The Racin' Network archive

The core of the site is eleven race pages, one for each 2000 Winston Cup event whose Wikipedia article cites an old Racin.net speed sheet: the spring race at Richmond, the June race at Dover, both Michigan dates, the July night race at Daytona, the July weekend at New Hampshire, the road course at Watkins Glen, the August night race at Bristol, the fall race at Martinsville, the fall race at Rockingham and the November race at Phoenix. Each page gives the date, the winner, the pole sitter, the laps and the distance as the Wikipedia race article records them, plus a short account of how the day went and a note on what the old Racin.net pages held for that weekend, which was practice and qualifying data rather than the race story itself. Around the races sit reference pages: a summary of the 2000 season and its standings, a plain history of NASCAR from the Streamline Hotel to the present Cup Series, a guide to the ten tracks involved, and driver notes for the names that recur across those eleven weekends. One more page covers Shawna Robinson, whose Wikipedia article cites a June 2000 Racin.net story from the ARCA series. Every number on the site was checked against the English Wikipedia article for that race, season or person before it was written down, and each page lists the articles it drew on. Where two sources disagree, the page says so instead of picking one quietly.

All eleven fall between round 11 and round 32 of a 34-race season, from a Saturday night at Richmond in May to a Sunday afternoon at Phoenix in November. Winners and dates below come from the Wikipedia article on the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

Nostalgia is not the reason. The reasons are more practical than that.

• Wikipedia editors cited the old speed sheets as sources. A citation that leads to a dead address is a broken record, and this site puts a page back at each of the 24 addresses those articles point to.
• The 2000 season deserves a plain summary in one place: Bobby Labonte's championship, 34 points races, two winning rookies, and a year that turned out to be Dale Earnhardt's last full one.
• Readers who arrive from a footnote often do not know a restrictor plate from a lucky dog. The reference pages explain the sport without assuming anything.
• The original site's habit was data from the garage rather than opinion from the press box. The rebuild keeps that habit: results, dates, names, sources.

A footnote should lead somewhere. That is the whole reason this site exists.

This site is independent. It is not affiliated with NASCAR, with any track, team or driver, or with the people who ran the original Racin.net, and it reuses none of their text. The domain lapsed and was re-registered; what stands here was written fresh from public records, chiefly the English Wikipedia articles listed under Sources on each page. Nothing is sold, no tickets are offered, and no live timing is claimed. If you spot an error, the editorial page explains how the site is sourced, what it attempts and what it leaves alone.