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The third round of the World Cup of Motorsports will be held on the famed Circuito do Estoril in Estoril, Portugal, the last stop on the European continet before heading south to Australia. The circuit’s list of drivers competing at Estoril is as legendary as it is long, including Alain Prost for McLaren-TAG Porsche to [...]

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, you click on the Renault F1 website and hear a winning, although now obsolete, V10 engine ’singing’ Queen’s We Are The Champions. Unbelieveable! Go ahead click it I dare you! It proves one thing, at least one Frenchman has a sense of humor.
The French marque might have [...]

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) on Tuesday pledged to support 18-year-old Filipino formula car driver Tyson Sy, currently campaigning in the Asian Formula Three Series (AF3), as he bids to make it to the Formula One circuit. Sy has a good opportunity to take the AF3 crown due to Series points leader Ananda [...]

As you can see I’ve changed the look a bit. I was getting very tired of the old one and thought the blue background would be closer to the design of the rest of the site, vice the icky yellowish brown color. Now that I’ve done that the header graphic looks like it could use [...]

BAKERSFIELD, California - When we all gathered in Bakersfield for Mesa Marin Raceway’s 28th, and final, October Classic we were assured that two things were going to happen: Mesa Marin was going to pull out all of the stops to make the 2005 Classic the biggest and best three days of racing in its long [...]

“DIRECTV Inks Deal With NASCAR as New Corporate Sponsor.”
The sponsorship agreement will enable DIRECTV to create consumer marketing and retail promotions targeting NASCAR’s 75 million fans, and leverage the power of the NASCAR brand in promotions for DIRECTV customers who have access to all networks on DIRECTV that air NASCAR events. The company says NASCAR [...]

Maybe it’s just me, but when writing an article about [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/irl.png]IndyCar[/avatar] Rookie of the Year Danica Patrick and yet another controversy a better choice of words should have been in order. “Patrick probed for postrace altercation with Lazier” As I said, maybe it’s just me.
This latest bruhaha - how many is that, or better yet [...]

After last weeks NEXTEL Cup event at Kansas the overnight TV ratings were reported as being lower than in ‘04. When the full report was compiled later in the week ratings were actually up by over 7% from the previous year.
This week after “Humpy’s Debacle” the overnights are showing a gain in viewership.
NBC’s broadcast of [...]

LEVIGATING! - HUMPY WHEELER, There one well deserving Cesspool entry. Obviously Saturday nights events were a disaster, as were the similar problems in the Busch Series in the Friday night prequel. Tony Stewart opined he may need a “renewal of my life insurance policy” during the event and before he cut down a tire and [...]

Fernando Alonso won the Chinese F1 Grand Prix to hand Renault its first Formula 1 Constructors’ title. Alonzo’s seventh seasonal win added an exclaimation point by going out a winner after clinching driver’s championship he took last month.
Kimi Raikkonen finished second, the Mercedes-powered team’s hopes draining away for the constructors crown when Juan Pablo Montoya [...]

The golfers in the audience will get the title reference, the rest will have to be content in knowing Humpy Wheeler struck a blow for those that like the Chase, and close title finishes. And more proof that levigating truly is a “hard habit to break.” Following on the heels of Fridays 14 [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/caution.jpg]cautions[/avatar] (an [...]

You do the next best thing, win a record setting fifth [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/bgn.gif]Busch Series[/avatar] event in succession. Ryan Newman accompished that fete, leading 133 of 200 laps, Friday evening at Lowes Motor Speedway.
Newman was followed across the line by fellow Cup driver Elliott Sadler. Paul Menard, Carl Edwards and Jason Leffler filled out the top five. [...]

Here are a few stories of the last few hours I either don’t have the time to detail or, truth be known, too lazy to write about.
Want a NASCAR video game on steroids?

A committee studying a proposal for a 1.5-mile NASCAR test track in North Carolina is looking at the possibility of shifting the focus [...]

Lowes Speedway has been leavened… err, elevated, ah… levigated, yea thats it. Humpy’s toy has been levigated to be as smooth as a baby’s butt (with a full application of Boudreaux’s Butt Paste) and Elliot Sadler promptly went out and grabbed the pole at a record 193.216 mph. “My whole body is shaking right now,” [...]

Brian France has said changes are on the way and the Mongol Hoards led by Genghis Roush and Kublai Hendrick will be banished to the dustbin of NASCAR history. In a highly secretive “communique” issued to five handpicked ink-stained wretches in Kansas, France threw down the gauntlet.
“HE, who shall be obeyed” has decreed [...]

The soon to be former head of Minardi Paul Stoddart has had a very long running feud with the FIA, Max Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone. The battles have been legendary. During the 2003 Canadian GP Stoddart was on the verge of disclosing the contents of the Concorde Agreement. The world was saved at the last [...]

More often than not when Bernie’s Boys attempt to leap the sport forward, they stumble into an open manhole. But this has to be promising:
HOPES of a resolution to the bitter infighting in the world of Formula One motor racing have taken a leap forward.
In a move that cleans up the sport’s ownership structure, Germany’s [...]

No one is immune from taking a dip in my weekly Cesspool so what better way to start than at the top. The very top. I think I’ll go whole hog and toss in Brian France this week. (And the crowd goes wild!!!) France announced this week NASCAR is looking into and will attempt to [...]

This a followup to my race report on the Bathurst 1000 V8 SuperCar event in Australia. During the event there was a highly unusual black flag for Series points leader and his co-driver that involved both drivers failing to wear their fire resistant balacavas. The local race officials are pissed and will start checking to [...]

Yea right, is that why Flavio is hotter than a wet hornet? ”The last lap happened,” ‘Flav’ said afterwards, ”and in the end it was a good race for sport.”
Indeed it was, the best in recent memory, and proved you don’t have to wear a championship crown to be the best driver in the world. [...]