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Many of us that are veterans of the U.S. Navy have “I Love Me Walls.”
Love Me Walls are places selected by a former, and on rare occasions current sailors, for the display of shadow boxes containing all the awards and commendations awarded by the Dept of the Navy and individual Commands during his/her service time.
In [...]

The “evil masses” have been heard (read Roush among others) and NASCAR is in the process of a rethink about its restrictive NEXTEL Cup testing schedule:
“It appears that we’ve got teams that want to test more and teams that want to test less, and teams that test on tires that are not made by our [...]

After last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix F1 supremo [lower cased with merit - ed] Bernie Ecclestone screamed for all to hear the powers that be (forgetting he is the power to be) should investigate McLaren for what he thought was manipulation of the race result via team “orders” given to McLaren’s 1-2 place finishers.
He went [...]

Thursday’s Super DIRT NorthEast modified series race at Middletown’s Orange County Fair Speedway will have a distinct NASCAR feel.
Carl Edwards, currently the NASCAR Busch Grand National series point leader and Jack Roush, his team car owner, are scheduled to appear at the event with Edwards expected to drive a big-block modified in the scheduled Advance [...]

IndyCar Series champion Sam Hornish Jr. can’t get enough racing these days.
Fresh off a fourth-place finish in last Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, the three-time IndyCar Series champion turned a few laps Tuesday in a stock car at Michigan International Speedway. Hornish was preparing for a possible run in the June 15 ARCA RE/MAX Series race at [...]

Thor’s Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It’s the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good.
The common good in this case is outlined in NASCAR’s rulbook, Sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 12-4-E (failure to comply with the [...]

Let me rephrase that, I don’t believe a word of it and am hauling up the BS Flag.
See if you don’t agree:
Las Vegas-based Fan1st.com, an online fan-driven racing community that gives fans the opportunity to sponsor and have their name on a Fan1st car racing in NASCAR’s Busch Series, today announced a new benefit that [...]

Your mission should you except it is to identify the track, driver and F1 machine in this video.

More than anything else this post is for a historical record, something to point to at a later date.
The spin-miesters, conspiracy theorists and just plain lunatics all whine about NASCAR’s use and or misuse of it’s rulebook. The Half-Vast Staff

And the rest of the Indy story is…
Tradition is synonymous with the 500, the place oozes the word from the strip of bricks at the finishline to the now misnamed Carb Day festivities.
The name Andretti is part of that tradition as much as any other at the speedway. Unfortunately the name Andretti more often than [...]

Kurt Busch had a plan for Sunday’s 600 at LMS. For a while it worked, starting from the second hole he dominated the first 180 laps then a meeting of the #2 with the wall and deflated Goodyear laid waste to his plan. His race ended just short of 3/4 mark and a new plan [...]

Indianapolis Motor Speedway has many traditions one of them being the early spring rains common in the mid-west that often determine the outcome of the 500.
Such was the case Sunday as the predicted showers interrupted the race just past the crossed flags for three hours then caused a premature checker flag to fly at the [...]

In an uneventful race through the streets of Monaco reigning World champion Fernando Alonzo started from the pole and was never headed, lapping all but his teammate, and Wonderkind, Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa who finished in the last podium spot.
The Spaniard’s second victory of the season took him back to the top of [...]

Dennis Setzer pick-up his 17th career NCTS victory, running the entire rain-delayed Ohio 250 without a pit stop Saturday at Mansfield.
To here some tell it his victory was the result of driving with a light right foot and conserving fuel. For example third place finisher Ken Schrader said: “Setzer has a real good foot. If [...]

You gotta love Texas Motor Speedway’s owner Eddie Gossage.
He’s second only to Humpy Wheeler as a promoter of both their own interests at their respective speedways but in the larger sense NASCAR aa a whole. They both hold Master degrees in Race Track Pimpology.
Gossage has looked on from afar and watched F1’s Bernie Ecclestone wax [...]

It isn’t every day news of a racing related lawsuit hits the wires and doesn’t have NASCAR listed as a defendant.
But today is one of those days.
A US appeals court has tossed to the rumble strip an attempt by US fans to get a financial do over by reclaiming their money after the FIAsco called [...]

Just two weeks after Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced he would be leaving DEI (Don’t Expect Interest) the team has signed 16 year old Trevor Bayne to a development contract.
“Who wouldn’t like to work with Dale Earnhardt, Jr.? He’s the top person in NASCAR, as far as marketing and sponsors and fans,” the former Gibbs High [...]

As Michael Waltrip continues to struggle, the latest being a crash in Charlotte that keeps him out of the 600, and his seasonal point remains at -27 Toyota’s marquee team has also missed the yearly power list of NASCAR personalities.
Frankly, and despite my continued “snark shots” I take at Mikey, I’m a little surprised he [...]

On what arguably is America’s greatest weekend of racing - assuming you believe The Greatest Spectacle in Racing and NASCAR’s longest race of the year deserve that title - why is the story about an ex-stripper being sentenced for fraud the headline on 19 of 38 stories crossing the wires in the last 6 hours.
Is [...]

It has to be!
How else to explain Hendrick Motorsports failing to win the pole for one of NASCAR’s marquee events? Go ahead, I dare you to spin a tale of why Jimmie Johnson sits in the eleventh row at his home track that doesn’t include black helicopters and mucho-denero payoffs?
And while adjusting that foil hat [...]