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Chad McCumbee, who stared in the ESPN movie “3″ playing Dale Earnhardt Jr. stared on the track Saturday winning his first ARCA event at Nashville.
McCumbee, who started sixth passed pole sitter Cale Gale (his first career ARCA pole) on the final restart with three laps remaining en route to the victory.
“I don’t know if he [...]

Carl Edwards made it back-to-back Busch Series wins at Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday as he was victorious in the Pepsi 300. Edwards posted his fourth top five finish in four career starts with the win.
As one of the few Cup drivers (comparatively speaking) that are running the full Busch schedule in 2007 he threatens to [...]

F1’s Battle of Britian has moved to Sepang, Malaysia and Honda’s Jenson Button has gotten off the first volley of cannon fire directed at McLaren’s British rookie Lewis Hamilton.
A defiant Jenson Button roared “I’m still No.1″ as he geared up for tomorrow’s grueling Malaysian Grand Prix.
But words aren’t horsepower.
Other than an inflated ego you have [...]

In “honor” of the holiday weekend, and an honest effort at not getting too long winded on a single subject, the Half-Vast Staff

Toro Rosso chiefs deliberately made Scott Speed wait for his 2007 contract in order to instill in him a more “professional attitude”, according to team co-owner Gerhard Berger.
The Austrian, who was a ten time winner in formula one, confirmed speculation to the “APA’ news agency that the long delay was a ploy in reaction to [...]

You can add the NASCAR beat reporters to the above title.
If you haven’t noticed in the last 24 hours the news wires have been flooded with stories noting the Petty clan offering its support for a NASCAR franchising scheme of team ownership.
My first question is why this has bubbled to the surface now? NASCAR President [...]

In this second edition of what may, or may not be a regular feature by the Half-Vast Staff™ Staff of Full Throttle we offer this list of current and past NASCAR stars:
Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, and Alan Kulwicki, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Kenny Wallace, Johnny Benson, Ted Musgrave, Reed Sorenson, and David Stremme.
And this list [...]

(NOTE: For those unaware
PeterG is a frequent commenter around these parts with a demonstrated dislike for Hermann Tilke and his circuit designs)
A planned $650 million formula one-style circuit near Australia’s famous Gold Coast could pose a real challenge to the status of the current GP in Melbourne.
Local media sources say the proposed 6km track at [...]

Say good night HWSBO, the Upper Left Coast Adventure is over. At least the Kitsap County portion of it is.
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Well now, isn’t this special.
ESPN, who bought themselves some NASCAR Nation street cred with the purchase of broadcast rights to NASCAR events, has extended their racing media portfolio with the acquisition of Jayski.com.
Described as “one of the (ahem… ) top NASCAR information sites on the Internet” Jayski’s site has been online since 1996 and for [...]

There is a long history of April Fools Jokes foisted on the general public. The more outlandish the hoax the better.
The Taco Bell Corporation once announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell and Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA [...]

This from WSOC.TV (6:07 pm EDT April 2, 2007)
ALEXANDER COUNTY, N.C. — A member of a NASCAR team was shot to death outside his home in Alexander County late Saturday.
Jimmy Sprinkle, 44, was a mechanic for Brian Vickers, a driver for the Red Bull racing team. He had been a member of the test team [...]

I wonder how this will work?
SPEED plans to air its first-ever broadcast of the NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge - part of NASCAR’s All-Star weekend at Lowes Motor Speedway May 19 - and also share it with visitors to New York

Jimmie Johnson, again.
The reigning NEXTEL Cup Champion continues to lay aside of any thoughts a disease called “complacency” will infect his chances of a repeat championship by capturing his third Cup win in six tries Sunday at The Paper Clip.
And don’t tell anyone NASCAR’s introduction of the CORN has given the garages of Hendrick or [...]

Michael Yaki is a lawyer of Japanese-American descent. More specifically a lawyer with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He’s also a NASCAR fan.
In today’s Star Telegram he writes an editorial, The race cars and the racism, that centers on Toyota’s entry to NASCAR’s premier series.

In it he describes some of the hateful screeds that [...]

Not that I have anything against this idea but it just strikes me as very Rudyard Kipling-like: “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet…”
John Barnes, a longtime IndyCar team owner and the general manager of Panther Racing, is suggesting holding joint IRL, NASCAR Nextel Cup as a way [...]