NASCAR

Silly Season Talk, 2011, Episode 1

June 28, 2011

NASCAR Insiders talk Silly Season: With the announcement last week that Red Bull was ceasing its NASCAR operations at the end of the season, the 2011 Silly Season went into full overdrive. While the number of available rides just potentially got cut by one, the number of unanswered questions increased. Can Red Bull find investors? [...]

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Numbers Game

June 19, 2011

The 43.  The 3. The mere mention of those numbers give me the chills.  Two icons of the sport, one retired, the other gone to his reward far too soon.  There’s been occasional conversations to the effect that NASCAR should retire those numbers.  Richard Petty famously claimed that there was no reason to retire the [...]

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Father’s Day NASCAR Trivia

June 19, 2011

This was part of a trivia contest at the local yesterday…I’m sad to report that I got one part of one name and effed it up. I fined myself 10 points in the Championship standings, and $10,000. That’s what that there beera will do. What father out-raced his son to win the Daytona 500, by [...]

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Controversial ending.

June 11, 2011

I headed up to Texas Motor Speedway yesterday morning and arrive just in time for the IRL afternoon practice. I was way up in the stands to stay out of the heat: it was around 95 degrees and the sun was blazing. I was wondering to myself why they would schedule practice in the middle [...]

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Fuel Mileage Races, Love ‘em or Hate ‘em

June 11, 2011

I personally tend to be right down the middle, which basically means I can’t make up my mind. Races that end with cars making a fuel stop with two laps to go can make for a two things in the same race: dullness and excitement. Wow, that’s deep, huh? I understand folks who get fed [...]

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Why Racing?

June 5, 2011

  My name is Devota, I am a race fan from way back: I was into cars before it was OK for a girl to admit she loved auto racing. I have had a website( www.devota.org)   for years. I write about racing, music and life as I see it. I was one of those [...]

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NASCAR on the non-caution Sunday

June 1, 2011

From Jay Hart’s article at Yahoo!, titled Did NASCAR give Junior preferential treatment?: What’s really going on here is that NASCAR officials, even if they won’t admit it outright, are showing that they officiate races differently at the end than they do in the beginning. While drivers might not like it – such as Tony [...]

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Co-Cola 600 2011 — Crazy, Wild-a…wait…

May 29, 2011

I’ll put up a better wrap-up tomorrow morning. For now, though — Charlotte throws another curveball at the end of the race, with DEJr running out of gas in the last turn and Kevin Harvick somehow sneaking his third win. I think NASCAR tried to pull a fast one on Jr’s behalf by not throwing [...]

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Funny Stuff on My Phone, #1

May 29, 2011

Talladega Nights was on at the local watering hole yesterday afternoon, and I made everybody watch it. Of course, the other old guys are in love with Ricky Bobby’s wife, so I googled her up. This was in the browser when I fired it up a minute ago:

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Indy ’11 Race Day Menu

May 29, 2011

I just had a nice bowl of high-fiber cereal, so now I can start thinking about the rest of the day. The probables in the comestibles department are: Hamburgers: grilled outside, thin patty for maximum seasoning surface area, cheapie Walmart buns – toasted, French’s Classic Yellow mustard, chopped fresh onion. Potential for cheeseburgers, as well. [...]

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