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Dec 16 2011 - 4:29pm

REUNITED: ZIPADELLI JOINS STEWART HAAS RACING FOR ‘12

As was reported here in November, Greg Zipadelli is now the Competition Director at Stewart Haas Racing, rejoining friend Tony Stewart and taking a different path through the NASCAR garage.Zipadelli won two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series titles on the box...

Dec 14 2011 - 4:11pm

The Gang's All There

The list of eligible drivers for the 2012 Budweiser Shootout was released today. Among those not on it were...well, I can't really think of any. Jimmy Means, H.B. Bailey, David Pearson, "Mad Marion" McDonald and Jocko Flocko didn't make it, but they're...

Dec 14 2011 - 3:18pm

Silly Season Ramps Up

Baseball has the Hot Stove League, where fans sit around and speculate on whether the local team will be any good the coming year, who to add to make them better and engage in pie-in-the-sky dreaming about the future.For NASCAR fans, it ought to be...

Dec 13 2011 - 4:56pm

If It Happens, This Won't End Well

Paging through the news pages today and came across an item that had me scratching my head.Apparently, Richard Petty Motorsports is thinking about putting Kurt Busch into the King’s No. 43 Ford for 2012.Yeah, I said it. Whether it happens or not is...

Dec 12 2011 - 4:22pm

Wild Man

With the 2011 NASCAR season behind us, it is now time to turn to more mundane matters, like who won the Indy Karting Grand Prix.Sunday’s event, held at the beautiful Conseco Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis, pitted guys like John Andretti, Alex...

Dec 9 2011 - 3:49pm

Shoes Are Dropping...

Well, the movers are moving and the shakers shaking, and it’s all about who races what at Daytona in 2012 and beyond.David Ragan, widely speculated to have the inside track on the No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Dodge that Kurt Busch was summarily dismissed...

Dec 7 2011 - 3:33pm

Oh, Oh...Domino

Van Morrison, who sang the song that is this blog's title today, might be able to figure out how a team that came 15 points from winning a title in 2010 has been blown apart a short year later.I can't.Well, that's not exactly true, but I have a hard...

Dec 7 2011 - 10:18am

What Now?

We go through this every year. The NASCAR season comes to an end and we all sit around looking at each other and wondering what we’ll do for the next 11 weeks.Oh sure, there’s news, like Mike Ford being shown the door at Joe Gibbs Racing and Darian...

Dec 5 2011 - 5:06pm

Kurt Busch's Chickens Come Home to Roost

The other shoe finally dropped Monday on Kurt Busch, and he's no longer the driver of the No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Dodge for Pense Racing.It was sort of a surprise, but it should not have been.Two things that Kurt Busch now knows are true are: you do not...

Dec 2 2011 - 10:59am

What Did We Learn in 2011?

What did the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup season teach us?Many things, not the least of which is that you can expect, every once in a while, that a team and driver will just catch lightning in a bottle and run with it, all the way to the head table...