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Greg Biffle |
With the 23 wins this season, his crew chief, Doug Richert, is becoming a minor celebrity. You can just imagine the conversations at the shop. Car chief: “Doug, ready to go over the Michigan setup?” Doug: “No man, I have got a commercial shoot and then an autograph signing.” |
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6 |
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Kyle Busch |
The only thing that can slow him down is Sonoma. And harmful UV rays. |
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2 |
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Jimmie Johnson |
Funny thing that happened during Sunday’s race: He asked for a candy bar during one caution, and when he got it, he discovered that someone had already taken a bite out of it. |
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7 |
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Mark Martin |
He had the quote of the day about the tires: "I don't know. They went flat." You don’t say! |
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Jeff Gordon |
He shouldn’t have gone to Wrigley Field a few weeks ago. He’ll never win another title because he’s officially cursed. Before he went to Wrigley: 3 wins, five top-fives, average finish of 14th. After Wrigley: No wins, no top-fives, average finish of 26th. |
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Brian Vickers |
Question asked on Friday: “Brian, do you remember Michael Waltrip’s last pole? Vickers: “No, I don’t. I was in fourth grade.” |
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Elliott Sadler |
He signed a deal last week that will supply him with M&Ms for three more years. Those things are tasty. The over/under on Elliott’s weight in 2008? 275 pounds. And yellow is not a slimming color. |
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Ryan Newman |
Man, he sure does have a lot of fans who don’t appreciate the no-neck jokes. And they don’t like it when you mention the rift with Rusty. Or the 98 poles with no wins. |
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Carl Edwards |
OK, folks, we didn’t make this up. Times the word “flip” was used during the post-race winner’s conference at Pocono: 0. Times the word “flip” was used during the post-race winner’s conference at Atlanta: 6. |
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9 |
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Kurt Busch |
We are starting to get some complaints that we are too mean to Kurt. Last week we got nearly half a dozen emails. Our inbox nearly crashed. |
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Tony Stewart |
So I blew a tire coming back from the airport yesterday, and I didn’t issue a statement to the media, so it felt a lot like Tony Stewart’s Sunday. Except there were no reporters anywhere to be found. Maybe they were still at Dale Jr.’s hauler. |
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Michael Waltrip |
He was pretty funny when he won the pole on Friday: “We haven't qualified very well this year. Our best starting position was 18th. And that was last week at Dover and we got that because it rained.” |
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13 |
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Jamie McMurray |
That Nextel/Herbie commercial has one of the more amazing special effects in recent times: They made McMurray as tall as Elliott Sadler. |
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Kevin Harvick |
He hinted on Saturday that he is staying with Richard Childress Racing for the rest of his career, because he truly appreciates what RCR has done for him. But mainly it saves Delana from having to order new firesuits. |
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14 |
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Jeremy Mayfield |
Adam Sandler wore a Kasey Kahne hat to the MTV Movie Awards, even though Mayfield is a lot closer to his age. Maybe Sandler likes Kahne like a son. |
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Rusty Wallace |
We think that if and when Jamie McMurray becomes his son-in-law, Jamie should change his name to Jamie Wallace. We know that Benny “MacMurray” Parsons would be in favor of such a move. |
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15 |
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Kasey Kahne |
You’ve never lived until you’ve seen 30 media types under the liftgate of Dale Jr.’s hauler, and hearing members of Kasey Kahne’s crew imploring the Dale Jr.’s crew to drop the liftgate. That would be a painful death. |
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Jeff Burton |
Cingular requires him to text-message his adjustments to his crew chief, which is extremely hard to do with driving gloves on. |
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Joe Nemechek |
The weekend was full of funny quotes, and he had his funniest non-Kevin Harvick quote in years: “The only guy I knew who was shifting was Robby Gordon. How did he do today?” Actually, Robby didn’t do too bad. He got mentioned on TV for the second straight week. |
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Sterling Marlin |
He says he hopes to have a solid deal in place by the July Daytona race. Which means that NBC has signed him to become a translator. |
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Dale Jarrett |
He lost the FOX Sexiest Driver Contest by only 0.2 percent to Dale Jr. And a funny story about the voting - we heard that people actually have macros set up to vote for them up to 90 times per hour. Which means their two favorite sites are foxsports.com and eharmony.com. |
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Jeff Green |
Report: Green quoted |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
Yes, there were 30 of us clamoring for Junior’s time after he finished 89th at Pocono and had a top-70 finish for the 10th straight week. I know. We need a life like Dale Jr. needs a win. Which is pretty bad. |
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Matt Kenseth |
He doesn’t have a top-five finish this season. Truly baffling. And sad. |
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23 |
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Bobby Labonte |
Darrell Waltrip joked during the broadcast – it might have been during a commercial – but he said he was going to try to talk to Bobby Labonte during the broadcast, and someone shot back, “You’re more likely to talk to Bobby Allison.” |
