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“Order… order in the court! Mr. Leghorn I will not enter those bunched panties into evidence!”
The heavyweight fight between NASCAR and AT&T was ruled a no decision Thursday by U.S. District court judge Marvin H. Schoob in Atlanta. Schoob listened to almost four hours of arguments from NASCAR, AT&T during the preliminary injunction hearing.
At the [...]

You have a new boss.
Toyota F1 announced today team boss Tsutomu Tomita will step down at the end of June and be replaced by Tadashi Yamashina.
“I am looking forward to celebrating Toyota’s first victory in Formula One, which I believe will happen sooner rather than later,” said Tomita, who publicly apologized earlier this year for [...]

People are funny, tiny people like kids are even funnier. Buster Keaton was funny.
But for shear Comedic Gold nothing tops a politician. Add in the Big Apple, its Mayor, a local politician from the Bald-Headed Step Child and a very large tract of vacant land and hilarity ensues.
At issue is the 675-acre site ISC now [...]

UPDATED: As you can see the mysteriously and incredibly shrinking text has been eradicated. The problem was contained in the coding for the Technorati links at the bottom of each post.
I may stay with this theme although it has a problem with individual post pages slipping the sidebar to the bottom. (and all posts in [...]

To many commercial breaks fer ya bucko? Too many graphic insets during the live race coverage?
Stop yer complainin’ mate, it could be worse, much worse.
For instance, you could be an Australian V8 Supercar fan tuned into last weekends event at Pukekohe Park Raceway.
You were happy as a clam marinated in Waikato Draught and dipped in [...]

Well… at least we now know why Stewart bugged out and didn’t offer any interviews after his second place finish at PIR, he was hot. But not from being in a 140

For a sport that is inexorably tied in some minds to the type of idiocy on display in such things as Talladega Nights it’s surprising (sadly) someone from the academic community can so precisely define NASCAR’s culture so elegantly.
Jim Wright a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida has a valid “excuse” however, [...]

With apologies to Howard Morris who directed With Six You Get Egg Roll, a semi-classic that debuted in 1968.
In the three plus decades since things have become more efficient and now it only takes four NASCAR officials, Brian France, Paul Brooks, Robbie Weiss and Ken Clapp to “get egg roll.”
In Beijing, China.
NASCAR Chairman Brian France [...]

Four time Cup champion Jeff Gordon teamed up with renowned Bay Area chef Victor Scargle to prepare a gourmet meal at the Infineon Raceway for more than 50 Northern California media members.
Gordon who won his first career race at Phoenix Int. Raceway Saturday night and Scargle prepared poached Alaskan halibut and grilled Bigeye Tuna.

Childlike, sometimes ingenious, but in general a likeable buffoon are the most common descriptions of the U.K.’s Mr. Bean.
His most endearing quality, in a comedic sense, is his ability to take the most convoluted path in solving life’s everyday problems.
There is no “point A to point B” in Bean’s life, getting to the end point [...]

Question, how many debris caution flags does it take before a title sponsor retroactively changes its name?
Your results, and the sponsors, may vary but for my purposes four of six should suffice.
Be that as it may, Smoked got smoked when it counted most and Jeffy finally captured his 76th win tying Dale Sr. for sixth [...]

“Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?”
“I checked it very thoroughly,” said Deep Thought,” and that quite definitely is the answer.
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.”
Meanwhile the “law firm” [...]

“I’m not sure Jerry, with the first 10 laps run under caution thanks to Aric Almirola and Shane Huffman, assisted by Mr. ‘Collateral’ damage Raines as a side show, it looked more like the ‘Bashers Supermarkets 200,’ back to you Doc.”
“Thanks Allen Bestwick, I always thought Bashas’ slogan was ‘Thank you for Being a [...]

Three times a charm as they say and NASCAR’s CORN makes its third appearance this weekend in the Meatball Marinara 500, a/k/a Subway Fresh 500, a/k/a Subway Fresh 312. (312? - don’t ask)
The CORN faces its biggest test as it debuts on a one-mile track, twice the distance of its two previous tests, and at [...]

Well, you get the idea of what would fill up Kimi’s other hand:
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, locked in a three-way tie for the Formula One championship lead, feels he should have won all three grands prix so far this season.
“Twenty two points are a good amount…but I think I could have got all the available points,” [...]

Hmmm…, what to do? Oh what to do….?
I know, let’s ask Joe Ruttman. “Joe, at your ripe old age of 62 what do ya wanna do, be a greeter at Sam’s or Wal-Mart?”
“Hell no,” Joe says, “I’m gonna do me some truck racin’!”
In other “resurrection news,” Eddie Van Halen will serve as an honorary NASCAR [...]

Greg Corner, crew chief for Marcos Ambrose has been fined for rules transgressions during the O’Reilly 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Corner was fined $2,000 for three different rule violations arising from an unapproved rear axle housing fitted to the #59 Ford Fusion. The infraction was found during the opening day’s technical inspection.

And in late breaking [...]

There have been a number of articles in the last few weeks discussing the high costs of competing at the NEXTEL Cup level.
This past week Jack Roush expressed his concern GM’s introduction of its first engine expressly designed for NASCAR competition holds the potential to start an arms race of sorts and force the purses [...]

The crime report:
From September 2001 to July 2005 Michael L. Leffingwell represented himself as someone with a plan, a plan to separate individuals and companies from their money.
According to court records Leffingwell is a construction worker who received NASCAR event credentials “to race” in NASCAR events four times in the time frame already noted.
Putting to [...]

Just who is that man?
It’s in the eyes. Do ya see it?
If not, there is another ever so slight, and I do mean slight, clue to the drivers identity contained in the image.
But let’s leave those eyes staring at ya for a minute and tread deep into speculative waters.
David Richards, a former BAR and Benetton [...]