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If your asking how good my Dutch is, don’t, my language skills suck.
However via the wonders of the internet it’s possible to translate this Dutch language site.
And what comes into view isn’t a very pretty picture concerning A1GP’s once delayed 2008-09 opener at Zandvoort.
Bad news for the Dutch autosportfans, A1GP of Zandvoort seems come in [...]

AC Milan ace Robert Doornbos returned to his pre-season testing form to grab pole position for round two of the Superleague Formula championship at the Nurburgring today.

Far be it from me to pre-judge any legal proceeding, even one that hasn’t reached a court as yet, but this story stinks to High Heaven.
So, in the best traditions of a politicians “Flip-Flop” I’ll quickly reverse myself and say - BULLSHIT!
The issue stems from events that started in 2001 - (and it’s just coming [...]

Hey, don’t mind me, I’m just sayin’ is all.
If someone wants to go from the High-Highfalutin’ League to ah…. um, something further down the mechanical food chain who am I to argue, I don’t write the checks. (And Andrea Moda didn’t either so I’m in *good* company.)
Side note to Peter: Love the analogy don’t ya?

The 2005 series champion Ted Musgrave and Jim Harris, owner of the #59 Team ASE/HT Motorsports Toyota Tundra, mutually agreed to immediately part company, the team announced Saturday.

NASCAR’s Amended Drug Policy. (Sub-titled, Huh, is that all there is?)
Ok, I’ve been waiting for this policy to hit the streets and I have to say, as one who experienced the U.S. Navy’s system for 20 years, is this it?
The single change is testing of all drivers and crew members will be conducted before 2009 [...]

Never saw this one coming?
Wait, save that Cod for lunch, I saw it coming.
Robby Gordon Motorsports and Gillett Evernham Motorsports have announced that they have agreed to terms for resolution of the issues growing out of proposed plan to merge the two Sprint Cup teams.
Disagreements over the merger led to the recent filing of a [...]

Police are searching for the thieves who broke into Roush Yates Engines in Mooresville on Monday night and stole three NASCAR racing engines.
The 358 cubic inch Ford engines are worth $50,000 each and weigh more than 500 pounds.
Workers at the shop told police the engines were kept on rollers.
Police say the thieves busted a hole [...]

FIA president Max Mosley favours the introduction of a common engine across the board for Formula One race cars.

I really need to start a “Nitwit of the Day” category but I’m afraid if I chronicled them all I’d have no time for anything else.
Anywho, today’s entry comes via a columnist who shall remain link-less, because he’s as yet to respond to an email I sent. (Oh what a shock, an ink-stained wretch not [...]

Be advised the headline is pure speculation, it’s what was called during my time in the U.S. Navy a SWAG, a Surface Warfare Wild-Assed Guess.
Regardless of his destination Autosport is reporting Steve Hallam, F1 McLaren’s head of race operations, is to leave the team at the end of this year to move to NASCAR.
Hallam is [...]

J.R. Fitzpatrick is about to take the biggest step in his racing career by making the move from his native Canada to the United States’ and testing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

Follow the bouncing ball and count along with me:
1. Sébastien Vettel of STR and latest and youngest F1 Winner.
2. Sébastien Bourdais also of STR and three time Champ Car champion.
3. Sébastien Buemi finished second in GP2 for Arden International.
What, you say he’s on the sidelines of F1 (read companion events) currently competing in the GP2 [...]

Press Releases, whether you’re a blogger, an ink-stained wretch, or John & Jane Q Public they effect all our lives in one fashion or another.
As a recipient of many releases over the years it’s been well established in my mind there’s a pattern.
A method to the PR wonks madness if you will, not unlike that [...]

As seen in the preceding post (see update) Yahoo Sports Jerry Bonkowski isn’t one to turn down free tickets to Flights of Fancy.
Such was the case last Friday. Apparently prompted by Ron Hornaday Jr’s recent revelation he took “performance enhancing” drugs for a time in 2004-2006 Bonkowski again boarded “Fancy Air.” (flight 51 in honor [...]

Greg Biffle grabbed the lead in his DISH Network Ford from Jimmie Johnson during a restart with 12 laps remaining to claim his first win of the season at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The rest of the story is depicted left, a real honest-to-goodness NASCAR swaybar. Of course that one has all its bolts attached in [...]

Ron Hornaday Jr. put aside all the distractions and had another dominating performance at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to score his 38th career victory in the Truck Series.

Mother Nature must luv Kyle Busch as yet another rainy day forced Sunday’s Cup event to start via points and places Busch on the pole.
For the second consecutive race, the third in the last six and the seventh this year, rain washed out qualifying which begs the question:
With ten events left who wins more Busch [...]

James Walker will make his Superleague Formula debut on-loan to Scottish club Rangers for the upcoming round at the Nurburgring.
Walker previously shook down the #21 “Reds” machine at Donington Park for Liverpool FC Racing but will now suit up for the “Gers” for the second round of the championship on September 20-21.
Glasgow-born and US-based regular [...]

UPS announced Friday morning what had long been known that it will sponsor Roush-Fenway Racing’s David Ragan next season.
In other news, the moon is not made of green cheese and Hanna Montana is still an over-exposed (in more ways than one) ditz.
There have been several mentions by NASCAR about the new drug policy coming down [...]