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This sounds to me like an overreaction by the security guard in question. Among other things.
Sometime Friday at Homestead Kasey Kahne was rushing back to his motorhome that was parked in a secure area. Although in his drivers uniform he didn’t have his mandatory security pass on his person and was stopped by a guard
Kahne, [...]

Actually, after clinching his second consecutive NEXTEL Cup Sunday J.J will probably pull in close to $10 million counting contengency cash etc.
On the other hand to Theresa Randall a J.J. title means a tenth that amount. The Las Vegas native will rake in a cool million when he crosses the line in 18th place or [...]

After the wacky 2007 F1 season one can’t be too sure it will ever end, but with the FIA International Court of Appeal rejecting McLaren’s appeal lodged after the then presumed “season-ending” Brazilian Grand Prix it can be safely said Kimi Raikkonen is the 2007 Formula One world champion.
So it ends… I guess, but I [...]

The Formula One World Championship is, and has been the ultimate traveling circus. (with sincerest apolgies to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Baily)
The F1 Circus criss-crosses the world from Europe to parts of Asia, to south of the equator and Australia. Then on to North America and South America all in the span of seven [...]

Sorry Jeffy fans… it had to be done!
And I hope none of the fans were hurt as Dale Jr. hurtled into the stands.
Jeff Gordon, NASCAR, NEXTEL Cup, Sports, Auto Racing, Motorsports, Full Throttle

Junior Johnson, who knows a thing’er two about corn-liquor (including a present-day legal version), once said of those in that era, “Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to [...]

I doubt these two incidents are connected in any meaningful way other than closeness in time and a desire for Honda to show something for the butt loads of money they are wasting.
Besides when you threaten your employer with quiting unless improvement is made don’t you have to have something to back up the threat? [...]

Sure, the improbable could happen at Homestead, but it won’t, and the NEXTEL Cup will have a consecutive year champion, the first since Gordon in ‘97-’98.
NEXTEL Cup, Sports, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, NASCAR, Auto Racing, Motorsports, Full Throttle

The FT Family lost it’s most trustworthy and loyal friend this weekend.
Kiarri was loyal to the point of being a pain in the butt, in a comforting and enjoyable way.
She was always under foot. Always under the dinner table, back pushed up against your feet as you attempted to pound out another blog post or [...]

Sorry to say it’s not mine.
Between to little girls dominating the PC and one very sick Labrador I’m short on keyboard time.
However I did have enough time in front of the screen to note Top Gear’s post that gets my nod for Blog Post of the Day in refering to the ongoin FIA/WMSC witch hunt [...]

With the recent and apparent settlement to the little dust-up over Smith’s planned drag strip at Lowes Motor Speedway comes word the billionaire has plans for yet another drag strip.
Las Vegas your guessing?
Nope, it’s reportedly planned for what many are calling a tarmac version of Deadman Walking, the newly purchased and renamed New Hampshire Motor [...]

While the media and many blogs are all ga-ga over the two driver, one team race to the NEXTEL Cup Championship it took the current points leader’s better half to toss a little water on the heat generated.
But not just any water. Oh no, this was fresh sea water lapping the shores of the Mexican [...]

Unless you’re talking about a field that only contains 10 entrants. Then it kinda sucks.
On the other hand I can take solace in the fact this year’s Weblog Awards also sucked. In more than a few ways.
As a disclaimer, I judged the Best Canadian and Best Australian categories. Not that it matters, it’s just an [...]

It’s a never ending story.
Reports say a group of “independent legal and technical experts had ‘trawled through’ F1 McLaren’s headquarters over the last two days.”
As these things go those “in charge,” the WMSC and FIA ain’t talkin’. And those accused and convicted aren’t either, a McLaren team spokeswoman said,

QUESTION: If using a bit of jet fuel during the Daytona 500 brings down the wrath of God upon Michael Waltrip what happens next Speedweeks when radioactive isotopes are found after the DEI team finishes first thru fourth in the 500.
Hey, don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just asking!
Petty Enterprises moves to Charlotte: The announcement precedes [...]

Well… I might be.
It’s just a feasible as the current Michael Schumacher rumor making the rounds.
Someone (actually Williams

But I repeat myself.
Haas CNC Racing team owner Gene Haas was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of tax fraud in August.
U.S. District Court Judge Christina A. Snyder issued the sentence Monday in accordance with guidelines set in the previously agreed to plea bargain in federal court [...]

Ah… dem was da days!
The only massaging a stock car body received (aero what!?) was when in very close contact with a competitor or when rim riding, ala Richard Petty as he led the way at Darlington collecting the infamous “Stripe” along the way. As The King said at the time, “We drove for the [...]

The following is from some two-bit rag on the south side of Chicago:
To the NASCAR drivers who win their races and then proceed to spin their tires and create all the smoke: Do you not realize that you are putting PCBs into the environment with that practice?
My suggestion to maintain at least a semblance of [...]

Ya gotta Love it when the Professional Pundits (PP’s?) take it on the chin.
All week the vast majority of press were enamored with Jeffy’s drive for five, some all but conceding this years title. Some claimed Jeffy was “confident,” and he wasn’t “sweating” about the “heated points race.”
To be sure some took a more pragmatic [...]