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Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, the fictional character in the 1980s action/adventure TV series The A-Team, was famous for using the tagline; “I love it when a plan comes together.”

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, and I believe it is, Kevin Harvick my heartfelt thanks goes out to you for taking my idea and running with it.

Kevin Harvick won Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout, taking the lead from Jamie McMurray just before a three-car accident erupted behind him to end the race on the final lap of a green-white-checkered finish.

Four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon has ridden the surge of NASCAR’s popularity to a 37th-place ranking in this year’s Celebrity 100 as selected by Forbes magazine, which lists Gordon’s annual income, including endorsements, at $32 million, a figure Gordon says is overblown.

From the Marbles author Jay Busby is joined by none other than Kevin Harvick, who stopped by to chat about how much he dislikes New York, what he’d like to do with the NASCAR banquet, and what he thinks of the economy’s effects on his own team.

 

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Todd Bodine won the battle but Johnny Benson won the war in the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway - as Ron Hornaday Jr. came up agonisingly just short of title glory.

Kevin Harvick held off hard-charging Kyle Busch to win Friday night’s Lucas Oil 150 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Phoenix International Raceway. (PodCast)

 

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Kyle Busch’s first victory of 2008 came in April at Texas, the question now is will Saturday’s dominating performance at the same track be his last, or will he go on to break Sam Ard’s 25 year old record of ten wins?

What has been rumored for just short of a month has been made official, Camping World has assumed the title sponsorship of the truck series.

As related earlier a shouting match, at the least, occurred between Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick in the LMS garage. Funny stuff, truth be told, but now a mini-controversy has erupted in the aftermath.
Tania Ganguli is a beat reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and along with co-blogger Matt Humphrey write the NASCAR Nuts & Bolts [...]

As you read this let the melody of Love is a Battlefield run through your head.
The AP’s Jenna Fryer reports, via unnamed witnesses, a WWE type match, albeit a verbal one, broke out in the LMS NNS garage between Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick.
According to Fryer’s sources Edwards and Harvick were in a heated argument [...]

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — NASCAR officials confirmed Friday that Camping World is negotiating to become the new title sponsor of the truck series next season, replacing Craftsman Tools.

Greg Biffle grabbed the lead in his DISH Network Ford from Jimmie Johnson during a restart with 12 laps remaining to claim his first win of the season at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The rest of the story is depicted left, a real honest-to-goodness NASCAR swaybar. Of course that one has all its bolts attached in [...]

There’s one way to beat Kyle Busch.
The recipe includes carrying over a hot streak from last week, toss in a fortuitous pit stop that contenders Jeff Burton and Jimmie Johnson didn’t utilize, and finally, beat Busch into submission with a little dash of Tasmanian Devil. (with a side of Vegemite!)
The end result is Marcos Ambrose’s [...]

Mostly holding an umbrella is the short story, the longer story follows.
Kevin Harvick decided to stay in Maine an extra day and his decision paid off as he raced to victory in the rain-delayed TD Banknorth 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway.
Harvick built a comfortable lead before turning back a late challenge by Glen Luce.
Harvick, who’s [...]

Before I get into today’s 24 hours of Pocono Pocono 500 I have to ask, did anyone take advantage of TNT’s Race Buddy feature offered via NASCAR’s website?
If not, and for the record, Race Buddy worked pretty good. And at the price, free, beat NASCAR’s sock-it-to-the-fools pay version all to hell. (hello fools, how ya [...]

Jeff Boyer and his #05 Boyer-Rimi Racing Chevrolet has the “pleasure” of starting shotgun on the field at The Rock, no not that Rock, this one when the Carolina 500 rolls off Sunday afternoon.
That’s not just shotgun on any field of stock cars, but shotgun on a field of FIFTY. And at that he’s [...]

With all the NASCAR teams branching out with tie-ups to various business partnerships it’s to be expected Kevin and Delana Harvick wouldn’t be ones left behind the curve.
What is surprising is the direction they are taking, Happy is getting, dare I say it… happy, with drag racing the AA Fueler type. (Bruton see what you’ve [...]