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Day 2 of Champ Week featured Jimmie Johnson & Co. conducting photo shoots at various NYC landmarks, Honest, the landmarks are there. If you can see past the Sprint Cup trophy that seems to be the “star” of each image.

Speedcar Series’ second season begins this weekend at the Dubai Autodrome with 14 cars on the grid. The Speedcars will be run by 7 teams from six countries across Europe, the Middle East and United States.

Can you drive really fast around tight corners? Four times each lap? Do you burst a cranial blood vessel, lose your temper and burst into tears when other drivers cut-down on you? If you answered yes to any, or all of the above, NASCAR might want to hear from you.

Champions Dinner at the Chef’s Table at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on Monday night. The event kicked off Champions Week, which concludes Friday with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony.

“Spend money to get the money,” sounds like a recurring theme carried on from the proceeding post doesn’t it. In a way it is, here’s the entire quote that excerpt is taken from.

Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage unveiled a $2 million capital improvement project for the auto racing facility today that will transform the upper half of the backstretch area into a lavish motorcoach area known as Burnout Alley.

I thought the holiday season was a time of family, friends and good cheer. It’s hard to make that case if you spend any amount of time reading some of the headlines floating above NASCAR Nation.

Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will be the centerpiece of this week’s annual Champions Week celebration in New York City – a busy and joyful five days that marks the traditional end of each season.

Former Asian Karting Queen Michele Bumgarner scored another breakthrough achievement for Philippine Motorsports that puts her just steps away from her dream of making it in the international formula racing scene.

The motorsports industry is not immune to the current economic downturn. Nearly all race teams in the industry have made some level of cutbacks. It is estimated that upwards of 700 jobs have been lost in recent weeks and its possible the lay-offs will continue into 2009.

Former world champion Fernando Alonso is sure he will not retire until he adds a third title to the two won while competing for Mclaren.

He has been voted the most overrated driver in V8 Supercars and only has one race win to his name, but James Courtney will next year become one of the sport’s richest drivers after signing a mind-boggling $1 million-a-year deal.

Consider this Full Throttle’s ThanksGiving gift to all you motorheads. Feel free to add links to what you mistakenly think is a better TV spot in the comment section.

It was announced in July 2008 that Donington Park has been awarded the contract to host the British Grand Prix for 10 years from 2010. It will be the first time the BGP will be held away from Silverstone 21 years.

HMS Holdings which operates the the Hendrick Motor Engine shop is suing DEI over termination fee stemming from a contract to supply Hendrick engines to Ginn Racing.

Red Bull chief Dietrich Mateschitz has reassumed total ownership of Toro Rosso after buying back a 50% share in the Formula One outfit from team boss Gerhard Berger.

Say what you will, but this off-season is unlike most others. Normally the three days proceeding Turkey Day are a race fans No MansLand and devoid of much news- not this year - it’s all business.

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and Team Mopar team owner/driver Kasey Kahne will return to his roots on Thursday for the 68th annual “Turkey Night Grand Prix” at Toyota Speedway/Irwindale.

Today’s NASCAR quote of the day comes from Marcos Ambrose who jetted straight home from Homestead to attend the V8 Supercar Series event at Symmons Plains Tasmania.

EM Motorsports has announced that it has teamed up with NASCAR veteran James Hylton for the 2009 running of the Daytona 500.