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"Is this the ARCA 200 or the Danica 200? No offense, but geez. There are other drivers and sponsors that need coverage as well."
-Kyle Busch, exibiting first signs of jealousy |
By Carol Einarsson | 02/09/2010 | | | CHEERS to the new and improved RACE DAY built by the Home Depot! Kyle Petty as the middle man is perfect, and guarantees increased viewership. And we like the fuller head of hair on Herman, courtesy of his new transplant.
CHEERS to Hershey’s milk and milkshakes. I wonder how much extra chocolate milk they’ve sold in the past week.
CHEERS to the Clydesdales at the track. Who doesn’t love that? Especially since they’re at Daytona even before their new Super Bowl ad premiers. You saw ‘em here first!
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By Carol Einarsson | 02/05/2010 | | | An excerpt:
CHEERS and Prayers to Lynda Petty. On World Cancer Day, it was announced that she is fighting Central Nervous System Lymphoma. I hope she’s feeling the prayer support from the NASCAR community and that someone is showing her the messages of support. One writer aptly called her “The First Lady of NASCAR, bar none.” Michael Waltrip told Elliott Sadler, “When I lived there, she kept the King from kicking me out for almost a year.” RP is optimistic, as all should be, but prayer is important.
CHEERS to Mike Joy pointing out one car was unharmed in the wreck: Derrike Cope. Undamaged because it’s so far been undriven, but still.
JEERS to Juan Pablo’s sunglasses. If you missed them, picture white 3D glasses that you get at the theater, and that’s what they looked like. And despite it being dark outside, he had them atop his head like he was going to use them again as soon as he was off stage.
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By Carol Einarsson | 02/02/2010 | | | CHEERS to a new “chief appellate officer” for the NASCAR court of appeals. Clearly the former servers of the position needed replacing, and we can only hope the new guy (John Middlebrook, GM exec) has a better head on his shoulders than the bozos that upheld the decision against Carl Long last year.
CHEERS to the cut in purses for NASCAR races. Do the drivers risk personal injury and death, even, to entertain us with races? Yes. But do they do it for the money? No. Sure, it’s nice to be paid well in whatever your chosen field, but ask any guy out there and I bet they’d do it for the trophy and covered expenses. I think 10% is a lot less than it could be cut and there wouldn’t likely be any drivers complaining.
JEERS to El Cajon’s “honor” of their native son, four-time champ Jimmie Johnson. They named a street after him, but the street was ALREADY named Johnson Avenue!
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By Carol Einarsson | 01/28/2010 | | | Well now it seems NASCAR is in the middle of another lawsuit and this one has the potential to blow the sombrero off the ill-conceived "Drive for Diversity" program.
It seems a certain blue-eyed, blond Puerto Rican racer named Michael Rodriguez is suing NASCAR and its program for violating his civil rights when they excluded him from the program built around encouraging minority participation.
Michael says he was referred to as "the poster boy for the Ku-Klux-Klan," and if that happened, we agree it was a wrong choice of words. However, can he really sue for a violation of civil rights when the whole program is built around excluding fair-skinned folks? | Comments: 18 | Last Activity: 02/04/10 | | |
By Carol Einarsson | 01/26/2010 | | | CHEERS to the spoiler. Okay, I know I wasn't exactly rallying around this change before, but I'm finally catching the excitement, especially when I hear that there's going to be a full-field test at Charlotte in March! Are they selling tickets? Will SPEED televise it??
CHEERS to the bigger opening in the restrictor plate, but am I the only one that wonders how much difference 1/64th of an inch can make? Let's just go crazy and have those openings be a whole inch instead of 63/64ths!
JEERS to an injury for Denny Hamlin, and we can't help appreciate the irony that when some teams restrict extra-curricular racing activities of drivers for fear they'll get hurt, something as innocent as basketball (and last year, Frisbee) can affect a whole season. He's reportedly not having surgery on it until after the season? I wonder how many times over the course of 38 races (shootout and dual included) Denny will wince when he pushes that clutch pedal.
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By Carol Einarsson | 01/19/2010 | | | An excerpt:
CHEERS to Robert Yates being recognized by the NMPA, but JEERS to another team being swallowed by "the blob". More and more it seems there are now just five teams: Hendrick, Roush, Childress, Gibbs, and the blob of teams that used to be Petty, Evernham, DEI, Ganassi, and now Yates. Yes, it's Team PEDGY! Okay, maybe since we now have such a catchy name for them, I should say CHEERS instead.
JEERS to the change from wings to spoilers. I know I'm in the minority, but I've never minded the wings. And when I think about a reactionary measure to answer the horrific wrecks we've seen lately, I can't point to the wing as being at fault, so why change it?
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By Carol Einarsson | 01/13/2010 | | |
If you follow RJO on Twitter or know me on Facebook, you've likely already heard the news. Monday afternoon, we had to say goodbye to our beloved Sugar. Despite recent issues she'd had, we were remarkably unprepared for the loss.
It's taken me some time to put into words what Sugar meant to us because I feel so strongly that she was placed into our lives with intent and design. | Comments: 31 | Last Activity: 02/04/10 | | |
By Rob Quillen | 01/07/2010 | | | An excerpt: With each new year, our minds turn to resolutions that we hope will make us better people. We also dream of changes that we think will make our world better. Of course, for many of us, "our world" is one where stock cars go round and round week after week. Here, then, is Rob Quillen's wish list for making NASCAR a better place. 2 – Kurt Busch. I hope 2010 brings you nothing but Karma; sometimes it can be a female dog. 5 – Mark Martin. For you I want a championship and that during the off-season Allan Gustafson steals all of Jimmie Johnson’s cars, paints them yellow, and puts #5 decals on them. 6 – David Ragan. I hope this year is finally the year I don't get you confused with Reagan Smith | Comments: 13 | Last Activity: 01/16/10 | | |
By Carol Einarsson | 01/05/2010 | | | An excerpt:
CHEERS to the final tally of $1.8 million donated by the NASCAR Foundation. And CHEERS to all of the race fans that together contributed more than 10,000 hours of volunteer work. This should have been bigger news.
CHEERS to JJ, AJ, and JPM in the Rolex 24 at Daytona race along with Paul Menard, Jamie McMurray, and Bobby Labonte. CHEERS , also, to the first feeling that the off-season will be over before we know it. Thirty-three cars will be testing at “The Roar Before the Rolex 24.”
| Comments: 18 | Last Activity: 02/04/10 | | |
By Rob Quillen | 12/31/2009 | | | An Excerpt:
During her press conference, Danica said that she wanted to be treated just like the other drivers. She said this while wearing a tight black leather jacket. While I enjoyed it and it matched her amazing long beautiful hair and her stunning eyes that make me melt, and her perfect lipstick that secretly asked me to kiss her, and...um...where was I? What is my point here? Oh yeah, I remember... I can’t imagine Tony Stewart wearing a tight leather jacket at his press conference announcing his start up team and saying, "I just want to be another driver." And for the record, I really don’t want to see Tony Stewart in a tight leather jacket. Ever.
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