Full Throttle

There’s no other way to put it, Tony Stewart is putting on another display of NASCAR’s elite at a short dirt track this evening, and it has to be classified as a Wallace family gathering.
No less than five will be in attendance at Macon Speedway (co-owned by Stewart, Kenny Wallace and Bob Sargent) for the [...]

Doug Demmons reporter for the Birmingham News and author of The Blog of Tomorrow is reporting Germain Racing will test the unemployed and former Champ Car driver Paul Tracy at Chicagoland Speedway.
Tracy, who made his NASCAR debut in NASCAR’s #2 series in 2006, will return to the oval-track for a one-day test at Chicagoland Speedway. [...]

The extent of NASCAR’s influence never ceases to amaze me.
The latest wonderment comes via Australia and the brand new, never seen before, never raced before NASCUP racing car.
Behold - NASCUP racing cars.
Following in the tradition of Aussie Racing Cars (ARC) which is now recognized as Australia’s most successful motor racing category comes a new class [...]

Jimmy Spencer - the consummate northeast modifed driver, turned NASCAR driver and sometime on track pugilist, turned to the Speed Channel and a job as analyst to continue his connection to the sport he loves.
Away from the track, it’s a far different story. Where he once punched out the competition, with bumper or [...]

Lloyd Moore, NASCAR’s oldest living driver, died Sunday. He was 95.
Moore died in his modest, beige-and-brick home, the same place he was born on June 8, 1912. He was a farmer, mechanic, bus driver, and for 17 years he ran the school bus garage for the Frewsburg Central Schools.
Moore raced stock cars through the sand [...]

A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has revealed the first image of its brand new ‘Powered by Ferrari’ car for use in season four (2008/09).
The CAD drawing was released ahead of the car’s inaugural shakedown test in Southern England.
A1GP’s own TV commentator and Formula One legend, John Watson, will have the honour of driving the car [...]

With all that’s going on within the F1 Circus over the last few weeks is this really how Reuters wants to headline a story?
“Fisichella penalised for red light infringement.”
It’s factual, that I’ll give them.
But you wonder if the Reuters staffer is completely oblivious to Max “The Littlest Perv” Mosley’s sexual escapades or he/she might [...]

It’s not often I remark on anything related to the World Rally championship. Not that an interest isn’t held it’s just a matter of time and priorities, in point of fact I tend to believe those that ply their trade in the WRC are some of the most accomplished drivers on the planet.
Regardless of my [...]

Of all the noise heard within NASCAR Nation the past few days (the loudest being the Junior/Busch non-sense) one couldn’t help noticing the many stories concerning Chrissy Wallace’s recent exploits. Not that is isn’t deserved, she has the talent and more importantly, the pedigree of the Wallace family to aid her drive to the [...]

The list is getting longer for the future former head of the FIA. The Littlest Perv has lost another round in the legal system of the EU.
A judge in Paris said Tuesday it was not within his jurisdiction to ban an Internet video of The Littlest Perv with prostitutes, but he ordered the French recall [...]

New Zealand V8 racecar driver Dale Lambert has been banned for two years after returning a positive drugs test for cannabis.
The Auckland driver tested positive at the Manfeild round of the national series in February.
The New Zealand Herald newspaper today reported that Drug Free Sport New Zealand officials arrived at the circuit for the first [...]

You read that correctly, Morgan Shepherd won the Aarons 312 at Talladega Superspeedway.
Sure he finished 12 places behind the actual winner Tony Stewart. For a driver that hasn’t seen a GREEN flag in Cup since Louden in 2006 and only a single checkered flag in the NNS in eight attempts prior to Talladega it was [...]

The 2007-08 A1GP championship will be decided at Brands Hatch next month after leaders Team Switzerland failed to clinch the title in Shanghai.
Driver Neel Jani dominated Sunday morning’s Sprint Race from pole position and, with New Zealand’s Jonny Reid failing to finish, Switzerland needed to take another two points from their nearest rivals in the [...]

The good folks at A1 Podium are reporting a new A1GP team will be announced from the Asia-Pacific region Sunday, reportedly at a cost that runs to seven figures.
Also, there will be about three new venues next season with a couple of the current ones being dropped. David Clare said that they basically already know [...]

The last few days the newswires have been full of stories concerning the health of the Australian GP.
Bernie “The Enforcer” Ecclestone is allegedly in Russia in an effort to twist the Aussie’s arm with a threat to move the GP event. News also broke the new circuit near Lisbon - Algarve International Circuit - may [...]

Subtitled: Things found while studiously avoiding the SuperStupid Bowl.
Who says stock cars are “purely American? Not I, at least not anymore and not when you can find “Legends Spirit” in Europe. De REGEL van legenden at Croix en Ternois, Zolder, Colmarburg and Croix Memorial. (Is that Jeffy I spy at the 24 hours of Zolder? [...]

Considering Switzerland’s three official languages are German, French and Italian the question is which one Neel Jani used when asked if he were interested in joining a CCWS team in 2008.
If I were a betting man I’d guess “No Dell’Inferno” (Hell No!) but I could be wrong. He could have used that [in]famous hand & [...]

Everyone from popcorn venders, to drivers & crewman, to various media scribes, to visa holders to NASCAR Nation are aware of NASCAR’s Mythical Rulebook.
To say it contains parts that, shall we say, are ambiguous is being kind. To be more to the point certain sections are unintelligible, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, questionable and finally, vague. If [...]

Even I, older than dirt and twice as gritty, don’t remember the 1941 John Ford directed picture How Green Was My Valley but something about recent racing related news stories brought the title bubbling to the surface.
For those that don’t know, and I had to reacquaint myself, the plot tells the story of a Welsh [...]

A1GP Sepang Qualifying Results:
A1GP Team Switzerland’s Neel Jani put in a sensational performance during qualifying for the A1GP Sepang, Malaysia to take pole position for Sunday’s Sprint and Feature race. The Swiss star will start the Sprint race from P1 for the third consecutive season at Sepang and he will lead the drivers off the [...]