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NASCAR “driver” Robby Gordon decided the press needed a reason to write about him. So last weeks decision to weigh in on the Danica Patrick story saying she had an advantage because of a weight differential over her male counterparts isn’t surprising. Also not shocking is the general condemnation he received from both the racing [...]

This weeks NASCAR Cesspool threatens to become the “Cess-ocean” with an over abundant amount of deserving entrants. First lets look at the “teammates” that did their syncronized swimming routine in the cesspool:
“Team” Ganassi: Casey Mears and Sterling Marlin tangled on lap 216. Mears finished 34th 12 laps adrift from the leader and Marlin’s [...]

Excuse the snarky title but when a NASCAR race sets a new yellow flag record (22) and averages just over 17 laps between them it’s hard to be too serious. Added to the record 13 yellows unfurled during the Busch race Saturday night I bet the “levigation” issue that produced record speeds, and one racing [...]

NUERBURGRING, Germany

Dan Wheldon has become the first Briton to win the Indianapolis 500 since Graham Hill in 1966 in a race that will forever be remembered for the drama created by Danica Patrick.
Although the 89th running of the Indy 500 ended under a caution flag after Sebastien Bourdais smacked the wall on lap 198 of 200 [...]

Robbie Gordon, current NASCAR back marker, and former Indy Car driver can’t win jack. Why?
Because he’s as dumb as a box of Vanilla Waffers!
What you say you take offense at such a slight on your favorite driver! Well tough, live with it. In fact those that should be pissed are all females and specificly Danica [...]

For all the “Johnny come lately” NASCAR fans whose memory doesn’t preceed the Jeff Gordon era. The Wood Bros long time NASCAR stalwarts, and current owner of the #21 Ford Taurus, have a history of innovation at “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” the Indy 500.
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Wood Brothers

Normally you wouldn’t expect youth to prevail at one of [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cup.jpg]NASCAR’s[/avatar] best race tracks, on one of it’s biggest weekends. Normalcy took the holiday weekend off and Kyle Busch survived record number of cautions to win Carquest 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The second half of the weekends youth movement finished fifth, 19 year old [...]

You know who you are, hate this:
Concord, NC — Jeff Gordon donated $1 million Friday for a children’s hospital at Northeast Medical Center that will be named in his honor.
The estimated $9.4 million hospital will be more than 26,000 square feet and have a 24-bed pediatric unit and five beds in a pediatric intensive care [...]

BUSTED:
AUSTIN (AP)

With a pole winning success rate of about once every 4 tries it is no surprise Ryan Newman will sit on the pole for the Coke 600. It was Newman’s fourth pole of the season

INDIANAPOLIS — Longtime Indianapolis Motor Speedway announcer Tom Carnegie was hospitalized Wednesday after he became ill during activities leading up to the Indy 500.
The 85-year-old Carnegie was interviewed onstage as part of Community Day. Afterward, he began feeling sick and was taken to Methodist Hospital.
“I’m doing very well and actually feeling a lot better,” Carnegie [...]

Girls for sale and fast cars.
Police say they have busted a brothel on a yacht in the Monte Carlo harbour, which had a view of the Monaco Grand Prix.
The yacht, in the Monte Carlo harbour last weekend, featured twenty five prostitutes who lured F1 spectators on board for $500 an hour, Britain’s Mirror reported.
Some windows [...]

The A1 Grand Prix series, which likes to bill itself as the World Cup of Motorsport, has announced 12 events, starting at Branda Hatch in September this year and finishing at the end of March 2006 at the Beijing Goldenport circuit in China. There will be two races at each event.
The calendar is still be [...]

Presented without comment except. Gimme another Moosehead… eh!
CHARLOTTE N.C.
Robbie Weiss, the West Coast [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cup.jpg]NASCAR[/avatar] promotions man in charge of helping formulate stock-car racing’s international plans, is currently wrestling with enough ventures to keep his tiny four-man staff running in overdrive.
Plans for NASCAR’s 2006 return to Mexico City have become a major focal point, but NASCAR’s [...]

TOLEDO OH - Two rain delays and more than a few fender benders made for a long day Sunday afternoon at Toledo Speedway, but the finish was well worth the wait.
ARCA RE/MAX Series veteran Ken Schrader, in his own Federated Auto Parts Chevrolet, squared off with fellow veteran Frank Kimmel in an epic short-track duel [...]

And as the music stops Rondeau is out and Steve Hmiel is sitting pretty as “interim” crew chief of #8 Budweiser Chevy.
This comes as no surprise to me, although some people clearly are (just for info this was trackbacked, then deleted by the petulent child on the other end). A quick review of in-car communication [...]

From the get-go I have thought Charlotte NC has been the front runner to host NASCAR’s future Hall of Fame. The area has the history, infrastructure (including a future “NASCAR monorail” suggested by Bruton Smith) and now the cash.
The North Carolina Senate gave its final approval Monday to a temporary 2 percent increase in the [...]

The Long Beach Grand Prix, the most successful street race in America, will remain a Champ Car World Series event in 2006 and beyond with the purchase of the assets of the Grand Prix from Dover Motorsports by two of the owners of Champ Car.
An announcement will be made today that the race has been [...]

Ralf is whining about big brother Michael.
Ralf Schumacher has accused older brother Michael of endangering their lives with a risky overtaking maneuver at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Michael tried to squeeze in-between the wall and his brother’s Toyota in the last lap on the straight, just before the checkered flag, in Sunday’s race. Ralf avoided any [...]