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Tony Stewart |
OK, so he had a run-in with a fan in the tunnel at Daytona. The other fan, a female, was in a dually pickup truck. See, you can tell she isn’t a real fan. Any real fan in a dually – of all vehicles -- would have seized the moment by crushing Stewart’s little rental car, getting out, and announcing, “Sorry about your little car there, Tony.” |
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Rusty Wallace |
Dang. Fourth-place finish. And that was the latest Rusty had stayed up in 10 years. |
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Greg Biffle |
Aw, Biff. We knew you’d only have the lead a week. |
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Jimmie Johnson |
He says he really wasn’t laughing at Greg Biffle when Biffle slid off course at Sonoma. Maybe he was laughing at how tight Tony Stewart’s firesuit has become. |
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Jeff Gordon |
A fan pointed out last week that Jeff's current female companion is the first one that is not taller than him. |
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Jamie McMurray |
His car looked like Boris Said’s, but that is where the resemblance ends. |
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Elliott Sadler |
Unlike Carl Edwards, he was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Hottest Bachelors with 50 or more Hunting Dogs |
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Mark Martin |
On the pace laps, he asked his spotter who was behind the wheel of the 92 car, and he was told it was Hermie Sadler. Mainly so he can hit up Sadler for Taco Bell coupons. |
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Ryan Newman |
The media never ceases to amaze me. They only focus on Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s struggles to make the Chase, and they failed to even notice that Newman hasn’t won a pole in over two weeks. |
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Carl Edwards |
Funny email we got this week: "On a lighter note, how could People magazine name Carl Edwards as one of the hottest bachelors? Even Elliott Sadler is better looking with that wild hairdo of his! Who's going to be next, Kurt Busch?" |
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Jeremy Mayfield |
That was a pretty sharp Bad News Bears paint scheme. If Mayfield had time, it would have been really funny to see him play Buttermaker, not Billy Bob Thornton. It would kind of be like racing. Mayfield would be paid a lot to cuss a lot. |
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Dale Jarrett |
As y’all know, Daytona has a large catwalk where fans can view the drivers in the Daytona garage. And virtually all of them are screaming at Dale to race the truck. They need have a contest where a fan wins money if they are the millionth person to scream this at Jarrett. You’d have a winner within two weeks. |
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Kurt Busch |
That was pretty cool of Tony Stewart to climb the flagstand at Daytona. We’d like to see Kurt Busch do it after he wins at Bristol. |
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Matt Kenseth |
His cat Lars is obviously featured on Greg Biffle’s new NASCAR Pets calendar. Lars is only an Internet article or two away from being more recognizable than Matt Kenseth himself. |
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Jeff Burton |
The glare from Carl Edwards’ teeth proved to be too much for Burton to handle in Daytona’s tough tri-oval. |
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Kyle Busch |
Dude, you’re only 20 years old, you don’t need a mud mask yet. But Boris Said, 42, went back for seconds. |
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Joe Nemechek |
Everyone was asking on Saturday if the track was dry or not. When a TV reporter walks all the way to the motorhome lot to interview Joe Nemechek for five whole minutes, it’s a pretty good indication that we are not going to see the green flag for a loooong time. |
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Kevin Harvick |
Report: Harvick scowl captured on video |
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Ricky Rudd |
NBC took over the broadcasts last week. Which means we will have to go another nine months before we hear LarryMac say “HiscrewchiefMichaelFatbackMcSwain” in his beautiful, one-syllable prose. |
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Brian Vickers |
Pocono can’t come soon enough. And if you’re ever been to Pocono, that is saying something. |
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Michael Waltrip |
Report: DEI trying to re-sign Waltrip, little sliver of hair on Waltrip’s chin |
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Ken Schrader |
NBC violated a cardinal rule at Daytona. Anytime Ken Schrader gets a top-10, you interview him. But we checked with our sources. Appearantly Allen Bestwick was right there at the No. 49 Dodge to get his thoughts, but he didn’t want to wake Schrader up. |
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Bobby Labonte |
They have run four races at Chicagoland, and our most enduring memory was him slamming the ground in anger after crashing there in 2003. |
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Kasey Kahne |
We saw a fan with a t-shirt that said “Kasey Kahne’s biggest fan,” but she only weighed 120 pounds max, so we doubt the authenticity of her claim. |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
Man, they ran a lot of caution laps at the start of the Pepsi 400. Just think – if Earnhardt Jr. had won the Bud Pole at Daytona, he would have cracked double digits in laps led for the year. |
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