Full Throttle

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.

UPDATED: As you can see the mysteriously and incredibly shrinking text has been eradicated. The problem was contained in the coding for the Technorati links at the bottom of each post.
I may stay with this theme although it has a problem with individual post pages slipping the sidebar to the bottom. (and all posts in [...]

Michael Yaki is a lawyer of Japanese-American descent. More specifically a lawyer with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He’s also a NASCAR fan.
In today’s Star Telegram he writes an editorial, The race cars and the racism, that centers on Toyota’s entry to NASCAR’s premier series.

In it he describes some of the hateful screeds that [...]

The humble, and Half-Vast Staff

A couple months back I noted ESPN had started publishing blogs by several of their staff writers.
In short, what started life as blogs, morphed into posts consisting of short excerpts of each post followed by “read the rest.” The “rest” is only available by providing ESPN cash money flow by a mandatory magazine subscription.
Added to [...]

Bill Church is the Executive Editor (and blogger) of the Statesman Journal out of Salem Oregon.
He sends his praise to FoxSports for “continuing to provide top-level coverage of NASCAR Nextel Cup,” although he has a problem. He believes Fox should have stuck a sock in Darrell Waltrip’s yap during Sunday’s broadcast.
Let it be said he’s [...]

A couple notes on blogs that have popped up in the last few days.
The first, VroomChatter, made it’s appearance in my WP dashboard (because he linked to FT’s humble abode) a few days ago. “VroomDude” has been around since… well since this month, but first my impression is he will be interesting to read during [...]

Forgive the snark, but it’s well deserved.
I have kept a watchful eye on ESPN’s “electronic birdcage liners” (Thanks Luke) since noticing they fly in the face of any true definition of what a blog actually is.
Adding to their disgrace is the fact they require you to shell out cash for a magazine subscription to read [...]

Interesting question isn’t it? Ask ten people the question and your likely to get nearly as many answers.
The most common one is an online journal/blog that doesn’t allow comments (although I don’t agree) but there are many other reasons a valid argument can be presented for.
Generally speaking a weblog is a website that displays in [...]

You know you love us. What’s not to love about one of the most diverse racing blogs around? (detractors & trolls don’t answer that!)
It’s time to spread the love around. The 2007 Bloggies are here. For the first time in its seven year history a Best Sports Blog category has been added. Unlike some award [...]

Oh… a Happy New Year. Well I guess it is, or will be.
But after three days of battle with my host over a planned server switch that created a nightmare, and just beating the deadline by about 4 hours before the New Year, I guess it is.
Now excuse me while I go and hide till [...]

OK… fess up.
Who else has suffered through life with a birthday a week before Christmas?
It really sucks when Aunt Edna combines the two “special days” into one. The topper is she, along with others, miss both days. Your only gift is given 3 days after your birthday and 4 days before Christmas.
Happy In-Between Day! And [...]

Who Knew?
Judging by the comments left so far not many in the racing blogosphere know that NASCAR’s Team Red Bull maintains a blog. Not that it’s devoid of participants, the commenters just aren’t among the usual suspects.
Stock Car Ticker is the place and The Bull Spotter and Matador are contributers. As noted before Red Bull’s [...]

By some incredible stroke of luck Full Throttle has made the finalist list for the 2006 Weblog Awards in the Sports Blog Category.
Other finalists include BlogCritics Sports, Kissing Suzy Kolber, Deadspin, Ben Mahler, the mighty mjd, True Hoop, Blue Grey Sky, MisterIrrelevant and Baseball Musings.
Voting begins Thursday, as the only racing blog among the finalists [...]

Horizontal waves driving you nuts?
Contrast out of whack? Or maybe just the lack of a picture has got you stymied.
Never fear, don’t adjust your set. The Half-Vast Staff of Full Throttle is in the process of switching out computers… and…. more importantly….
YouWho… Ya-Haaa and ISPs and the new one is one of dem dar DSL [...]

Sorry about the superfluous post and despite my use of a $1,000 dollar word that is defined as something different than useful it is.
Just trying to check my super-duper efforts to block another one of those evil vile sploggers that love to steal copyrighted material.

Bet you thought the election season was over with. Think again bucko.
Rev up your voting mouse and head over to the 2006 Canadian Best Blogs Awards. Once there take a gander at the Best New Blog, Best Sports Blog and Best Blog Post categories.

There you will find the most worthy candidate to be NASCAR Ranting [...]

The backend of Full Throttle has been updated to the latest version of WordPress. If you happen to catch something that has broken or become unavailable drop a note in the comment box or shoot me an Email.
Hey… what can I say. We’re auto racing “experts” here, not software gurus!

All NASCAR fans are well aware of who Dale Jarrett is, and many that scratch below the surface of the sport realize Dale’s son Jason has also been a part of the NASCAR scene.
Currently he acts as spotter for his father’s RYR #88 team and has had 40 Busch Series and 2 NEXTEL Cup starts. [...]

Many kids dream of becoming a “Carny” or taking a flight of fancy to Sarasota and hook-up with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. I did, but never made it. Maybe when Social Security kicks in and I become the world’s only clown that uses a walker, a hearing aid and wears Depends!

Anyway I [...]