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Dale Jr. gets slammed for 100 points and crew chief Tony Eury Jr. gets fined $100,000 plus a suspension of six weeks?
Oh, and they docked DEI (Don’t Expect Interest) owner Teresa Earnhardt 100 owner points.
I have to ponder this a while. First impression is… HWSBO is off his frickin’ rocker!
UPDATE: DEI’s (Don’t Expect Interest) Max [...]

Tony Stewart will work as a SPEED pit reporter during the Nextel Open at LMS, a qualifying event that moves the top two finishers forward into the Nextel All-Star Challenge.
Nextel Cup Series drivers #99-Carl Edwards, #18-J.J. Yeley and #84-A.J. Allmendinger have all agreed to make themselves available as SPEED pit reporters for the Nextel All-Star [...]

Sebastien Bourdais has confirmed that he will be undertaking a further test with the Scuderia Toro Rosso team when he takes to the Paul Ricard circuit tomorrow where he will once again display his talent behind the wheel of a Formula One contender. (An F1 what!? - ed)
However, even though team boss Gerhard Berger has [...]

It’s not quite halftime in a game with 26 “periods” before the Chase but after a series of Pit Road screw-ups Joe Gibbs has called on his son to get the team together for a little “pep talk” in the locker room.
”It’s a lot like football, pretty cut and dry: You either get it done [...]

Me thinks someone has their priorities screwed.
What’s more important, completing a scheduled NASCAR test at Dover, or being better prepared for a non-points paying event this coming weekend?
The answer should be obvious, but the final decision by the NASCAR “brain trust” dismisses the obvious.
With the inclement weather postponing the Dodge Avenger 500 until Sunday afternoon, [...]

Sandby, with another Gordon win, and third place finish for Johnson, this week will see another spate of Hendrick’s haters slither out from under the woodwork.
With the team’s fifth CORN win and 8 of the last 9 Cup races the haters will all be in high dudgeon for a few days.
It could have been different, [...]

Erin Crocker was less than six laps from being the first female winner in ARCA RE/MAX Series history. But it was not to be, compliments of a hard-charging Erik Darnell, who passed Crocker on the 95th circuit of the 100-lap race to win the Buckle-Up Kentucky 150 Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway.
Darnell, in the Roush [...]

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa won his second straight Formula One race Sunday, holding off McLaren rookie Lewis Hamilton at the Spanish Grand Prix by 6.790 seconds.
The 22-year-old British rookie Hamilton seized the championship lead from McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso in only his fourth Formula One race.
Double world champion Alonso finished third, eclipsed before his 140,000 strong [...]

A large part of any sport’s mystique resides with its history.
Unfortunately, like the rest of us mere mortals, the iconic figures that are part of sport eventually pass onto a Heavenly ballpark, football pitch or racetrack in the sky.
Luckily, the racing icon pictured left is still with us. However given his advanced age I question [...]

Stealers Wheel Lyrics?
Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you,
And I’m wondering what it is I should do,
It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I’m all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
It could be, but I [...]

The Dodge Avenger 500 scheduled to be run on Saturday night was postponed due to a heavy rainstorm which started early in the day. The rain continued throughout the evening and the jet dryers never got on the track. NASCAR officials called an end to the evening at around 9p.m.
The event has been rescheduled for [...]

Color me not surprised.
The above words are those of Bobby Ginn as he enters the multi-million dollar lottery to secure the services of Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Lewis Hamilton set himself for a pole position challenge by topping the timesheets in the final free practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix.
The 22-year-old McLaren Mercedes-Benz driver rose to the top of the standings during the hour-long session and clocked the fastest lap time in one minute and 21.233 seconds as the teams completed [...]

Anyone with a passing interest (pun not intended) in the Busch Series have taken notice of Australia’s Marcos Ambrose, a/k/a/ The Tasmanian Devil. (the Busch guys hung the moniker Kangaroo Meat on him)
Plans are for Ambrose to make his Cup debut at the two road course events, Sonoma in June and Watkins Glen in August. [...]

Because I was caught in some unexpected business I missed the qual results for Saturday’s Cup race. Naturally being one of the multitudes that avoid NASCAR’s “crap-shoot” navigation system I checked the results at FoxSports.
Fox has a feature called a qualifying/race “blog” where fans can interact during the events. As sure as “the rain in [...]

The Singaporean Government announced today is the day.
Singapore will announce its decision on hosting a Formula One race today. Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone had met with Singapore tycoon Ong Beng Seng, who controls resorts developer Hotel Properties Ltd. to discuss the possibility of holding a street race to be held at night in the [...]

Don’t take your love away from me
Don’t you leave my heart in misery
If you go then I’ll be blue
‘Cause breaking up his hard to do
Remember when you held me tight
And you kissed me and it felt so right
Think of all that we’ve been through
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
They say that breaking up is hard [...]

I wonder if the phrase “there’s strength in numbers” applies to those that deal with NASCAR rumors on a retail basis?
If so big doin’s are in store Thursday morning at the shops of DEI.
Jerry Bonkowski, of Yahoo Sports, is touting a “highly placed source within DEI” and additional sources “familiar with the situation” that Junior [...]

Here’s a few notes that caught my eye in the last few hours:
Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage has taken a cue from Talladega President Grant Lynch and pulled the list of names that were arrested for playing “bottle toss” so they will be unable to purchase tickets to Texas events in the future.
In addition, [...]

F1’s Bernie Ecclestone isn’t the most congenial male figure on the planet, the fact is he’s more curmudgeon than teddy bear.
All things considered, like his new Speedcar Series and his territorial and highly dictatorial lording over everything that is F1, I’m shocked he’s Ok’d the entertainment package on offer for the Spanish Grand Prix.
On Sunday [...]