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Carl Edwards has run away from the Busch Series field faster than a hack shyster/judge can sue a Korean dry cleaners for $65 million dollars.
That is to say competition has been of no practical importance, irrelevant, just as it was last year as Kevin Harvick decimated the series points standings.
That’s about to change if only [...]

Stop the presses! Copy Boy!
Copyyyyyyyy Booooooy! Rewrite that headline, make it read Mrs. Hospenthal spotted jogging in the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!
(There’s no word whether she was jogging while clutching a Hostess Twinkie.)<div style=”clear:both;”
Remember when May 1st automatically conjured up thoughts of the Indy 500? Glasses of milk and Andy Granatelli weeping in [...]

Funny stuff:
Among several allegations in a revised complaint filed by Kentucky Speedway, which was part of an anti-trust suit filed in July 2005, was that a $360 million cash offer the speedway made for NHIS was rebuffed by Bahre “because of the pressure exerted by ISC and NASCAR to exclude Kentucky Speedway from the market.”<div [...]

After the fourth of sixteen scheduled CORN events it’s readily apparent Dale Earnhardt Jr. is camping unhappy.
“It’s going to take some time to figure it out, but right now it’s about the most frustrating thing I’ve had to deal with in this sport, and I’ve had to deal with some pretty frustrating things,” Earnhardt said [...]

Mister Smith Jeff Burton, Mr. Casey Mears and Mr. David Stremme go to Washington.
The details in this story are sparse but what is evident is messer’s Burton, Mears and Stremme took a detour from their normal duties last week and lobbied Washington D.C.’s power brokers for a tax law change to help racetracks.
Who’d a thunk [...]

1. If you lined every corporate logo from a typical NASCAR race up end-to-end, the resulting chain would stretch from the Earth to the moon and almost halfway back.
2. Every NASCAR driver makes use of all the products he endorses. So keep sending Jeff Gordon letters asking him if he uses Depends. (A moment [...]

Early Years
Hermann Tilke founded Tilke Engineering in 1984, combining skills in architecture, engineering and the undeviating obedience of a lapdog to provide complete solutions for motor racing and waste disposal projects.
Tilke is most famous for his work re-designing classic tracks, such as the A1-Ring in Austria and the Hockenheimring in Germany, creating blander and more [...]

Rain delayed the start by 17 hours, 14 cautions delayed the event and Jimmie Johnson delayed teammate Jeff Gordon’s quest for another beer can shower and 78th Cup win.
OH My!
Not the Jeffy didn’t try, he spent all but three laps in the top ten, led the most laps (114) but still came up 3 spots [...]

In a Commonwealth that advertises itself as “for lovers,” Virginia proved to be anything but as rains washed away Saturday evenings Cup event and NASCAR’s fourth of sixteen episodes of “CORN, Here Today, Born of Yesterday.”
(Not really if they really wanted to spin the chronometer back to yesterday they would stop about here [just [...]

Wonder how many NASCAR team “headhunters” will be at Schererville, Indiana’s Illiana Speedway tonight?
With seven years racing experience that includes six national titles in series from quarter midgets to 600-CC mini sprints and more than 300 career race victories and 18 different track records Austin Woodham may deserve a look.
Keep in mind any look would [...]

For better or worse (mostly worst) race tracks the world over featured Armco barriers to separate race cars from grandstands, trees and many other things that would cause harm to man, women, children and 8, 10 and 12 cylinder mechanical beasts.
With few exceptions Armco barriers have been relegated to the dustbin of history because of [...]

Clint Bowyer pulled away over the final laps Friday night to win the NASCAR Busch Series Circuit City 250 at the RIR. It was the fifth Busch victory of Bowyer’s career and his second this season.
Bowyer finished 1.486 seconds ahead of Matt Kenseth.
Kenseth had a two-second lead in the race’s final stages and seemed headed [...]

It’s a story as old as the hills. A guy/gal starts at the bottom, they work their way to the top and promptly become the target for those that desire to see them slide back down the same hill they scaled on the way up.
The Junior Earnhardt must be looking down that hill about now.
After [...]

For the third time this month another one has bitten the dust over at the shops of Michael Waltrip Racing. Matt Borland, formerly a crew chief at Penske Racing South, can add “formerly a crew chief at MWR” to his resume.
The question I have is why? What made Waltrip think shifting Borland from a long [...]

Subtitled: A Contrarian’s Point of View.
The print/online media and the racing blogosphere has been abuzz with yards of Fish Wrap column space and a Gazillion-Trillion megabits of bandwidth covering the hooligan behavior on display at Talladega.
I’m not here to condemn the behavior- that’s been done - I’m on scene to embrace it. I’m advocating taking [...]

Former motor racing champion Michael Schumacher sailed as 18th man Wednesday on Emirates team New Zealand

Talladega Superspeedway has permanently banned 14 fans from buying tickets at the speedway following their arrests Sunday for throwing objects on the track after Jeff Gordon’s victory in the Aaron’s 499.
Forgive me for being slightly dense, but what does this accomplish?<div style=”clear:both;”
Certainly these 14 drunken dunderheads have enough marginally operational brain cells to figure out [...]

Much has been written about TV ratings that have shown a slight downslide and some NASCAR venues having empty seats.
I’m hear tellin’ you and NASCAR it’s time to lose a few more fans. Specifically the fans that have made it a point to show their collective asses the last two weeks by chuckin’ beer bottles [...]

Still attempting to recover from a hard drive crash.
I should be back to a top ten qualifying speed within the next 12 hours.
UPDATE: Gee how did this happen?
Actually I know how it happened, but puzzled as to why. I backed out the service that made it occur of over six months ago.