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NASCAR Camping World Series East point leader Matt Kobyluck will start on the pole for this afternoon’s Mohegan Sun 200 at Lime Rock Park.
Kobyluck, 38, of Uncasville, Conn., will lead the field to green after an afternoon thunderstorm prevented qualifying Friday afternoon. The 32-car field was then set as per the NASCAR rule book.
Earlier in [...]

Just what are Kenny Wallace and Ken Schrader looking for in Kansas tonight, “Toto?”
No, actually they are searching for the same thing they have all summer, a O’Reilly/USMTS Modified Series feature win. this time at Speedway 81.
Emporia, Ks. Native Clint Boywer was to compete but begged off due to other commitments.
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According to reports NASCAR is soliciting input from team crew chiefs with an eye towards a change in Sprint Cup testing for the 2009 season.
“Holy rules written on an Etch-a-Sketch Batman, whatever makes NASCAR think a change is needed?”
“Well Robin, based on the Brainwave Bat-analyzer John Darby, NASCAR’s Sprint Cup director, is looking for a [...]

Two rising stars in NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program, Paulie Harraka and Kristin Bumbera, split Saturday’s twin 75-lap NASCAR late-model features at Roseville’s (CA) All American Speedway.
Harraka, 18, also took home the overall AT&T Rumble at Roseville championship for Antelope’s Bill McAnally Racing.
Bumbera’s victory was the first by a female driver in the diversity program [...]

By way of Doug Demmons we learn Montgomery Motor Speedway may be back in action this year after the speed plants purchase by NCTS driver Rick Crawford.
Contingent on the city of Montgomery, Alabama granting a new license to operate the track Crawford hopes to have the 1/2 mile paved oval in operation this fall and [...]

Here’s a few questions for the trivia masters that I failed to post prior to the weekends event in Sonoma.
1. Why was the primary sponsor of the Marcos Ambrose/Woods Bros #21 Fusion Motorcraft and not the usual Little Debbie Cakes?
2. Who was the first Australian driver to race a Ford at Infineon?
3. What Australian driver [...]

As NASCAR’s “Favorite Son” Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a rather vociferous group of fans that at times take a walk on the wild side - If “wild side” means defenders of all things “Junior,” against all enemies both foreign and domestic, and far from being above floating the latest anti-Jr. conspiracy theory.
But sometimes you just [...]

Well, if NASCAR thought they could quell the bruhaha over drivers speakin’ ze evil about the new car and NASCAR officiating they were only partly right.
They forgot to add to the “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” dictum (more commonly known as the STFU clause) a caveat for talking trash about your [...]

Anyone attending the Sprint Cup event at MIS Sunday spot a strange but vaguely, very vaguely familiar figure talking to Juan Montoya during pre-race festivities?
No?
Guess that’s understandable, unless you’re also an F1 fan. Then you may have caught a glimpse of Toyota’s F1 driver Jarno Trulli talking up his former F1 grid-mates Montoya and Scott [...]

Well, that didn’t take long.
No sooner than a NASCAR led Flying Squad (A Navy term, sorry.) arrive on scene at Kentucky Speedway two NNS officials have been yanked from the jobs and placed on administrative leave.
It’s not known the identities of the two but Joe Balash and Mike Dolan the two highest in pay grade [...]

For the most part those that have a decided dislike - bordering on dementia - for Toyota playing within NASCAR multi-billion dollar playground have lowered their voices and haven’t appeared with the same regularity as they did during the 2007 season.
I’m thinkin’ if the current and latest mega-billion dollar business merger rumored to be in [...]

Within the next few hours Petty Enterprises will announce that Boston Ventures, a private equity firm, has acquired controlling interest in the 60-year-old racing operation which has produced 10 NASCAR champions but struggled to remain competitive the last two decades.
NASCAR’s all-time winningest driver and racing patriarch Richard Petty will remain involved at a high level, [...]

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 [...]

The #7 Robby Gordon Motorsports entry this weekend at Pocono will be sans sponsorship logos.
It’s the first time this year he’s “back in black” and has gone begging via his website for interested individuals or companies to contact the teams Business Development department for an opportunity to sponsor the “top-35 team.”
My first question is, where [...]

One of the ink-stained scribes, whose ink is paid for by the Associated Press, has corralled Scott Riggs for his thoughts on the Haas Racing penalties assessed by NASCAR.
Unsurprisingly Riggs said the severe penalties which included suspensions, fines, docked points and loss of the two cars involved “don’t fit the crime.”
“If it was something [...]

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 [...]

Stan Yee, legendary ARCA late model car owner, passed away over the weekend while vacationing in Las Vegas. He would have been 76 today May 20.
Stan Yee and his brother John, through the Stan Yee’s Collision shop, developed an interest in racing in the 1960s. Initially dabbling in drag racing through an association with Connie [...]

“Garçon, what is the soup de jure?”
“Well sir, the special this week as pictured on the menu at left, is the specialty of NASCAR Nation, at least temporarily, is Crab-Walk Soup de Jure.”
The master chef’s of NASCAR Nation, more often called the categories elite engineers, are fast coming to grips with the new car of [...]