Full Throttle

Just a few short notes on a Friday Eve. Short because I have no inclination to write anything longer.

Going out last, Jeff Gordon captured the pole for Sunday’s 3M Performance 400 at the MIS. Enjoy it while you can Jeffy, MIS is Ford Country and has been for a while. Biffle is on his right shoulder but my cash is on Kenseth Sunday.

Being rideless hasn’t prevented Sterling Marlin from getting hit with a fine. Sterling’s alleged to have dumped “dirt to pollute a creek while clearing land on his property.” The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation stepped in and fined him Ten G’s. I’m guessing the fine is based on the “Eleventh Commandment: Section 11-4-A (actions detrimental to God’s Green Earth)” Or maybe not.

The forgetting the past quote of the day: “He drives like he doesn’t know what he’s doing.” - Kevin Harvick. Yeah, I bet Scott Pruett is thinking the same thing about Harvick. The key word is “thinking,” Pruett hasn’t spent the last week whining about getting punted out of contention by Harvick at Watkins Glen.

“Imitation is the shearest form of flattery,” someone once said. Brian France must be sporting a smile about now.

207.297 miles per hour in a Ford Fusion? Hmmm… an unrestricted test at Talladega or Daytona? Not hardly it’s the new world land speed record by the world’s first and only production vehicle-based fuel cell race car. And it’s built by Roush.

Brain France (a/k/a PCNA), don’t be distracted by that ethanol thing going on in the IRL. This may be the real Car of Tomorrow in both NASCAR and on the street as well.

More later as news breaks…