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Tony Stewart |
Let’s start off on a serious note. Stewart’s team is still the strongest in the Nextel Cup Series, and it is ironic that he fought with Kenseth earlier this year, considering both Kenseth and Stewart lost their longtime car chiefs over the winter. Neither has missed a beat. |
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Jimmie Johnson |
Report: Knaus seriously considering getting NASCAR on Demand package |
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Matt Kenseth |
The curse of the robot commercial is over. |
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Casey Mears |
E-mail we got two weeks ago: “Casey Mears will win the Auto Club 500, because I dreamt it last night.” Please don’t send e-mails like that. Especially if your name is Mark. |
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Carl Edwards |
Golly. All the girls loved his chest-baring ESPN magazine cover. The cover was direct evidence that Carl has been leasing the exercise equipment that Tony Stewart purchased at the Nextel Cup banquet. |
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Mark Martin |
Quit dominating those truck races! You’re putting too much pressure on David Ragan! |
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Greg Biffle |
Note to TV announcers: Stop calling him “Biff.” Biffs are usually big, bully-type people. You know, like Biff from Back to the Future. If you haven’t seen that movie, it’ll be on TNT three nights in a row. |
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Kasey Kahne |
"Female fans -- they loved those eyes," gushed the Biography Channel's new series on NASCAR drivers, Driven to Win. Now, come on. That didn’t incorporate racing at all. I would have written it like this: “Despite the fact that his Charger didn’t handle well on the intermediate tracks, Kahne was still loved by his fans for his gorgeous eyes.” |
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Ryan Newman |
Sign this boy has too much money: he has a fully-restored 1952 Ford truck. Same type that was on Sanford and Son. Seems like Newman is a big fan of the show. And yes, he could put the truck on the pole at Atlanta Motor Speedway. |
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Jeff Burton |
He is off to a great start this year. Now, all we have to do is get the commentators to appear a little less shocked when he is running fifth. |
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Jeff Gordon |
In other news, someone is named Chip Foose.
Hendrick Motorsports announced that Jeff Gordon will race the Chip Foose-designed DuPont Hot Hues HMS Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS again this season at Indianapolis. |
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Kurt Busch |
You know, it was rumored that Kurt got his ears fixed because Miller wanted a new image. I think it was because he has his 10-year high school reunion coming up. Too bad he doesn’t have Carl Edwards around anymore to whip him into shape. |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
Report: Fans overwhelmingly vote Dale Jr. to new Hall of Fame on first ballot |
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Jamie McMurray |
It wasn’t shown on TV, but when McMurray passed Busch late in the race at Fontana, he held up a flash card that read, “Thanks for this great-handling car.” |
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Kevin Harvick |
Report: Harvick’s wife suspends him for not allowing Burney Lamar back on lead lap in Mexico |
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Brian Vickers |
Poor guy better not ever hope they race a Nextel Cup race in Mexico. That hair would never make it through customs in under an hour. Todd Bodine would have to practice the car for him. |
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Denny Hamlin |
I watched that whole second half of the Mexico Busch race in the sheer hope that they’d put a sombrero on Denny in Victory Lane. They wasted a great photo op. |
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Elliott Sadler |
His friends won $100,000 playing slots at Vegas, which pushed them past Scott Wimmer on the 2006 money list. |
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Kyle Busch |
Kyle Busch on the Mexico accident: "I'll take 100 percent of the blame, but he also should take a little bit of it as well.''
Come on, Kyle. I thought you were good at math!
“It's his home state, it's his hometown, and he had a great race going for himself,'' he said of Jourdain.
Come on, Kyle. I thought you were good at geography! |
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Clint Bowyer |
He hates being called a rookie. He hates the rookie stripe. To torture him, his team puts rookie stripes on everything, which is pretty brave, since Clint looks like a post-steroid Ivan Drago from Rocky IV. Again, if you haven’t seen Rocky IV, it’ll be on TBS before you know it. |
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Dale Jarrett |
The Hall of Fame contract requires NASCAR to keep the Hall of Fame in Charlotte until June 30, 2038, or until Dale Jarrett is 81 years old. |
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Robby Gordon |
Report: IRS pleased that Gordon fixed engine problems |
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Martin Truex Jr. |
Random fact you didn’t know: He has a cousin named Curtis Truex Jr. |
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J.J. Yeley |
All during the Daytona 500 weekend, there was a plane pulling a banner that said “Yea, Yea, J.J.” which obviously set his parents back a few bucks. |
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Jeremy Mayfield |
Report: Riveting Mayfield-Sherman points battle being totally ignored by the media |
