Full Throttle

Australian Marcos Ambrose will have his closest thing to a home event in the Carquest Auto Parts 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway this weekend.

Ambrose will have 30 fans from his homeland at the 1.5-mile speedway this weekend on the second Marcos Ambrose tour of NASCAR Nation. The tour is a sell-out and a second tour is planned for August this year .

“We’ve also got a bunch of Aussie fans over on our second tour and it’s a long way to come, so I’d like to deliver for them.

“I really enjoy giving the Australian fans a close-up look at NASCAR and showing them what it’s all about. It’s such a great sport and the Australian fans love it even more once they get a first-hand look at it.” (Peter, PeterG, are you there to support the Devil Racer? -ed)

Wonder where Austin Dillon purchased the lucky stars he’s living under? (sub-titled “tech-inspec” is my friend) A few short weeks ago Dillion was handed a win after Payton Sellers was DQ’s at Greenville Pickens.

This week the eighteen-year-old Dillon jumped to a sixth place finish in the East/West Camping World showdown at Iowa after Joe Gibbs Racing development driver Marc Davis was DQ’d from his second place finish. Might I suggest a new sponsorship opportunity for the youngster, Lucky Charms might be a nice fit about now.

It’s true, there was an earthquake in Charlotte, presumably that means Eddie Gossage assumes the mantel of NASCAR’s P.T. Barnum and Head Clown Wrangler. He’ll do just fine in the role, but someone else needs to step up and play foil to Eddie’s show with Humpy gone.

Please! I hope this doesn’t shake out to having to tolerate a back-flipping duck. If it does, I’ll puke!

I’ll also make a break for the porcelain receptacle if I hear/see another whine fest over Kasey Kahne not deserving his win last Saturday. I suspect a good portion of those whimpering were also crying in thier beer asking to have their say and vote someone in. Give it a gosh-darn rest!

I’ve been ridin’ this bandwagon for a couple years, and been consistent about it, it’s about time Derrike Cope quit playing the start and park game and put one of his two Hottie cousins in the drivers seat.

SS Green Light Racing is hungry, or getting hungry, or something. One thing’s sure, if they sign Hungarian driver Gyuri Makai to drive one of there truck they could do worse than hitting up Tony Packos for sponsorship. In the famous words of Homer Simpson: “Mmmmmm …. doughnuts Hungarian hot dogs …”

I don’t get the History Channel which leads to my obvious question, what the hell are “Ice Road Truckers?” I do know a thing or two about R.C. racing having been part of the scene for too long (says the wife) and I get the NASCAR connection but something just doesn’t compute with me. Guess you had to be there.

And finally in NASCAR’s news you can lose, is the lose part. Hey you didn’t expect the People’s Commissar of NASCAR Affairs to make any newsworthy comments did you? If you did you need to visit the aforementioned porcelain receptacle ’cause you’re one sick puppy.

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