Every week we’ll ask a few folks from around the NASCAR internet community to share who they think would be a good pick for the next race.
Dustin Long NASCAR beat writer for the  Landmark Newspapers likes the Biff. ” Got a feeling for Greg Biffle  as the winner. Roush makes it 3 in a row. Also, keep an eye on the #48. Let’s see how the #88 responds also.”
Veteran ARCA RE/MAX Series driver Brad Smith thinks it’s cousin Carl this time…”I just think the #99 is due. He’s been good and I just have a feeling that this is his week.”
Fast and Fabulous Valli is in the #24’s corner…”I think Jeff Gordon will take the win at LVMS because after coming close to the win in California, he was passionate, excited and pumped up about his team’s potential. I think a win for him is just around the corner.”
Backstretch Motorsports’ Bram is a history buff…” This week at Vegas will Matt Kenseth get #3?…if he does he’ll be defying an awful lot of odds stacked against him in the history books. But it’s time for another new record to be written and this team has been on fire, so I say Kenseth gets his name in the record books and leaves Vegas with the jackpot.”

Thunder Lounge king Luke remembers last year… “Ah Vegas. A city that seemingly has everything. While it doesn’t have Shakespeare’s this year it has another Columbia favorite on loan. Carl Edwards. When the tough get going Sunday, he’ll be out to prove that his oil lid is locked down tight.”

BethAnne Does ‘Dega

February 10, 2009

A year ago on February 21st I attended the Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure at Talladega Superspeedway. I won the 3 lap ride through our fantasy racing game and upgraded it to 6 lap drive.

Coming up on the anniversary of the event, I was looking fondly at the pictures taken and was surprised to see thatthe instructors and counselors in the pictures all seemed to be as into working there as much as we enjoyed playing there. This realization added a new level of fun to the whole experience and I will always remember it fondly. As I said to one of my buddies yesterday, Yes, I would do it again in a heartbeat!

Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler - OnPitRow.com

On Pit Row Fantasy Racing Leagues are for You

February 6, 2009

Are you or you organization looking for a fully customizable NASCAR fantasy racing game?

Tired of fantasy racing that only lets you use NASCAR Sprint Cup scoring rules?  Want to use a driver pool of Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series drivers or score points in Sprint and Nationwide races? We have all that and more for you in our commissioner service including in-race scoring, driver notes and original content.

You get the whole season from February to November, all 10 months, all NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races for only $49.95.

Get a free trial until March 15th, 2009. That’s right, play for free and pay only if you like it!
Sign up here for your free trial here!

League Features

  • Realtime In-Race Scoring
  • League News and Polls
  • Message Board and Chat
  • Home Page Customization
  • Live Draft
Roster and Scoring Options

  • Nationwide and Sprint Cup drivers
  • Custom Driver Tiering
  • Customized rosters and lineups
  • Trading
  • All NASCAR points and penalties
  • Cup-style lead a lap bonus
  • Cup-style most laps led bonus
  • Qualifying position
  • Finish position
  • Win from the pole bonus
  • Total laps led
  • Laps behind leader deduction
  • Positions behind leader deduction
  • Positions gained bonus
  • Positions lost deduction
  • Out of race penalties
  • Separate rules for Nationwide and Sprint Cup races
  • Up to 50 teams per league!

Build your own racing team. Put together your fantasy roster of drivers and compete like RCR, Roush, or Hendricks. You have total control over your team.

Set up your league today. Sign up here. It’s the fantasy racing commissioner service from OnPitRow.com.

If you are thinking of doing any actual NASCAR betting you may be better served by finding actual NASCAR odds at a service that is involved in online wagering or something. We, most assuredly, are not.

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