Full Throttle

Did I ever tell you I hate the term cookie cutter? If not, or you have forgotten, let me restate it. There is no such thing. There may be race tracks that are of the same length, maybe even the same degree banking. But they each have there own “personality” when considering car set-up due to track surface or turn radius. In light of that “cookie cutter” is hereby designated as this weeks first entry and is eligable to take a dip in the NASCAR Cesspool.

A rookie in both the Cesspool Hall of Shame and the NEXTEL Cup Series is next up. Ganassi’s Reed Sorenson faces a possible penalty for intentionally creating a caution during Saturday’s running of the O’Reilly 300 at TMS. NASCAR threw the caution for a piece of roll bar padding from Sorenson’s car that was on the track and sent Sorenson to the end of the longest line at the time, a penalty of about five positions. Tsk, tsk, tsk… it’s not nice to fool “Father NASCAR.” If the tale of the tape shows a hand attached to that padding the NASCAR “tax man” will paying a visit to the rookie’s bank acount.

Now that it’s official, and the “Great Intrepid Experiment” is history, can all the Dodge Teams get along now? Will they actually get back to the business of putting the Charger brand name in winners circle? Obviously Evernham has it figured out. And it’s just as obvious Penske doesn’t and they have some catching up to do now they’re forced back into the Charger. Which brings me to Ryan Newman, currently 18^th in points, 352 behind leader Jimmie Johnson. Technically within the 400 point cutoff for the Chase, but something more than “being Intrepid” is going on with the #12. Going back to last year there seems to be something missing. If the team is just a bit off during a race they seem to lack the ability to make the right adjustments at the right time to get back to the top ten. In that light, the Half-Vast staff of Full Throttle joins Dodge in making an “official announcement.” Newman’s season is over, Ka-put, history just as the Intrepid Experiment.

Verbal exchange’s makes it in this week along with the exclaimation: What the hell was that, uttered in the aftermath of the lap-83 altercation involving former teammates Kurt Busch and Greg Biffle. The two combatants after race verbal exchange’s are expected. What wasn’t expected occured between Biffle