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Wasn’t it couple weeks ago Joe Gibbs Racing issued a statement stating Bobby Labonte had a valid contract with JGR and it would be honored?
And isn’t it also true the more adamant the statement, the more likelihood NASCAR related rumors proceeding such statements become fact?
Such is the case with JGR and Bobby Labonte.
Joe Gibbs Racing [...]

Carl Edwards is making the best of NASCAR’s Chase media spotlight. By storming from sixth to first in the closing laps at TMS, he “did the double” by winning for the second consecutive week.
Following Edwards across the line were fellow Roushketeers Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth (who led the most laps) making it the [...]

A1 Grand Prix’s first event outside Europe - at Eastern Creek outside Sydney Australia - had a bit of everything, and more of the same. Pre-race festivities included the drivers visiting famed Bondi Beach for a surfing “competition.” Won handily by who else, the Aussie’s and Kiwi’s, as the remainder of “the field” did [...]

Kevin Harvick put a halt to Ryan Newman’s run of five straight [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/bgn.gif]Busch Series[/avatar] wins by capturing the O’Reilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. The #21 Chevy driver crossed the [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/check-flag.bmp]finish line[/avatar] more than two seconds ahead of Greg Biffle. The victory was Harvick’s fourth of the season and 17th of his Busch career.
In the [...]

I’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop.
He [Biffle] said Johnson got around NASCAR’s rules, which limit each team entry to seven private tests during the season. Biffle said Johnson tested a car with the No. 25 of teammate Brian Vickers displayed on it at a recent test at Phoenix, where the series heads next [...]

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Nicholas Lapierre maintained Team France’s domination in the A1 Grand Prix after setting a comfortable aggregate pole position at Eastern Creek. So comfortable with his time the team parked the car and didn’t run the fourth and final qualifying session.
Lapierre, series points leader, ended up half a second faster than the sum of the two [...]

Taking the first position in NEXTEL Cup qualifying has been an easy lesson learned for Penske South’s Ryan Newman. Newman won his 8th pole this season and 35th in his career for Sunday’s “Francis Ferko 500” at Texas Motor Speedway (an event “won” by Ferko in a lawsuit filed against NASCAR). It also moved Newman [...]

With the PGA Tour making it official - they are going to a NASCAR like Chase playoff in 2007 - a few of the drivers commented on the announcement:
Brandon Whitt, Driver, #38 DW Boogity Grill Tundra: “Will it work? I don’t know. There are a lot of differences between golf and stock car racing. I [...]

I’m fed up! All the way to HERE.
What started as a couple of “journalists” (one from Scranton Pa. and one from, well I’m not sure, maybe the moon judging by his nonsense) who thought it would be to their advantage to pen mostly incoherent anti-NASCAR screeds due to the current gas prices has turned [...]

It’s getting scary folks. real scary!
The New York Post reports that NASCAR is developing a multimedia platform for preschoolers that will include an animated series, books, DVDs and other product spin-offs, according to Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily.
Reporter Adam Buckman of the Post says the NASCAR Jr. series will feature “a circle of friends who, [...]

Looks like F1 Ace Ass Jenson Button is feeling the heat after his remarks a week ago on female drivers competing in his choosen profession.
Jenson made the comments about women racers to FHM Magazine, stating that “one week of the month you wouldn’t want to be on the circuit with them, would you? A girl [...]

No, I know what you’re thinking. You haven’t experienced a flash back to Slick Willie’s time in the White House.
The GM type Hummers are in the news. HUMMER Division and Robby Gordon Motorsports have joined together to take on the Dakar Rally, widely considered to be the most grueling off-road race in the world due [...]

Jebus I’m HOT this week.
First the Carl Edwards NASCAR win prediction, then the release from contractual obligations for K. Busch and J. McMurray that was predicted long ago. And now this:
For the second time in three years, 1997 champion Jacques Villeneuve could be about to find himself without an F1 home. Although the French Canadian [...]

… when you’re so correct, so often. I told ya so, hold your applause to the end please!
Kurt Busch and Jamie McMurray have been released from their contract obligations for 2006 and will move on to Penske Racing and Roush Racing respectively, according to a broadcast report.
Roush Racing has released defending Nextel Cup champion Busch [...]

Why did it take ten days to correct this story as reported first by NASCAR Daily and picked up by several other news outlets. It was reported DEI development driver Ryan Moore had been relesed from his DEI contract stemming from his actions in the Busch North Series