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A source at New Hampshire Motor Speedway told the Herald yesterday that Moss’ NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team, Randy Moss Motorsports, will make its debut on July 19 at Kentucky Speedway. Moss’ truck will be No. 81, the jersey number he wears for the Patriots.

Justin Allgaier, in his father Mike Allgaier’s #16 Zoller & Bergfield Farming-AG Tech Chevrolet, recovered from a mid-race spin, raced his way back into the lead, survived two late-race restarts, and then drove away from Frank Kimmel and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. to win the inaugural Cayuga ARCA RE/MAX 250 Sunday afternoon at Cayuga Motor Speedway.
“This [...]

Racing at Barrie Speedway is about speed, patience, luck and survival. The .333-mile track is prototypical short track racing. Scott Steckly had all of those characteristics in his arsenal in winning the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series A&W 300 Saturday night.
The game was on with 50 laps to go in the event. Steckly, racing out of [...]

Penske Racing driver Kurt Busch took advantage of the single thing New Hampshire Motor Speedway owner Burton Smith can’t control, the weather.
In a race that was shaping up as a duel between Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a few others turned all topsy-turvey when first a late [...]

For the second time in as many weeks, Surrey, BC driver Pete Harding won an ARCA West Super Late Model racing event at Sunvalley Speedway in Vernon, BC.
Pete Harding scores second Sunvalley Speedway win in 2 weeks
Driving the #39 LP Body Shop Chevrolet Impala SS, the well-respected Harding followed his ARCA West Circle K Series [...]

According to reports NASCAR is soliciting input from team crew chiefs with an eye towards a change in Sprint Cup testing for the 2009 season.
“Holy rules written on an Etch-a-Sketch Batman, whatever makes NASCAR think a change is needed?”
“Well Robin, based on the Brainwave Bat-analyzer John Darby, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup director, is looking for a [...]

Event organizer Rotterdam Racing proudly present Moscow City Racing 2008. On Sunday 13 July 2008, roaring Formula 1 cars will visit the city center of Moscow for a fantastic Formula One spectacle. Famous Formula 1 drivers will start off at the paddock located on the Red Square and drive past the Kremlin and the Moscow [...]

“Shut it Down, Shut it Down!” - the sage advice of Québec native Patrick Carpentier’s Crew/Car Chief after his first lap at NHMS landed the #10 GEM Dodge on the pole position.
“It’s amazing,” said Carpentier, “The car was great. We made a couple of changes from this morning and the car just rotated beautifully through [...]

Two rising stars in NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program, Paulie Harraka and Kristin Bumbera, split Saturday’s twin 75-lap NASCAR late-model features at Roseville’s (CA) All American Speedway.
Harraka, 18, also took home the overall AT&T Rumble at Roseville championship for Antelope’s Bill McAnally Racing.
Bumbera’s victory was the first by a female driver in the diversity program [...]

Braun Racing lost one of the most beloved members of its team on June 25. Linda Braun, lovingly known as “Mama B,” mother of NASCAR Nationwide Series owner, Todd Braun, passed away suddenly of natural causes in her hometown of Winamac, Ind.
As a tribute to “Mama B,” both Braun Racing entries, the No. 38 [...]

(Below is NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France’s keynote speech presented Thursday, June 26 at the annual Associated Press Sports Editor (APSE) National Convention, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis, Minn.)
Good afternoon, everyone.
First, thank you for this invitation to be with you today. I was very honored to get the invite from outgoing APSE [...]

There’s a certain amount of buttkicking that goes on each week of the NASCAR season.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is noted for it’s no-holds-barred type of racing that many fans equate to a buttkicking being performing by their favorite team or driver.
Of late you could classify The Phenom, Joey Logano, as laying a buttkicking on [...]

By way of Doug Demmons we learn Montgomery Motor Speedway may be back in action this year after the speed plants purchase by NCTS driver Rick Crawford.
Contingent on the city of Montgomery, Alabama granting a new license to operate the track Crawford hopes to have the 1/2 mile paved oval in operation this fall and [...]

As if a 36-race NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule isn’t grueling enough, Tony Stewart spent his spare time doing even more racing Tuesday night with a couple of other Cup regulars.
The two-time Cup champion spent the night with series leader Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth competing in a super late-model race at Madison International Speedway, [...]

Daytona 500 Experience, “The Official Attraction of NASCAR” has yet another way for race fans to get immersed in the sport - literally. Photos by Daytona Int’l Speedway
The Sim Factory LLC, in association with the ARCA RE/MAX Series, Daytona International Speedway and Daytona 500 Experience has added a new ARCA Driver Development Program simulator [...]

Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon was among a group of drivers testing today at Kentucky Speedway.
The test session was Gordon’s first ever at the 1.5-mile track in Sparta. Elliott Sadler and Regan Smith also tested at the track today.
Crew Chief Steve Letarte described the Sonoma, Calif., experience in which the No. 24 [...]

Here’s a few questions for the trivia masters that I failed to post prior to the weekends event in Sonoma.
1. Why was the primary sponsor of the Marcos Ambrose/Woods Bros #21 Fusion Motorcraft and not the usual Little Debbie Cakes?
2. Who was the first Australian driver to race a Ford at Infineon?
3. What Australian driver [...]

As Kyle Busch racked up 4 Cup wins the buzz was he would bulldoze his way through the season and stand an excellent chance at his first championship.
Over the last few weeks, during which his points lead was shaved a bit, the talk was all about Busch stretching himself too thin running so many events [...]

All it took to end Carl Edwards’ year-long NASCAR Nationwide Series winless streak was to change crew chiefs.
The defending series champion had gone 36 races without a victory, and team owner Jack Roush decided that was enough. So Roush Fenway Racing swapped crew chiefs earlier this week, with Drew Blickensderfer taking over for Pierre Kuettel [...]

A quick note, posts may be a little on the light side for the next few days as I struggle with a new theme and design for Full Throttle.
As the image shows it’s completely different in design and how various sections will be called up and viewed.
The header image still needs a lot of work, [...]