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With the retirement of Humpy Wheeler Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage has become, if not already, the Dean of NASCAR promotional hijinks.

What do some of the NASCAR drivers do when the lights are off at Daytona International Speedway? How about, look for another place to race?

NASCAR does not anticipate suspending any drivers who took their preseason drug tests last week in North Carolina, sanctioning body spokesman Ramsey Poston said today.

Another piece has been placed in the Stewart-Haas Racing puzzle.
Army has deserted DEI (isn’t that a UCMJ offense?) for the #39 Chevy of Ryan Newman for 2009.
IN OTHER NEWS YOU CAN LOSE: AJ Allmendinger speaks. He had committed to MWR for Lowe’s when GEM called for a shot at the #10 ride for the remainder [...]

UPS announced Friday morning what had long been known that it will sponsor Roush-Fenway Racing’s David Ragan next season.
In other news, the moon is not made of green cheese and Hanna Montana is still an over-exposed (in more ways than one) ditz.
There have been several mentions by NASCAR about the new drug policy coming down [...]

So, there’s a change to next year’s Budweiser Shootout format at Daytona.
Instead of it being a race between the previous years race and pole position winners it will pit a field of 24 cars representing the top six teams from Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford and Toyota. The starting line-up will be by determined by a blind [...]

Sam Hornish Jr’s Sprint Cup crew chief Chris Carrier has been shown the garage door of Penske Racing South.
He’s being replaced by Travis Geisler who’s previously been the race engineer for Ryan Newman’s #12 Dodge.
This is kind of a strange move in one sense (unless it’s somehow linked to Newman leaving Penske) Hornish is the [...]

Tony Stewart made it official Friday at MIS, Ryan Newman is his sewcond driver proving even “un-named” sources and “people close to the negotiations” can’t be wrong all the time.

The secret is out, according to the AP at least, they have one of those occasionally correct but generally out-to-lunch persons familiar with the deal saying Ryan Newman is signed by Stewart-Haas Racing with the announcement coming Friday at MIS.

The biggest domino of NASCAR’s free agency season fell when Tony Stewart decided to bolt from Joe Gibbs Racing at the end of the year.

Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman will not drive for Roger Penske’s NASCAR team after this season concludes.
The South Bend, Ind., native and team officials said today via a written statement that they have “mutually agreed” to move in different directions after nine years together.
Newman, who has won 13 races in the No. 12 Alltel Dodge [...]

Ya know how a drop of water sizzles and dances on a skillet coated with a film of oil?
I get the feeling NASCAR driver’s seats are about the same temperature about now. Oh sure, Biffle and Boywer are staying put but at this point they may be two of the few.
Mr. Judd has been ousted [...]

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 [...]

If you’re going to start at the beginning of the showdown in Phoenix you have to start with what NASCAR Nation thought was the greatest injustice since the Heidi Game on November 17, 1968.
(It wasn’t BTW, Boudreaux’s Butt Paste not being a Cup sponsor is butt but that’s a story for another day - ed)
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